Senior Cost Manager, Construction Projects

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives.

Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
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Job Description

*Activities might change accordingly.

• Conducting feasibility studies and writing procurement reports;
• Review construction plans and preparing quantity take-offs, along with Contract Preparation and Management
• Prepare and review detailed estimates and cost plans
• Managing estimating and cost planning activities to include taking ownership of and presenting the final cost plan;
• Applying Value Management techniques at the outset of a project and where appropriate involving Turner & Townsend’s specialist Value Management team;
• Managing the procurement process, implementing procurement, and contracting strategies and participate in negotiations ensuring that all stages including pre-qualification, enquiry, analysis, perform bid evaluations and cost negotiations selection and contract preparation are performed effectively and RFPs revisions and evaluation;
• Ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively, documenting any changes in design, and updating budgets;
• Ensuring that cost checking and valuation work is managed effectively;
• Preparing and issuing monthly post-contract cost reports and presenting them to the client;
• Value engineering and life cycle costing, drive value engineering and offer cost insights to support business decisions;
• Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed;
• Establish and maintain professional relationships with external and internal stakeholders, taking a lead role in interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages, and report to senior leadership on current estimated cost vs. budget, and advise managers and clients on improvements and new strategies;
• Where appropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all their assigned tasks and accountabilities;
• Staff management (where appropriate) –Inputting into the formal management of a Cost Manager or small cost management team, to include 1st round recruitment interviews, input into resource management and attendance at junior staff appraisals;
• Knowledge management – Ensuring that key information and lessons learnt are generated from each commission and are included within Turner & Townsend internal database;
• Financial management – Utilizing Financial Management Systems to keep track of the ongoing margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts for each commission;
• Process improvement – Identifying and acting upon ways to improve internal systems and processes;
• Liaise with site managers, clients, contractors, and subcontractors;
• Prepare reports, analyses, contracts, budgets, risk assessment, and other documents;
• Review and approve subcontractor proposals, manage contracts, and change request;
• Review and approve payment applications, monitor invoicing, and ensure payments are accurate and processed in line with the Contract;
• Advise the Project Manager / Client of any forecasted unforeseen cost or over expenditure and proposes corrective actions;
• Travel from the office to various site locations when or if required or be willing to be based on site;
• The Candidate is required to carry out all tasks and obligations in accordance with their professional level and to Turner & Townsend’s quality standards.

Qualifications

• 8- 12 years professional experience related to Cost Management ; 
• Bachelor’s degree in  Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Architecture , or any degree relevant to the position;
• RICS, AACE Certifications/Memberships;
• Fluent in English and Spanish;
• Ability to work under pressure to deliver deadlines;
• Good communication skills and has experience explaining concepts, methodologies and their deliverables to Clients;
• Strong client management, change management and teamwork & team management skills;
• Strong Microsoft skills, specifically excel & PowerPoint, CostX, Knowledge of AutoCAD.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. 

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list or that have not followed due process. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application.

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.