Senior Cost Expert

22 Minutes ago โ€ข 10 Years +
Financial Analysis

Job Description

As a Senior Cost Expert at Strukton, you play a crucial role in complex civil projects, from initial feasibility to successful realization. You translate intricate designs and market knowledge into competitive cost prices, understanding client needs to develop smart, sustainable solutions. You lead teams in preparing and defending cost estimates for large tenders (5-100 million euros), acting as a key sparring partner. You stay current with infrastructure developments and innovations, actively sharing knowledge to secure winning bids and future-proof solutions.
Good To Have:
  • HBO working and thinking level, preferably with an educational background in Civil Engineering or Architecture.
Must Have:
  • Act independently and with integrity, handling confidential data and making fair, substantiated price estimates.
  • Strong analytical skills and accuracy to understand complex client questions and translate them into feasible and competitive offers.
  • Persuasive ability to defend cost prices effectively.
  • Sharp eye for progress and risks to guide the team towards a timely and complete bid.
  • Minimum 10 years of experience with independently estimating (multidisciplinary) projects.
  • Thorough knowledge of the market, different contract forms, and construction team processes.
  • Experience with calculation software such as IBIS Calculeren.
Perks:
  • Open, informal, motivating, and challenging work environment.
  • High level of responsibility and freedom to work autonomously.
  • Opportunities for personal and professional development through various training and courses.
  • Excellent employment conditions with an attractive market-conform salary paid every 4 weeks.
  • Good pension scheme with employer contribution.
  • Collective health insurance.
  • Lease car.
  • 43 vacation days per year.

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Company Description

As a Senior Cost Expert at Strukton, you play a crucial role in our most integral and technically challenging civil projects. Whether it concerns the renovation of railway and road tunnels, movable bridges, large locks, or station projects where civil engineering, technical installations, construction, and rail come together. You ensure control over the technology and the price. This from the first feasibility study up to and including the winning bid + realization.

You see through complex designs, know the market inside out, and know how to translate technical choices into a substantiated and competitive cost price.

You are the one who understands the question behind the question and translates it into smart, sustainable, and feasible solutions. You thoroughly calculate customer questions and draw up a sharply priced offer. You always take into account contract conditions, functional requirements, and execution opportunities.

You are involved in larger tenders and construction teams of 5 to 100 million euros, where you lead the team to prepare a timely and complete cost price. You also defend this with conviction, as a sparring partner for the project manager and discussion partner for the client and construction partner.

As a specialist, you are also constantly aware of the latest developments in infrastructure, cost price strategies, and sustainable innovations. You actively share your knowledge within the team and build strong relationships (internal and external) with your network. In this way, together with colleagues, you ensure winning price offers and impactful solutions that are ready for the future.

Job Description

Strukton Infra Specials (SIS) develops and realizes complex infrastructure projects within the fields of rail-civil, tunnels, and hydraulic engineering. We specialize in project management and multidisciplinary collaboration. Our projects include the energy-neutral Delft Campus Station, the renovation of Amsterdam Central Station, and the technical realization and maintenance of the Hubertustunnel in The Hague. In addition, we work on water safety projects such as Nieuwe Werken Zoutkamp and play a key role in the renovation and replacement of existing civil structures in the Netherlands.

We work circularly and extend the lifespan, with an eye for climate change and scarcity of raw materials. Thanks to more than 100 years of experience, we combine craftsmanship and innovation with a human- and customer-oriented approach. Our project teams work closely together in an open, informal atmosphere. Quality, sustainability, and job satisfaction are central, and we regularly organize meetings to share knowledge and connect colleagues.

As a Senior Cost Expert, you are part of the Market and Acquisition department, where you work daily with 2 other Cost Experts on smart and reliable cost control during various projects. From the planning phase / tender to realization. Within the team, collaboration is highly valued. By continuously sharing our experiences, strategies, and lessons learned, we elevate each other to a higher level and together increase our chances of success.

Job Requirements

As a Senior Cost Expert, it is essential that you act independently and with integrity, because you work with confidential data and make fair, substantiated price estimates. You are analytically strong and accurate, so that you can understand complex client questions and translate them into feasible and competitive offers. Thanks to your persuasiveness, you know how to defend the cost price well, and with a sharp eye for progress and risks, you guide the team towards a timely and complete bid. In this way, you provide a reliable basis for technically and commercially successful projects.

Furthermore, you have:

  • HBO working and thinking level (preferably with an educational background in Civil Engineering or Architecture);
  • Minimum 10 years of experience with independently estimating (multidisciplinary) projects;
  • Thorough knowledge of the market, different contract forms, and construction team processes;
  • Experience with calculation software such as IBIS Calculeren.

Additional Information

The atmosphere at Strukton is open, informal, motivating, and challenging. A work environment where everyone gets the most out of themselves and out of the work for the customer. You get a lot of responsibilities and the freedom to work autonomously. Because we consider your personal and professional development important, we offer the opportunity to ensure that you remain successful through various training and courses.

Those who deliver good work are well rewarded. That is our starting point. That is why we offer you excellent employment conditions with an attractive market-conform salary every 4 weeks, depending on your experience. You will receive a good pension scheme with employer contribution, collective health insurance, a lease car, and 43 vacation days per year.

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