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.
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.
Job Description
Turner & Townsend alinea are looking for Assistant Cost Managers to join our dynamic award winning, Cost Management team in our Cambridge Office, working within Turner & Townsend alineas Real Estate team. There are long term secured frameworks with national and regional organisations within the following sectors - Retail, Commercial, Industrial, Education, Healthcare and Defence.
You will have a fantastic opportunity to progress within our business and receive professional investment from the company as well as a competitive salary and benefits package. You must be able to demonstrate consultancy experience and have professional membership of the RICS (or working towards this).
Job Objectives
* Assisting on feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
* Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan
* Tendering and procuring, including managing the pre-qualification stage, producing the tender list, putting the preliminaries together, tender analysis, producing the tender report and compiling the contractual documents
* Dealing effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes, where applicable referring major changes to line manager
* Taking personal responsibility for making cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects and in all cases ensuring that timely and accurate cost checking and valuation takes place
* Producing monthly post contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
* Inputting into value engineering
* Negotiating and agreeing final accounts
* Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages
* Where appropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all of the above accountabilities
Qualifications
* Good technical grounding in all of the main areas of cost management and contractor a background
* Experience of acting as Commission Manager on small to medium sized projects, or at least sufficient related experience to enable a step up to performing the role of Commission Manager
* Good knowledge of the main procurement methods and their application with respect to the tactical procurement of small to medium sized buildings
* Knowledge and understanding of value engineering
* Experience of utilising a range of industry standard processes and systems (IT and other) in order to effectively deliver a project.
* Working towards Chartership
* Degree or HNC level qualification
* Ability to successfully manage and prioritise more than one project at a time.
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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