Senior Cost Manager

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

• Possesses cost management experience in Data Centre space
• Responsible for total cost management of projects delivering positive outcomes for our clients, demonstrating leadership and coaching to Graduate CM, and innovation of service and knowledge.
• Carry out cost management and contract administration duties with reasonable supervision and guidance
• Lead Cost Manager for new built project
• Provide Cost Advice and Cost Planning including estimate, comparative design studies, life cycle costing, turnover/cash flow projections, cost control and cost report during pre-contract period.
• Responsibility for making cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects and in all cases ensuring that timely and accurate cost checking and valuation takes place
• To run the procurement process from all stages in pre-qualification such as quotation enquiry, analysis, selection and contract preparation
• Provide Documentation including Tender Document, Tender Report, Pre-contract correspondence, LOA and contract documents.
• Monitor and verifying VO, Claims, Payment, Final Account and attending project meetings. Produce monthly cost reports.
• Knowledge management – Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each commission is input into the internal database
• Process improvement – Identifying ways in which internal systems and processes can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager
• Provide CM role pro-actively and professionally and interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages

Qualifications

• Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor's Degree of Quantity Surveying or equivalent with minimum 8-10 years' experience in related fields. Registered with Board of Surveyor, member of RISM and RICS or Bachelor's Degree of Quantity Surveying or equivalent with minimum 15 years' experience in related fields.
• Excellent technical knowledge and experience across the full range of Cost Management duties including: Cost Estimates, Bills of Quantities, Value Engineering, Tendering and Evaluation, Contract Knowledge, Change Orders and Final Account close-out
• Candidates with experience in High tech manufacturing / life sciences project industrial, data centers, infrastructure, retail fit out, mixed development, public sector, and corporate end user/ banking/office experience are preferred.
• Experience from consultancy background, well versed in civil, structure, and architecture (CSA).
• Team player with excellent leadership and problem solving skills
• English language skills are required and excellent communication skills

Additional Information

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