Cost Manager

Company Description
- At Turner & Townsend we’re 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 118 offices in 50 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**:
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Cost Manager with a specific focus on electric discipline and works to join our team Involved throughout but more heavily during estimation points and procurement phase. Also involved with change control during execution.
**Qualifications**:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Construction Management, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in cost management, with a specific focus on electric discipline and works.
- Strong knowledge of project cost control principles and techniques.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan
- 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
- 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
- Producing monthly post contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
- Inputting into 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 the above accountabilities
- Marketing and business development, to include:
- Identifying opportunities to develop new business with existing clients and reporting such opportunities to the appropriate line manager and by making effective use of the marketing database
- Assisting in the production of bid documentation
- Identifying ways in which cost management procedures, templates and products can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager Internal management accountabilities, to include:
- Knowledge management - Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each commission is input into the Turner & Townsend internal database
- Depending upon context, a Cost Manager is likely to report to a Senior Cost Manager, Area Manager or Associate Director.
- KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS - A Cost Manager will in part be assessed by the extent to which: - Commissions are managed to the right quality standards and are completed efficiently and on time - Service delivery on commissions is in line with the conditions of appointment - Good relationships are developed with clients and members of the cross-functional team - They work as an effective member of the cost management team, including where appropriate, taking effective responsibility for Assistant Cost Managers - Opportunities are identified to develop new business with existing clients - Margin levels are kept track of on all commissions - Key information and data is effectively cascaded and appropriately retained.
**Responsibilities include but are not limited to**:
- Develop and implement cost control systems for electric projects
- Analyse project budgets and compare actual costs against the budget, identifying variances and taking corrective action as necessary.
- Prepare estimations according to all design phases.
- 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

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