Senior Cost Manager - Utilities (Data Centre Construction)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 15, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 4, 2026.
Overview
As a Senior Cost Manager - Utilities at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.
The Opportunity
In this role you will:
- Actively participate in the tender/bid process--from initial tender/bid documentation through analysis and reporting
- Assist in drafting new commercial, variations and contractual correspondence
- Manage the Contract and Purchase Order approvals process and take ownership of tracking and communication of approvals to internal and external stakeholders to ensure the process is facilitated efficiently and effectively
- Oversee project spend by creating valuations and cost reports, and clearly communicate variations to your team
- Manage contract lifecycle, coordinate payments to ensure payment with contract payment terms and assist in reporting of key contract metrics
- Support nimble project management and clear decisions through excellent cost documentation and timely communication
We would love to hear from you if you:
- Have successfully supported projects in a commercial or commercial role in a complex construction or development environment, specifically in utilities or in the data centre sector
- Have experience in pre- and post-contract cost management on varied projects
- Have a degree or comparable experience in a related construction discipline
- Are an excellent communicator verbally and in writing
- Love a dynamic environment with the opportunity to manage your own priorities and deadlines
- Thrive on building strong relationships with your team and clients through a shared purpose and sense of openness and fun
All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.
About us
Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!
Diversity, inclusion and accessibility
Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!