Cost Manager CSA

As a Cost Manager, you will manage core cost management services for construction projects, ensuring cost control and quality. This involves effective delivery of cost management, fostering a collaborative environment, and meeting client objectives. Key responsibilities include pre-contract and post-contract cost management, estimating, cost planning, tendering, procurement, managing cost variances, and producing monthly reports. You will also contribute to value engineering, interface with clients and consultants, and improve cost management procedures.

Must Have

• Manage core functions of cost management services for construction projects
• Ensure cost control and quality objectives are met
• Possess in-depth knowledge of pre-contract and post-contract cost management services
• Experienced in estimating, rate analysis, and cost planning
• Develop and present final cost plans to clients
• Manage pre-qualification stage, produce tender list, compile contractual documents
• Deal effectively with post contract cost variances and support change control processes
• Produce monthly post contract cost reports
• Provide inputs to Value Engineering exercises
• Interface with the client and other consultants
• Identify ways to improve cost management procedures
• Input key information and learning into internal database
• Work as an effective member of the cost management team
• Bachelor’s degree in Cost Management, Quantity Surveying, Construction, Engineering, or related field
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in cost management or construction projects
• Strong understanding of quantity surveying, tools, and methodologies
• Native-level proficiency in local language
• Business-level proficiency in English
• Proficiency in Cost-X or equivalent cost estimation software
• Proficient communication and interpersonal skills

Good to Have

• Master’s degree in a related field

Role Overview

As a Cost Manager, you are expected to manage the core functions of cost management services for construction projects, ensuring cost control and quality objectives are met. You are expected to ensure that client objectives are met through the delivery of an effective cost management service and foster a collaborative and high-performing project environment.

Key Responsibilities

Project support and coordination

• Possesses in-depth knowledge of pre-contract and post-contract cost management services.
• Experienced in estimating, rate analysis, and cost planning, with the ability to develop and present final cost plans to clients.
• Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
• Tendering and procurement, 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 support in change control processes, where applicable referring major changes to reporting manager.

Governance & Reporting

• Producing monthly post contract cost reports and supporting the presentation to the client.
• Provide inputs to Value Engineering exercises, where applicable.
• Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages.
• Identifying ways in which cost management procedures, templates and products 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.
• Collaborate to deliver our best work – Work as an effective member of the cost management team, including where appropriate, taking effective responsibility for Assistant Cost Managers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Cost Management, Quantity Surveying, Construction, Engineering, or a related field; Master’s degree is a plus.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in cost management or construction projects (e.g. cost manager, construction manager, procurement, project manager, vendor, consultant etc.).
• Strong understanding of quantity surveying, tools, and methodologies.
• Native-level proficiency in (local language), Business-level proficiency in English.
• Proficiency in Cost-X or equivalent cost estimation software.
• Proficient communication and interpersonal skills.