Cost Supervisor

We have an exciting opportunity to join the company as a Cost Supervisor. The main purpose of the role is to provide professional site support services to project teams on site to support effective operational delivery and to be responsible for providing consistent, effective and efficient site support services in accordance with the company policy.

This role is to be based in Cheadle with regular travel to a number of our key UK locations.

Key Accountabilities:

Accurate costing and control of project expenditure, reflected in the timely production of monthly project cost reports
* Interfaces directly with the project staff to ensure projects receive adequate support and guidance from the site support function
* Ensure that site support processes are consistently and rigorously applied across projects in
accordance with all relevant policies
* Management of new starts/ transfers/ timesheet input for weekly paid operatives
* Review accounts transactions processed by Cost Administrators including plant transactions,
catalogue call-offs, material receipt/ GRN processing, invoice processing, PNPO processing, supplier query resolution, and other sundry transactions are accurate.
* Process accounts transactions including plant returns & queries, sundry sales invoices, rent, petty cash, minor value purchases, PNPO processing, supplier query resolution, and other sundry transactions
* Calculating project accruals for CVR
* Assisting with resolution of payroll queries
* Data gathering, recording and reporting for sustainability (CRC, meters, van logs etc)
* Assist with site set-up
* Management of project staff holiday records and timesheets (may change with self-service timesheets)
* Management of project ancillary staff – cleaners, storemen, secretaries.

Profile:

– The individual should have experience of performing a site admin role producing and reporting project cost either on a large site or across multiple sites in a construction environment
– The ability to work with people at various levels both internally within the company and externally and apply and comply with the site support procedures is essential
– This is a position of considerable responsibility involving ordering, receipting, invoice processing and payroll
– A working knowledge of Oracle (or equivalent ERP cost management module) and construction/engineering working rule agreements is desirable
– Numeracy and IT skills: MS Office packages including Excel (intermediate level) are required
– The ability to influence key project stakeholders within the organisation to ensure good practise and a collaborative approach is taken to ensure efficient cost control on the project(s)

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