Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor Construction

About the role

Turner & Townsend are engaged to support our clients with many complex projects, and responsible for all aspects of cost management and project delivery. We are seeking a Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor with experience working on large-scale Life Sciences construction projects, to act as the day-to-day interface with our clients and drive these projects to achieve excellent outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Provide estimates and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
• Review and participate with the design services team and construction manager in the development of the cost estimates.
• Communicate or meet with construction manager and owner project manager to gather status information to prepare a cost estimate update.
• Cook up and track contracts increases cost and reason for change.
• Manage and track the Workstream budget and ensure compliance with Client processes.
• Develop understanding of the Client Work Breakdown Structure. Manage and monitor custom WBS structure within the Client Cost Report Spreadsheet.
• Utilize the existing Client templates to maintain a project forecast (commitments, actual cash flow and forecast); interface with vendors and Client site personnel to understand invoicing schedules.
• Use existing Client SAP reports as a tool to gather data for cost reporting (actuals and commitments).
• Provide monthly/quarterly reports for management team, such as a monthly variance cash flow report.
• Maintain Change Management and Maintenance of Risk Tracking Tools within the Excel Spreadsheet or alternate reporting tool.
• Reconcile changes and assist the construction manager to ensure that their data is accurate.
• Estimating and negotiating change orders throughout the construction lifecycle.
• Participate effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes.
• Update the project cash flow in the Client custom database - Capital Planning System (CAPS) for your Workstreams.
• Review vendor & General Contractors invoices/pay applications as required.
• Establish monthly project metrics and create presentations for your Workstreams.
• Perform Monthly Risk Analysis and integrate risks into the project forecast.
• Support tracking of internal Client labor charges in US & outside US (OUS) locations as applicable.
• Develop and implement work processes and procedures as required.
• Prepare written comments on all the construction manager’s submissions.
• Manage Cost impact / contingency management and commitment tracking logs to drive accurate monthly reporting.
• Prepare funding data presentations.
• Prepare monthly time phase forecasting updates and ensure accuracy of said forecasts.
• Prepare monthly project status report for the stakeholders.
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Pre-Contract

• Developing estimates through the design phase, delivering updated cost plans at appropriate design milestones.
• Providing commercial input to design optioneering and input into value engineering exercises.
• Reviewing contractor and subcontractor pricing and leading negotiations on behalf of the client to drive fair contract prices.

Post-Contract

• Performing quantity surveying, cost controls and change management activities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively.
• Ensuring that cost auditing and valuation work is managed effectively.
• Prepare monthly time phase forecasting updates.
• Prepare monthly project status report for the stakeholders.
• Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed in a timely manner.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction. (preferably Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management or related field).
• Minimum 8+ years’ experience working in a construction cost management role.
• RICS accredited or working towards is valuable but not required.
• Experience working on large-scale Life Sciences projects or similar.
• Experience of leading cost management on medium or large sized construction projects of medium to high complexity.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering.
• Direct experience working on teams within a complex matrix environment.
• Can undertake the role of cost lead for a portfolio of 20-50 projects and manage a team of 5+ and be main client contact.
• Experience in cost controls on largescale projects over $10million desirable.
• Experience undertaking earned value management and value of work done reconciliation.
• Experience of using cost controls and estimating software highly desirable.
• Experience within the construction industry is a must, candidates with additional life sciences experience strongly preferred.