Cost Engineer

Job Description

Role and Opportunity Summary

Vattenfall Heat UK is looking for a Cost Engineer to join our UK based Asset Operations and Performance team.

Vattenfall's Heat UK business is rapidly growing and has been successful in securing large district heating and cooling network opportunities in London and Scotland. Our portfolio includes both heat and cooling to customers on projects from 2,000 homes up to 20,000 homes. Our solutions deliver zero carbon heating and include heat from Energy from Waste, large scale heat pumps and integration of other available waste heat sources. This is an exciting opportunity to drive the development of new zero carbon solutions for large scale developments and key strategic areas.

Vattenfall has extensive experience in operating heat networks across Europe, where we serve 2.2 million heat customers and this role will be working closely with colleagues across the company to bring best practice to the UK.

We are looking for a Cost Engineer who is passionate about and experienced in delivering zero carbon heating solutions in the built environment. The Cost Engineer shall own the basis of costing for our district heating projects and build a centre of excellence in costing. The role shall include engagement with the supply chain, management of cost books, training and supporting the project teams in costing methodologies and best practice.

To be successful in this role, the candidate will have a strong understanding of district heat networks, low carbon heat technologies, existing relationships with the key suppliers in the market, awareness of market trends, and strong track record in technical costing. The Cost Engineer will be one of the key technical team members who will drive excellence in all aspects of cost. You will work closely with Commercial Managers, Procurement Managers and other engineering team members.

Responsibilities

· Develop and maintain a centre of excellence on costing.

· Accountable for the development and maintenance of a cost book and ownership of cost assumptions.

· Engage with the market to regularly benchmark and track costs of key equipment.

· Collate and act as a point of contact for all market pricing received on projects.

· Act as the key resource to review cost on bids (CAPEX/OPEX and REPEX).

· Asset Management inputs into annual portfolio valuation and business planning processes.

· Work as part of project development teams to develop cost estimates.

· Train and develop the skills of the team in cost estimation techniques (Laing Factors, Scaling, Etc)

· Provide industry leadership in driving down the cost of zero carbon solutions and drive innovation in our projects.

· Manage stakeholders including supplier relationships.

Qualifications

Qualifications and Experience

· Demonstrable experience in costing on technical mechanical and electrical projects.

· Excellent understanding of heating and cooling networks. (suppliers, technologies and market trends).

· Existing relationships with key suppliers in the UK market for district heating products and solutions.

· Excellent understanding of cost assumptions and impact on technical solution development.

· Practical experience in the design and delivery of district heating projects, including Energy Centres, secondary network and HIUs.

· In depth knowledge of cost engineering, tools, processes and best practice.

· Awareness of public procurement regulation and how this informs supplier engagement.

Profile and skills

· Passionate about delivering zero carbon solutions in energy.

· You are willing to voluntarily adapt your own attitude and views to changing circumstances and quick to learn new skills.

· Inspire and motivate those around you to deliver high quality.

· High performing individual, self-starter that has ability to work under pressure and lead a team through challenging projects (timescales, uncertainty and other complexity).

· Excellent communications skills and ability to adjust the communication style to achieve the desired outcome, whether it is speaking to the client, management team or your team member.

· Brave to challenge existing industry norms, drive engineering excellence and lead innovation.

· Energetic and dynamic but yet a team player that helps everyone else to be better at what they do.

· Entrepreneurial and creative in approaching and solving problems - comfortable setting up new processes from scratch and not waiting to be told how.

· Ability to work through uncertainty.

· Excellent project management skills and ability to prioritise.

· Not shy to have difficult conversations and challenge peers (internal or external stakeholders) in order to achieve the right goal.

· Provide positive challenge and pleasant working environment for the team.

Additional Information

Our offer
Good remuneration, a challenging and international work environment, and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development.

More Information
We welcome your application in English, no later than 26/04/2024. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website.

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Adam Hammond - adam.hammond@vattenfall.com

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, Validata.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Company Description

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people's homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.

· Demonstrable experience in costing on technical mechanical and electrical projects.

· Excellent understanding of heating and cooling networks. (suppliers, technologies and market trends).

· Existing relationships with key suppliers in the UK market for district heating products and solutions.

· Excellent understanding of cost assumptions and impact on technical solution development.

· Practical experience in the design and delivery of district heating projects, including Energy Centres, secondary network and HIUs.

· In depth knowledge of cost engineering, tools, processes and best practice.

· Awareness of public procurement regulation and how this informs supplier engagement.

Profile and skills

· Passionate about delivering zero carbon solutions in energy.

· You are willing to voluntarily adapt your own attitude and views to changing circumstances and quick to learn new skills.

· Inspire and motivate those around you to deliver high quality.

· High performing individual, self-starter that has ability to work under pressure and lead a team through challenging projects (timescales, uncertainty and other complexity).

· Excellent communications skills and ability to adjust the communication style to achieve the desired outcome, whether it is speaking to the client, management team or your team member.

· Brave to challenge existing industry norms, drive engineering excellence and lead innovation.

· Energetic and dynamic but yet a team player that helps everyone else to be better at what they do.

· Entrepreneurial and creative in approaching and solving problems - comfortable setting up new processes from scratch and not waiting to be told how.

· Ability to work through uncertainty.

· Excellent project management skills and ability to prioritise.

· Not shy to have difficult conversations and challenge peers (internal or external stakeholders) in order to achieve the right goal.

· Provide positive challenge and pleasant working environment for the team.

Vattenfall Heat UK is looking for a Cost Engineer to join our UK based Asset Operations and Performance team.

Vattenfall's Heat UK business is rapidly growing and has been successful in securing large district heating and cooling network opportunities in London and Scotland. Our portfolio includes both heat and cooling to customers on projects from 2,000 homes up to 20,000 homes. Our solutions deliver zero carbon heating and include heat from Energy from Waste, large scale heat pumps and integration of other available waste heat sources. This is an exciting opportunity to drive the development of new zero carbon solutions for large scale developments and key strategic areas.

Vattenfall has extensive experience in operating heat networks across Europe, where we serve 2.2 million heat customers and this role will be working closely with colleagues across the company to bring best practice to the UK., At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, Validata., Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people's homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.

Good remuneration, a challenging and international work environment, and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development.