Assistant 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

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Working with Cost Manager to manage commercial aspects of projects in several sectors. Responsible for support and assistance to manage budget and to control project costs. Involved throughout but more heavily during estimation points and procurement phase. Also involved with change control during execution.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Prepare estimations according to all design phase.
• Monitor, control and prepare Valuations
• Participate to value engineering sessions
• Prepare and analyse change orders
• Develop the primary project budget
• Develop progress measurement criteria with vendors
• Collect cost market data
• Support quotation process responding to the questions of services/materials proponents
• Produce cash flow forecasts for internal and client purposes
• Quantify materials and labour for all phases of a project.
• Prepare Cost benefit analysis
• Review project budget after design packages issuance by the technical team
• Collaborate with the creation of the recommendation report
• Participate in the weekly project and departmental meetings
• Issue weekly progress reports on project costs including forecasting reimbursable expenses

Qualifications

• Degree-qualified or equivalent in Quantity Surveyor, Engineering, Architecture.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in similar roles.
• Knowledge and understanding of the component parts of a project and overall construction costs
• Ability to analyses and interpret commercial and technical project documentation
• Ability to use a range of IT packages including Microsoft Office
• Exceptional relationship building skills
• Self-motivated and proactive
• Commercial awareness and understanding of the Construction process
• Excellent communication skills, both oral & written
• Negotiation skills and ability to apply those skills internally, externally & with our supply chain.
• Positive attitude at all times and the ability to integrate and play active part in the Construction Team
• Good organizational skills and the ability to priorities to meet deadlines
• Keen to pursue personal development needs and maintain up-to-date knowledge
• Working towards RICS membership or recently chartered
• Conversant in all aspects of quantity surveying
• Experience in utilizing software systems e.g. CostX, CATO, BIM Measure
• Experience in utilizing Excel advance level
• Experience in utilizing AutoCAD.
• Fluent in English, written and spoken.

Additional Information

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.

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV's that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list or that have not followed due process. Any speculative or unsolicited CV's will be treated as a direct application.

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.