Senior Cost Manager / Estimator - Data Center Construction
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Responsibilities
- Develop and manage project budgets, cost plans, forecasts, and benchmark analyses throughout the project lifecycle.
- Prepare and present cost reports, commercial updates, and financial analyses to project stakeholders and senior leadership.
- Lead cost planning, estimating reviews, and budget validation activities from project initiation through completion.
- Support procurement activities, including bid package development, contractor selection, proposal evaluation, leveling, and commercial recommendations.
- Review contractor and subcontractor pricing, proposals, and change order requests.
- Manage commercial change control processes, evaluating impacts to cost, schedule, scope, and project risk.
- Monitor project expenditures, commitments, contingency utilization, and forecasted final costs.
- Perform cost checks, valuations, benchmarking exercises, and budget reconciliations.
- Collaborate with project teams to identify value engineering and cost optimization opportunities.
- Maintain oversight of project cash flow forecasting and financial reporting.
- Support commercial risk management efforts, including contingency planning, cost risk assessments, and contract compliance reviews.
- Assist in the resolution of commercial issues, claims, and disputes while minimizing project risk exposure.
- Review project controls documentation and ensure alignment between scope, schedule, and budget objectives.
- Produce monthly cost reports and participate in client and project team meetings.
- Manage project financial closeout activities, including final account negotiations and vendor settlements.
- Maintain cost databases and benchmarking information to support future project planning and delivery.
- Mentor junior cost management professionals and contribute to team development.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives and implementation of best practices across project delivery.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls, delivery methodologies, and governance requirements.
- Be a role model that drives a one-business culture and delivers successful outcomes for clients, colleagues, and stakeholders.
- SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
- On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs.
- 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.
- Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
- Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/ and www.heery.com/
- All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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- It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.
- Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.
- 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.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Engineering, or a related construction field.
- Minimum 5-7 years of experience in cost management, quantity surveying, estimating, or commercial management within the construction industry.
- Experience supporting mission-critical, data center, advanced technology, industrial, infrastructure, or other highly technical construction projects is required.
- Demonstrated experience managing project costs from planning and procurement through construction and closeout.
- Experience reviewing estimates, contractor pricing, change orders, and commercial negotiations.
- Knowledge of construction procurement strategies, value engineering, cost control, and risk management principles.
- Experience working in active operational environments is preferred.
- Construction consultancy experience strongly preferred.
- RICS accreditation or progress toward chartership preferred.
- Excellent communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and client-facing skills.
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