Assistant Cost Manager, Real Estate Construction Projects

**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.- Activities might change accordingly.- 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** Essential**:- Degree-qualified or equivalent in Quantity Surveyor, Engineering, Architecture.- Minimum 3 years of experience in similar roles.- Knowledge and understanding of the component parts of a project and overall construction costs- Ability to analyse 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- Positive attitude at all times and the ability to integrate and play active part in the Construction Team- Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise to meet deadlines- Keen to pursue personal development needs and maintain up-to-date knowledge Fluent in English**Desirable**:- Working towards RICS membership or recently chartered- Conversant in all aspects of quantity surveying- Experience in utilising software systems e.g. CostX, CATO, BIM Measure- Experience in utilising Excel advance level- Experience in utilising AutoCAD.**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._- #LI-PL1_Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:TwitterInstagramLinkedInJoin our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:TwitterInstagramLinkedIn