Senior Cost Manager- Data Center Construction

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Construction Cost Manager to work with our Data Center team to support a key clients retrofit/upgrade program. To be successful in this position you must have great communication skills and be comfortable operating in a clientfacing role.

Onsite presence is required 23 times a week at client site. Requirements may change depending on our clients needs.

Job Objectives:

PreConstruction Services:

• Provide an endtoend integrated cost management service through collaboration with programlevel interfacing teams.
• Facilitate cost management workshops and training sessions with the general contractor to ensure all contractual requirements and expectations are established agreed and understood with respect to cost reporting.
• Provide status reports (as needed) from the project intake system to assist with general upkeep of all project requests within the MARCUS portfolio.
• Provide commercial preconstruction support (as necessary) for retrofit/upgrade projects within the Region.
• Provide conceptual workinplace forecasts for future projects in support of annual budget planning.
• Perform analysis bid leveling and benchmarking in response to general contractor fee and staffing proposals.
• Provide the project management team with recommendations on the commercial negotiation strategy to be applied to general contractor bid proposals.

Budget Management and Funding:

• Support clients project management team (as required) with quarterly funding plans and assisting with the determination of Capex/Opex and site/standalone PFRs.
• Analyze and provide cost of work vs overhead cost metrics once per quarter.
• Provide the clients project management team with variance narratives (as required) which explain adjustments made to the initial project budget estimate.
• Allocate approved funding within the clients cost management system and ensure that funding allocation across cost codes and budget categories is aligned with the project budget estimate.

Payment Application and Invoice Management:

• Attend monthly site walks (as required) with the project manager and general contractor to validate the payment application and ensure progress claimed is accurate.
• Provide the project management team with recommendations (as needed) for approval rejection or adjustment of the general contractors monthly payment application.
• Review invoices submitted by ownerfurnished equipment vendors and ensure alignment with agreed billing milestones contained in the relevant contract.

Cash Flow and Accruals:

• Review the cost and/or resource loaded schedule and the schedule of values in conjunction with general contractor A/E and other vendors.
• Ensure the clients cash flow reporting system is updated on a monthly basis with the latest workinplace forecasts for all projects.
• Analyse variances in quarterly financial accruals providing justification as necessary for any under/over accruals.
• Assist with quarterly capitalization as necessary.

Project Closeout:

• Coordinate with general contractors and other project vendors to ensure purchase orders are financially closed upon completion of the relevant scope.
• Provide the project management team with recommendations (as needed) relating to partial and full retention release in accordance with requirements contained in the clients project manual.

Qualifications :

• 5 years experience working in a construction cost management role.
• College and/or postgraduate degree in construction management cost management quantity surveying engineering or field related to construction.
• Experience of leading cost management on medium or large sized construction projects of medium to high complexity.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters such as different procurement routes value management and value engineering.
• US experience is strongly desirable.

Additional Information :

The salary range for this fulltime role is $130K$160K per year. Ranges are determined by role and level and represent a good faith effort to provide a fair and equitable salary. This range is a reflection of base salary only not of a total compensation package.  Please note Turner & Townsend reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted range depending on candidates experience and qualifications.

*Onsite presence and requirements may change depending on our clients needs*
 

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