Senior Cost Manager

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.
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Job Description

The Senior Cost Manager is responsible for cost control on behalf of the Contracting Entity, managing a team of Intermediate Cost Managers/Quantity Surveyors in ensuring effective cost estimation and control of spend, and ensuring payments are compliant with the contracting reimbursement principles (schedules of rates, bills of quantity, materials on and off site payments, etc.), as well as monitoring the anticipated final project costs. In doing so, the Senior Cost Manager will provide cost management and cost advice to the Claims, Contract Management and Project Management team, and ensure that the Contracting Entity achieves the project’s budgetary goals and objectives.

Principle Accountabilities: 

• Lead preparation of feasibility, preliminary design and final design cost estimates, for multidisciplinary railway projects.
• Assess on and off site materials, monthly payment certificates and package final accounts, as well as monitoring the anticipate final project costs and making recommendations for monthly payments or final accounts due ensuring Contractual Entitlement.
• Undertake or review measurement of designs and on-site works completed.
• Develop the schedule of rates or Bill of Quantities.

Experience:

• Must have a clear understanding of, and ability to work with, construction contract commercial documents, drawings and specifications.
• Strong experience of delivering technically complex and high value infrastructure projects
• Experience of working in a comparable consultancy environment, or with a client or
• contractor organisation
• Knowledge of cost management principles, methods, techniques and tools, including the standard method of measurement
• Knowledge of policy and procedure implementation

Qualifications

• 10 years’ experience, at least 3+ years within the transport infrastructure industry with a focus on multidisciplinary railway projects.
• C Eng / BEng / BA / BSc cost management, quantity surveying, estimating management or in a related discipline.

Additional Information

What we offer you:

• Full time
• Competitive remuneration and attractive range of benefits
• 8% Pension
• 23 days Annual leave (+ 2 company days)
• Opportunity to work on impactful and innovative projects
• Career development opportunities both in Ireland and globally
• Opportunity to work with a diverse group of talented and collaborative colleagues

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.

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