Associate Director - Cost Manager Quantity Surveyor Data Center Construction
Associate Director - Cost Manager Quantity Surveyor Data Center Construction
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20-12-2024
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Job Description
Turner & Townsend has an opportunity for an Associate Director Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to work with our team and a global technology client on an massive data center construction program.
The Associate Director will take responsibility for end to end service delivery acting as a key day to day client interface and ensuring that client objectives are met through the delivery of a value added service.
Responsibilities:
- Strong leadership skills; experience leading a Cost Management team ensuring they deliver on all accountabilities.
- Taking a lead role in interfacing with the client stakeholders and other consultants at all project stages.
- Identifying opportunities to improve cost management procedures templates and products.
- Knowledge management Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each commission is inputted into internal databases and shared.
- Process improvement Identifying and acting upon ways to improve internal systems and processes.
- Taking responsibility for developing new business opportunities with existing and new Turner & Townsend clients.
- Identifying and acting upon crossselling opportunities.
- Lead proposals for new work or variations for existing projects.
- Attending relevant networking events and other promotional opportunities.
- Staff management Inputting into the formal management of staff and recruitment interviews.
- Undertake Staff Performance reviews.
- Financial management Utilizing the tools provided keep track of the ongoing margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts for each commission
- Review and participate with the design services team and general contractor in the development of the cost estimates.
- Reconcile changes that occur over the planning phase and assist the general contractor to ensure that their data is accurate.
- Quality Control Ensuring compliance with quality standards and participation in ISO audits.
- Communicate or meet with general contractor and owner project manager to gather status information to prepare a cost estimate update.
- Prepare written comments to the general contractors submissions including the executive summary. Coordinate all sources of cost information for cost discussions and suppliers direct from NPA subs quantities from A/Es
- Inform and drive engineering priorities based on cost impact.
- Provide estimate and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
- Work proactively with minimal supervision to resolve scheduling issues.
- Manage cost checks and carry out valuations on larger projects. Complete timely accurate cost checking and valuation processes.
- Participate effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes.
- Manage Cost impact / contingency management and commitment tracking logs.
- Prepare funding data presentations and coordinate VE sessions with stakeholders.
Job Objectives:
- Commissions are managed to the right quality standards and are completed efficiently and on time.
- Service delivery on commissions is in line with the conditions of appointment.
- Strong relationships are developed with clients and crossfunctional team members.
- The team is effectively led.
- Line management responsibilities are effectively discharged.
- Business development opportunities with existing and new clients including cross selling opportunities are identified and acted upon.
- Margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts are kept track of on all commissions.
- Key information and data is effectively cascaded and appropriately retained.
Qualifications :
- Demonstrates excellent presentation verbal written and communication skills.
- Solid technical experience in all cost management areas; planning estimating precontract post contract and final account.
- Ability to estimate at conceptual programming and detailed level.
- Understands cost (material prices labor productivities) as well as commit profiles cashflow LLE dates and overall project cost.
- Experience preparing Cost Management estimates and reports.
- Experience with advising clients on value management value engineering and life cycle costing.
- Experience with key aspects of business development.
- Good organization skills ability to multitask and be a team player.
- Proficient with collaborative cloudbased software.
- Proficiency with Microsoft/ Gsuite of applications.
- Strong analytical skills and advanced proficiency using spreadsheets.
- Excellent interpersonal verbal and written communication skills.
- Drive to be proactive and selfmotivated.
- The tenacity and ambition to inject value and create solutions.
- Ability to develop good working relationships with project teams.
Education / Experience:
- College or postgraduate degree in Quantity Surveying Construction Management Engineering or a related field with a technical focus or related technical field.
- Minimum of 8 years relevant experience working in a cost management role on large mission critical construction projects such as Data Centers High Tech Manufacturing industrial or relatable is required.
- Data Center construction experience is strongly preferred.
- RICS or equivalent accreditation.
- MEP experience is beneficial; Mechanical Electrical and Plumbing estimating experience within the construction industry.
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Employment Type :
Fulltime
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