Job Description

About Us:

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

As a Senior Cost Consultant in the Residential sector, you’ll deliver cost and commercial management for medium to large projects, collaborating with clients, consultants, and teams to ensure projects meet budget, time, and quality goals. We are seeking a technically skilled leader who is passionate about mentoring others and driving innovation in cost management.

Role accountabilities:

• Manage cost planning and delivery for medium to large projects, ensuring alignment with controls and quality standards
• Support and mentor team members to build capability and share best practice
• Take ownership of key project elements, manage resources, and meet deadlines
• Identify and escalate project risks, providing recommendations to ensure successful outcomes
• Analyse data and documents to inform cost management decisions and drive service improvement
• Collaborate across teams and with clients, sharing technical advice and ensuring satisfaction
• Apply industry best practices and contribute to process innovation
• Build strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, supporting business growth

Qualifications & Experience:

• Proven cost management experience, ideally in residential projects
• Strong leadership and mentoring abilities
• Able to manage projects from inception to completion
• Skilled in CostX or similar software
• Degree-qualified with relevant professional/chartered status
• CSCS card holder
• Demonstrable ability to build and maintain relationships with clients and external stakeholders.
• Experience working within multi-disciplinary teams to deliver complex projects.
• Familiarity with current industry standards, regulations, and best practices.

Ready to make an impact? Join Arcadis and help set new standards in residential cost management.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy. Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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