Assistant Cost Manager

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

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 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.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a talented Assistant Cost Manager to join its expanding Project Controls team, supporting major rail and linear infrastructure programs across Ontario. This pivotal role leads cost governance throughout both the design and construction phases, driving robust forecasting, earned value reporting, and effective change control processes. The Assistant Cost Manager will operate within a small team in preparing detailed cost reports for senior management, provides expert advice on budget variances, and delivers reliable estimates for costs to complete. Close collaboration with scheduling, engineering, procurement, and commercial teams is essential to ensure integrated project performance and proactively identify opportunities to optimize value and mitigate risk. This position offers the chance to contribute to the delivery of transformative infrastructure projects within a fast-paced and innovative environment.

Role accountabilities:

In this role, you will establish and maintain the project cost baseline throughout both the design and construction phases, ensuring rigorous management of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), project coding, and integration of actual costs, commitments, accruals, and cash flow data. You will be responsible for leading Earned Value Management (EVM) processes, including conducting CPI/SPI analysis, preparing variance reports, and delivering monthly performance summaries. Your expertise will be critical in recommending corrective actions to maintain project objectives and financial targets.

You will prepare and deliver detailed cost reports and dashboards for senior leadership, providing clear visibility into trends, risks, and mitigation strategies. Working with the wider Project Controls team on managing change control processes will be a key aspect of your responsibilities, as you log, quantify, and validate change requests and claims. This will include updating forecasts, maintaining comprehensive change logs, and coordinating pricing and cost/schedule impact assessments to ensure all project changes are accurately captured and managed.

Collaboration is essential in this role; you will work closely with schedulers using Primavera P6 to align cost and schedule data for precise progress measurement and forecasting. Additionally, you will support commercial teams by reviewing payment applications, assessing subcontractor claims, and contributing to negotiations and the finalization of accounts, helping to safeguard project financial interests.

As a member within the Project Controls team, you will identify and resolve project control issues, working collaboratively with other team members to propose effective solutions.

Qualifications & Experience:

• 2-3 years’ experience in cost management, quantity surveying, or project controls on large infrastructure projects (rail/transit preferred)
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, or related discipline
• Proficiency with Oracle ERP or similar financial systems, and advanced Excel; experience with Power BI or similar tools is an asset
• Knowledge of scheduling software (Primavera P6) and ability to assess cost and schedule impacts of design or construction changes
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and accuracy
• Proven ability to work in a collaborative team environment, demonstrating excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Familiarity with Earned Value Management, change control, and risk management frameworks
• Experience working in an alliance contract environment beneficial

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 are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

The salary range for this position is $64,000 - $97,000. The base salary represents Arcadis’ hiring range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as location, skills, experience, and qualification for the role.