Senior Cost Manager / Associate - MEP - Data Centre

Turnertownsend; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced MEP Senior Cost Manager / Associate to join our Sydney Data Centre team. You will support delivery of high‑value data centre projects, managing budgets, early estimates, and cost planning.

You will mentor colleagues, advance our MEP digital tools, and engage with the MEP community. The role requires strong client-facing capabilities, the ability to manage multiple projects and a robust understanding of MEP supply chains.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering cost management/quantity surveying across full project lifecycle in Data Centre sector.
• Professionally qualified (RICS or AIQS) or working towards.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience delivering MEP elements of work for clients.
• Knowledge and contacts within the MEP supply chain (tier 1 and below).
• Utilising digital software for cost management services.
• Commercially astute with good negotiation skills.
• Excellent people skills and client-facing teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Assist on feasibility studies and procurement reports.
• Estimate and cost plan, present final cost plan to clients.
• Tendering and procurement, including pre-qualification management.
• Manage post-contract cost variances and change control processes.
• Perform cost checks and valuations on larger projects.
• Produce monthly post-contract cost reports and present to client.
• Input into value engineering.
• Negotiate and agree final accounts.
• Interface with client and other consultants at all stages.
• Lead a cost management team when appropriate.

Skills

Cost management

RICS/AIQS

Multi-project management

MEP experience

Digital cost tools

Negotiation skills

Client communication

Tools

CostX

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced MEP Senior Cost Manager / Associate to join our growing Data Centre team based in Sydney. 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
• 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

Experience and Skills

• A proven track record of delivering high quality cost management/quantity surveying services 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

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