Senior Cost Manager

Senior Cost Manager

Turner & Townsend Heery is looking for an experienced Senior Cost Manager and/or Quantity Surveyor to act as the key, day to day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met through the delivery of a value-added cost management service.

To be successful in this role you must have great communication skills and be comfortable operating in a client-facing role. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, driven, and able to work independently as well as part of a team. In this significant position, you will be responsible for providing leadership and direction, embedding, and promoting the purpose, values, and vision of Turner & Townsend Heery.

Responsibilities include estimating and negotiating change orders throughout the construction lifecycle, providing estimate and cost planning, reviewing and participating with the design services team and general contractor in the development of cost estimates, reconciling changes and assisting the general contractor to ensure that their data is accurate, communicating or meeting with the general contractor and owner/project manager to gather status information to prepare a cost estimate update, preparing written comments to the general contractor's submissions, including the executive summary, coordinating all sources of cost information for cost discussions and suppliers direct from National Purchasing Agreements with subconsultants as well as quantities from design firms, informing and driving engineering priorities based on cost impact, working proactively with minimal supervision to resolve scheduling issues, managing cost checks and carrying out estimates and cost assessments on larger projects, participating effectively with post-contract cost variances and the change of control processes, managing cost impact/contingency management and commitment tracking logs, preparing funding data presentations and coordinating Value Engineering sessions with stakeholders, developing cost plans and estimates through the design phase, delivering updated cost plans at appropriate design milestones, providing commercial input to design optioneering and input into value engineering exercises, reviewing contractor and subcontractor pricing and leading negotiations on behalf of the client to drive fair contract prices, performing quantity surveying, cost controls, and change management activities throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively, ensuring that cost auditing and valuation work is managed effectively and that a robust process for cost validation is in place, carrying out the production of monthly cost reports for presentation to the client, ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed upon in a timely manner, compiling built cost estimate records for benchmarking purposes, identifying, coaching and mentoring talent to realize their potential and celebrate the success of others, displaying excellence in leadership and service delivery on commissions in line with the conditions of appointment, financial management utilizing internal software to track ongoing margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts for each commission and financial reports, implementing and maintaining the use of internal Business Management Systems and company delivery methodologies and tools in the office to ensure consistent delivery of best practice for clients and the company, being a role model that drives a one business culture that achieves great outcomes by striking the right balance for our people, clients, stakeholders, and society, and SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Project/Program specifications/Business line requirements include working independently while being part of the larger team focused on providing quality services while maximizing the client's investment, market sector experience with a focus on the Life Sciences market and experience with pharmaceutical companies is a plus, software specific requirements including expertise with the Microsoft suite of products and experience with estimating software and Project Management Information Systems is desired.

Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction, minimum 5-7 years of relevant experience working in a cost management role in the construction industry, bilingual in English and Spanish required, professional accredited or working towards it is preferred, experience of leading cost management on medium or large sized construction projects of medium to high complexity, construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred, good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management, and value engineering, and excellent communication skills.

Additional information includes on-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs, 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, 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 we do not pay any fees in relation to our recruitment process.