Cost Manager Mep

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we are passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects in over 112 offices in 46 countries worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client focused. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity, and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to work on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

**Job Description**:
The Cost Manager MEP demonstrates a methodical approach and superb interpersonal skills. Outstanding Cost Manager is not only great at analyzing costs, but they also know how to read people and tailor their negotiation strategies to ensure the best possible outcome.
- Assisting on feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
- Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan
- Development of the cost procedures.
- Tendering and procuring, including managing the pre-qualification stage, producing the tender list, putting the preliminaries together, tender analysis, producing the tender report and compiling the contractual documents
- Dealing effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes, where applicable referring major changes to line manager
- Review and approve subcontractor proposals, manage contracts, and change requests.
- Taking personal responsibility for making cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects and in all cases ensuring that timely and accurate cost checking and valuation takes place
- Analyze the project budget, monitor expenditure and costs against delivered products and services.
- Report the progress at regular intervals with the Senior Cost Manager, and manage communications with all stakeholders until project delivery and financial close out, producing monthly post contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
- Review monthly reports as presented by Contractor, and present to the Senior Cost Manager and Client
- Value engineering
- Negotiating and agreeing final accounts
- Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages
- Where appropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all of the above accountabilities
- Financial management -Utilizing Financial Management Systems to keep track of the ongoing margin levels
- Process improvement -Identifying ways in which internal systems and processes can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager
- Knowledge management -Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each commission is input into the Turner & Townsend internal database: share systemized lessons learned
- The job holder is required to carry out all tasks within his/her level of skill and ability.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor´s Degree in Quantity Surveying, **Architecture, Civil - Mechanical Engineering or related**:

- Professional experience in Cost Management in MEP area (Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing).
- High degree of accuracy and local market cost knowledge
- ** Fluent English & Spanish**:

- RICS,” preferable”
- AACE CCP, CCT” preferable”

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._
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