Cost Manager, Construction Projects (On-site Bogotá)

Turner & Townsend; Bogotá ciudad; Híbrido; COP 120.000.000 - 180.000.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Turner & Townsend is seeking a seasoned Cost Manager for our Bogotá operations. You will lead cost control, budgeting, procurement support and tender analysis on real estate and infrastructure projects, with travel to on-site locations outside Bogotá.

The role requires strong cost management discipline, accuracy and experience with global projects. Ideal candidates will have 6–8 years in construction cost management, a Bachelor’s in Engineering/Architecture or Mechanical Engineering, and prior

Formación

• 6 - 8 years of professional experience in construction projects.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Architecture or Mechanical Engineering.
• High degree of accuracy and local market cost knowledge.
• Worked for global companies previously.

Responsabilidades

• Assisting on feasibility studies and writing procurement reports.
• Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
• Development of the cost procedures.
• 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.
• Review and approve subcontractor proposals, manage contracts, and change requests.
• 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.
• Analyze the project budget, monitor expenditure and costs against delivered products and services.
• Review payment applications, monitor invoicing and ensure payments are in order.
• Report the progress at regular intervals with the SCM, and manage communications with all stakeholders until project delivery and financial close out; Producing monthly post contract cost reports and presenting them to the client.
• Review monthly reports as presented by Contractor, and present to the SCM and 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.
• Financial management –Utilising Financial Management Systems to keep track of the ongoing margin levels.
• Process improvement –Identifying ways in which internal systems and processes can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager.
• Knowledge management –Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each commission is input into the Turner & Townsend internal database: share systemized lessons learned.
• The job holder is required to carry out all tasks within his/her level of skill and ability.

Conocimientos

Cost management

Budget analysis

Tendering

Contract administration

Project coordination

Educación

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Bachelor's Degree in Architecture

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Herramientas

Financial management systems

Descripción del empleo

Turner & Townsend is seeking a seasoned Cost Manager for our Bogotá operations. You will lead cost control, budgeting, procurement support and tender analysis on real estate and infrastructure projects, with travel to on-site locations outside Bogotá.

The role requires strong cost management discipline, accuracy and experience with global projects. Ideal candidates will have 6–8 years in construction cost management, a Bachelor’s in Engineering/Architecture or Mechanical Engineering, and prior