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About the Role
Seeking personable, enthusiastic, and energetic Cost Managers/Cost Consultants to join our UK Infrastructure team, supporting business growth and UK infrastructure development. You will work on a variety of client and Turner & Townsend projects and initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Establish friendly, professional, and appropriate relationships with clients, colleagues, and other project stakeholders.
- Administer various contracts in accordance with project objectives and policies.
- Provide accurate project cost monitoring, forecasting, and reporting to completion within budget.
- Pro-actively monitor and manage cost variance and contract cash flow, ensuring timely and correct applications.
- Collaborate with client and contractor teams to manage project deliverables, KPIs, and objectives, including program performance, cost control, and value engineering.
- Manage contract changes effectively, ensuring projects remain within governance and adopt best practices.
- Drive improvements in the accuracy of forecasts and budgets.
- Proactively provide sound commercial knowledge and support to all stakeholders.
- Ensure final accounts are negotiated and agreed.
- Lead people and commissions as needed.
- Adhere to SOX control responsibilities where applicable.
Requirements
- Previous experience or a sound and suitable understanding of contract management (NEC3, Option C preferred), cost management, change management and control, valuation, risk management, procurement, estimating, pricing, and reporting is advantageous.
- Demonstrate a collaborative approach and a best-for-project attitude.
- Showcase sharing of best practices.
- Exhibit people management and commission management capabilities.
- Identify and drive efficiencies and improvements through the project lifecycle.
- Possess good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, including different procurement routes, value management, and value engineering.
Skills
- Excellent communication
- Contract Management (NEC3, Option C preferred)
- Cost Management
- Change management and control
- Valuation
- Risk Management
- Procurement
- Estimating
- Pricing
- Reporting
- Collaborative approach
- Best-for-project attitude
- Sharing best practice
- People management
- Commission management
- Identifying and driving efficiencies and improvements
- Construction industry technical knowledge
- Value management
- Value engineering
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Education Level
- Degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant subject
- Hold or be working towards an appropriate professional body membership or equivalent
Benefits
- A great place to work
- Opportunity and voice to affect change
- Support for success in work and life
- Healthy, productive, and flexible working environment
- Respect for work-life balance
About the Company
- Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
- We work with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources, transforming together and delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives.
- We partner to deliver impactful projects and programs, turning challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
- Our capabilities include program, 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 partners holding a significant minority interest.
- Turner & Townsend and CBRE collaborate to provide clients with the premier program, project, and cost management offering globally.
Equal Opportunity
- Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
- We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.