Cost Engineer
PR/079282
Posted: 25/09/2025
Location: Berkshire, UK (Hybrid: 2 days in office, 3 days WFH)
Employment Type: Permanent, Full-time
About the Role My client, a leading renewable energy business, is seeking a Cost Engineer to join their dynamic team. This role will play a key part in supporting the financial management of solar and energy projects, ensuring cost efficiency, accuracy, and compliance throughout the project lifecycle.
You will collaborate with project managers, engineers, and finance teams to provide robust cost control, forecasting, and reporting, helping to drive the successful delivery of large-scale renewable projects.
Key Responsibilities
What’s on Offer
For further information about this position please apply.
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
- £52000 - £56000 per annum
- England, South East, Berkshire, Reading
- Permanent
Location: Berkshire, UK (Hybrid: 2 days in office, 3 days WFH)
Employment Type: Permanent, Full-time
About the Role My client, a leading renewable energy business, is seeking a Cost Engineer to join their dynamic team. This role will play a key part in supporting the financial management of solar and energy projects, ensuring cost efficiency, accuracy, and compliance throughout the project lifecycle.
You will collaborate with project managers, engineers, and finance teams to provide robust cost control, forecasting, and reporting, helping to drive the successful delivery of large-scale renewable projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare, monitor, and maintain project cost reports and forecasts.
- Track actual costs against budgets, highlighting variances and providing analysis to project stakeholders.
- Support project teams in developing cost estimates for new and ongoing projects.
- Ensure compliance with internal cost management processes and procedures.
- Assist in the preparation of monthly project reviews, cash flow forecasts, and performance reports.
- Work closely with procurement and commercial teams to monitor contractor and supplier costs.
- Provide recommendations to improve cost efficiency and identify potential risks or savings opportunities.
- Proven experience as a Cost Engineer, Cost Controller, or similar role in engineering, energy, or infrastructure projects.
- Strong analytical and numerical skills with excellent attention to detail.
- Proficiency in cost management tools, and Microsoft Excel.
- Understanding of project management principles and the financial aspects of engineering projects.
- Ability to communicate complex financial information clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong organisational skills and ability to work to tight deadlines.
What’s on Offer
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Hybrid working model (2 days in the Berkshire office, 3 days WFH).
- Opportunity to play a key role in the delivery of pioneering renewable energy projects in the UK.
- Supportive and collaborative working environment with clear career progression opportunities.
For further information about this position please apply.
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Ian Hunter
Principal Recruitment Consultant
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