Assistant Cost Managers - Real Estate London, England
Job 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.
Turner & Townsend are looking for Assistant Cost Managers to join our dynamic award winning, Industrial, Science and Tech Real Estate Cost Management team in our London Office.
You will have a fantastic opportunity to progress within our business, working with clients at the forefront of these innovative and era defining sectors. You receive professional investment and support from the company as well as a competitive salary and benefits. There will also be the opportunity to support internal business initiatives and development, in order to offer our people an all-round exposure to the business.
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
- Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages
- Good technical grounding in all of the main areas of cost management and contractor a background
- 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.
- Degree or HNC level qualification
- Ability to successfully manage and prioritise more than one project at a time.
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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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
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