Senior Cost Manager / Associate - MEP - Data Centre

Turner & Townsend; Sydney; Vor Ort; AUD 180.000 - 240.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Turner & Townsend is seeking a senior MEP Cost Manager / Associate for our Data Centre team in Sydney. You will work with leading developers and contractors to manage budgets, early estimates, and cost planning across high-value, mission-critical projects.

The role requires self-motivation, client facing communication, and the ability to manage multiple projects with a design team through procurement and post-contract reporting.

Qualifikationen

• Demonstrated track record in cost management/quantity surveying for Data Centre projects.

Aufgaben

• Assist on feasibility studies and procurements.
• Estimate and present final cost plans to clients.
• Lead cost management activities and coordinate with MEP suppliers.

Kenntnisse

Data Centre cost management

Client facing

Designing and cost planning

MEP systems knowledge

Budgeting and procurement

Mentoring teammates

Digital MEP tools

Ausbildung

RICS or AIQS qualification

Tools

Cost management software

Jobbeschreibung

• Full-time

Company Description

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. 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

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced MEP Senior Cost Manager / Associate to join our growing Data Centre team based inSydney.Working with leading developers, operators and contractors, you will support the delivery of some of Australia's most significant mission-critical data centre projects. This role offers the opportunity to work on complex, high-value developments in a fast-paced and collaborative environment, contributing to the continued growth of our Data Centre sector across Australia.

The individual must be self-motivated and Client facing (both internal & external) with the ability to manage multiple projects and clients. This will involve establishing early budgets, early estimating, and cost planning, managing a design team to the budget, tendering and procurement (single and two stage) and post contract reporting to the Client.

A good knowledge of MEP systems and supply chain is fundamental with the ability to work both collaboratively but robustly with any main contractor and their MEP supply chain.

The successful candidate will be expected to mentor colleagues, help develop and advance our MEP digital systems & tools, promote MEP within Turner & Townsend and engage with the MEP community (engineers, contractors, manufacturers etc)

Key Responsibilities

• Assisting on feasibility studies and writing procurement reports


• Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan to internal & external clients


• Tendering (single and two stage) and procuring, including managing the pre-qualification stage


• Dealing effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes


• 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
  
• 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

Experience and Skills:

• A proven track record of delivering high quality cost management/quantity surveyingservices across the full project lifecycle witihin the Data Centre sector


• Professionally qualified (RICS or AIQS) or working towards


• Ability to successfully manage and prioritise more than one project at a time.


• Experience in delivering MEP elements of work for clients


• Knowledge & contacts within the MEP supply chain (tier 1 and below)


• Utilising digital software for delivery of cost management services


• Commercially astute with good negotiation skills


• Excellent people person and great communicator, both client facing and team based

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.