Cost Manager - Construction Projects

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.  Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide.

Interested in working for the world’s leading corporations, delivering their world class Construction projects?  Turner & Townsend are leaders in professional services to the Industrial and commercial sectors globally. Due to our continued successes and expansion of our European business, we currently have opportunities in the FRANKFURT region and want to talk with Project Managers at all career levels.

As we move forward with the expansion of our European business, we now seek experienced Cost Managers who will join us in helping us deliver these demanding, high value, complex projects.  

Job Description

We are seeking  Cost Managers to act as the day-to-day interface with our clients driving projects to achieve an excellent outcome.

You will have Cost Management experience, and may have worked on major construction projects. You will either specialize in pre-contract cost planning and estimating activities or post-contract commercial management and will bring your practical expertise and best practice experience and be comfortable operating in a client-facing role, leading project teams and managing difficult stakeholders.

Key Elements:

• Provide estimate and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
• Ability to estimate at conceptual, programming and detailed level.
• Assist on feasibility studies and writing procurement reports.
• Perform all aspects of procurement, including managing the pre-qualification stage, produce bid list, bid analysis, produce bid report, and compile contractual documents.
• Participate effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes, where applicable refer major changes to line manager.
• Manage cost checks and carry out valuations on larger projects, and ensure timely and accurate cost checking, and valuation process.
• Produce monthly post contract cost reports and present to client.
• Provide input into value engineering; negotiate and approve final accounts.
• Maintain liaison with client and other consultants at all projects stages.
• Provide leadership to cost management team when necessary, ensure the delivery on all of accountabilities.
• Identify opportunities to develop new business with existing clients and report such opportunities to appropriate line manager, and utilize marketing database.
• Identify improvements for cost management procedures, templates, and products, and refer ideas to appropriate line manager.

Your experience:

• Good technical experience in all cost management areas; pre-contract, post contract and final account.
• Good understanding of all mechanical, process, electrical, and plumbing systems, as they relate to construction of projects and/or 
• Good understanding of all civils, structural and architectural aspects as they relate to construction of projects
• Experience of leading cost management on medium or large sized construction projects of medium to high complexity.
• Experience with advising clients on value management, value engineering, and life cycle costing.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering.
• Demonstrates excellent presentation, verbal, written, and communication skills.
• Great organizational skills; ability to multi-task and be a team player.

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Quantity Surveying, Architecture, Civil Engineering, Real Estate or similar.
• Ideally qualified as a registered Quantity Surveyor.
• A minimum of 7 years proven experience on constructions projects.
• English skills are required as well as good German skills (min. B2) and willingness to improve the German language skills.
• Working knowledge of Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Working knowledge of cost databases and/or estimating software is advantageous.

Additional Information

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. We also encourage our staff to strive to ‘make a difference’ and become involved in va