Senior Cost Manager - Data Center Construction

Turner & Townsend’s contributions help shape the built environment, impacting and evolving the way people live, work and travel. With a heritage rooted in cost, commercial and project management we have a deep and tacit understanding of capital programmes and apply this expertise to drive industry best practice and innovation.

Our Purpose is making the difference: transforming performance for a green, inclusive, and productive world. This Purpose is grounded in the belief that we work in an industry that has the potential to transform lives, whether by helping to tackle the climate agenda or levelling up society through improved infrastructure. We can lead by transforming performance, delivering for our clients at scale and speed, raising standards and making a difference.

Globally, we operate 113 offices in 45 countries with over 11,000 colleagues.

Job Description

You will have Cost Management experience, and may have worked on major construction projects in the Chemicals, Industrial, Manufacturing, Data Centers or Pharma sectors. You will either specialize in pre-contract cost planning and estimating activities or post-contract commercial management and will bring your practical expertise and best practice experience and be comfortable operating in a client-facing role, leading project teams, and managing difficult stakeholders.

Key Activities:

• Provide estimate and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
• Ability to estimate at conceptual, programming and detailed level.
• Assist on feasibility studies and writing procurement reports.
• Perform all aspects of procurement, including managing the pre-qualification stage, producing bid list, bid analyses, producing bid reports, and compiling contractual documents.
• Participate effectively with post-contract cost variances and the change control processes, where applicable refer major changes to line manager.
• Undertake cost checks and carry out valuations on larger projects, and ensure timely and accurate cost checking, and valuation process.
• Produce monthly post-contract cost reports.
• Provide input into value engineering; negotiate and approve final accounts.
• Maintain liaison with clients and other consultants at all project stages.
• Identify improvements for cost management procedures, templates, and products, and refer ideas to the appropriate line manager.

Your qualifications and experience:

• Good technical experience in all cost management areas; pre-contract, post contract and final account.
• Good understanding of all mechanical, process, electrical, and plumbing systems, as they relate to construction of projects and/or 
• Good understanding of all civils, structural and architectural aspects as they relate to construction of projects
• Experience of undertaking cost management on medium or large sized construction projects of medium to high complexity.
• Experience with advising clients on value management, value engineering, and life cycle costing.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering.
• Demonstrates excellent presentation, verbal, written, and communication skills.
• Great organizational skills; ability to multi-task and be a team player.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years’ Cost Management experience.
• Experience in commercial, data center, high-tech, healthcare, manufacturing Industries preferred.

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.

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