Senior Cost Manager

Title: Senior Cost Manager

Reporting to: Office Director

Salary Range: $105,500 - $140,500

Overview of Role
The Senior Cost Manager is responsible for managing project costs across all stages of construction, ensuring effective cost control, accurate reporting, and strong client collaboration. The successful candidate will bring solid experience in construction cost management and the ability to lead cost planning and commercial activities on a range of project types. The Senior Cost Manager should have the ability to identify opportunities within a project that will add value and help successfully accomplish the client's desired project outcome.

Truth. Trust. Together. Tomorrow.

At RLB, we speak the truth, build for the long term, look out for each other and work to do good. We are driven by outcomes, creating tailored solutions that deliver successful projects. We believe that when we bring together the right people doing things the right way, we make progress for our clients and our communities.

RLB is an award-winning international firm, known for providing property and construction consultancy advice at all stages of the construction cycle. Utilizing its many years of experience and professionally trained employees, RLB continues to firmly establish itself as one of the major players in the construction industry throughout the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania. Our employees are involved in a variety of projects across a range of sectors, from sports arenas and healthcare to higher education and convention centers.

As a privately held company, we hire the best people, give them exceptional training, and provide extensive opportunities for professional growth while working on exciting projects while providing an excellent compensation and benefits package.
Essential Functions

• Prepare and manage detailed quantity take-offs and cost estimates based on drawings and specifications.

• Review construction plans and specifications during preconstruction to complete quantity take-offs and prepare estimates for all architectural, structural, and civil scopes from schematic through final design for new construction and renovation projects

• Prepare value engineering, cost option and cost strategy estimates

• Prepare independent post contract estimates, including reporting differences in scope, quantities, and pricing from contractor's estimate

• Work as integral part of our Estimating Team to perform plan and specification analysis, takeoff, and pricing of various types of construction projects

• Acts as lead individual for specific projects

• Review estimates prepared by Estimating Team, prior to supervisor final review

• Compiles and analyzes data on all factors that influence costs, such as material, labor, equipment, and profit margins

• Evaluates cost estimating deliverables prepared by architects and engineers, for cost containment

• Acquires and evaluates historical and vendor cost data for the development of cost estimates and price recommendations

• Accurately forecasts costs of future projects and changes to existing projects

• Prepares technical evaluations, cost estimating draft reports, memos, and letters and presents recommendations to management and client

• Attend client meetings

• Participate in design charrettes and design workshops, including presenting estimates to the client and AE team

• Participate in Value Engineering studies, reconciliations, and negotiations with contractors

• Prepare valuations of work in progress reports from contractor draw requests

• Undertake other cost-related tasks as directed by supervisor, including review of estimates prepared by others

• Assist with training and mentoring others

• Contributes to team performance by collaboration and effective communication.

• Contributes to and understands the clients desired project outcomes, identifies opportunities to add value to accomplish the desired outcomes.

• Adds to team effort by accomplishing other duties as assigned.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate a positive proactive approach to the role and will be committed to delivering customer service excellence.

• Minimum Education (or substitute…