Lead Cost Manager
At a Glance
- Category
- 🏗️ Construction & Engineering
- Level
- Mid-Level
- Type
- Full-time
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Company Description
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.
Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com
Job Description
Our pipeline of upcoming projects in Doha, Qatar is strong and we are looking for Lead Cost Managers with both infrastructure and real estate experience to join our Qatar team.
Main Responsibilities
- Responsible for pre and post-contract quantity surveying duties including preparation of cost estimates, procurement and tendering, contract administration, variation, final account, etc.
- Completing feasibility studies and writing procurement reports.
- 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.
- 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.Key Experience Requirements
- Detailed knowledge of and experience in the Real Estate / Infrastructure sector working for a professional cost consultancy.
- Excellent measurement capability for infrastructure/building works, accuracy and efficiency are essential.
- Experience of interim applications, change management, variation valuation and extension of time claims.
- Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering.
- Demonstrable experience in client-facing roles, professional approach and confidence in presenting to clients, other consultants and project stakeholders.
Qualifications
- BSc in related subject or equivalent.
- Minimum 10-15 years in relevant work experience, ideally in a consultancy.
- Professional membership i.e. MRICS.
- Experience in the Middle East is preferable.
- Excellent command of written and spoken English.
- Must be able to present and communicate effectively and represent a stand-alone package of works
- Must be a self-starter who is proactive in the resolution of programme wide issues
Additional Information
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Requirements
- •Detailed knowledge of and experience in the Real Estate / Infrastructure sector
- •Experience working for a professional cost consultancy
- •Excellent measurement capability for infrastructure/building works
- •Experience of interim applications, change management, variation valuation, and extension of time claims
- •Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters
- •Experience in different procurement routes, value management, and value engineering
- •Demonstrable experience in client-facing roles
Responsibilities
- •Responsible for pre and post-contract quantity surveying duties
- •Preparation of cost estimates, procurement, and tendering
- •Contract administration, variation, and final account management
- •Completing feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
- •Estimating and cost planning including producing and presenting the final cost plan
- •Managing the pre-qualification stage, producing tender lists, and tender analysis
- •Dealing with post-contract cost variances and change control processes
- •Producing monthly post-contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
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