Cost Manager - Industrial and Data Center Construction Project

Company Description  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   This role will be responsible for managing costs, budgets, and financial planning to ensure project efficiency while maintaining high-quality standards
Responsibilities will include, among others:
Conducting feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
Applying Value Management techniques at the outset of a project and where appropriate involving Turner & Townsend’s specialist Value Management team
Managing estimating and cost planning activities to include taking ownership of and presenting the final cost plan
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
Ensuring the production of 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 the above 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 learned generated from each commission is input into the Turner & Townsend internal database
Financial management –Utilising 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
Review construction plans and preparing quantity take-offs, along with Contract Preparation and Management
Prepare and review detailed estimates and cost plans
Liaise with site managers, clients, contractors, and subcontractors
Prepare reports, analyses, contracts, budgets, risk assessment, and other documents.
Development of the cost procedures
Review and approve subcontractor proposals, manage contracts, and change request
Review and approve payment applications, monitor invoicing, and ensure payments are in order
Advise the Project Manager of any foreseen cost over expenditure and proposes corrective actions
Review monthly reports as presented by Contractor, and present to the Client
Travel from the office to various sites as required…