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Cost Manager Senior Cost Manager Infrastructure

Job Description

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 62 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.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

  • Responsible for the preparation and monitoring of budgets and forecasts within the project and work packages
  • Adherence to project control standards across the project
  • Production and control of budgets / forecasts and expenditure profiles for all work within the project, utilising approved work breakdown and cost breakdown structures
  • Analysis of earned value and adverse trends
  • Co-ordination and production of cost reports and updated budgets to a defined reporting cycle
  • Analysis of change within construction and the provision of feedback on areas of risk and opportunities
  • Analysis and integration of cost estimates and forecasts provided by contractors and suppliers
  • Providing process and technical support to assist in the management of the full project budget and scope
  • Cost and resource estimates to support the budget
  • Detailed change control to manage the above
  • Project and work package cost reports
  • Close working with the construction department  to monitor site costs
  • Close working with the scheduling team to support earned value analysis
  • Assisting on feasibility studies and writing cost reports.
  • Assisting with Estimating and cost planning including producing and presenting the final cost plan
  • Assisting with Tendering and procurement, including helping with the pre-qualification stage, assisting in the preparation of pre tender estimates, the tender analysis, tender reports and the compilation of contractual documents.
  • Dealing effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes
  • Follow project governance processes and systems that are utilised throughout the project
  • Work effectively as part of a cost management team, to ensure that all deliverables are met.

Qualifications

  • Professionally qualified in cost management, commercial management, project controls or similar
  • Commercial Management experience gained within the infrastructure environment particularly water sector
  • MRICS / AIQS accreditation ideal
  • Relevant work experience, ideally in a consultancy environment
  • Experience of working within the Australian market and/or Australian projects in the infrastructure sector
  • Proficient in the use of CostX, Unifer, Prism, Ecosys, Unifier, Cobra
  • Proficient in the use of SAP and BI tools
  • Ability to demonstrate attention to detail
  • Team player with the ability to work autonomously
  • Excellent command of written and spoken English with excellent report and bid writing skills
  • Highly motivated and driven with a passion for delivering to your clients

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.

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/

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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.

Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:

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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.

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