Life Sciences Cost Engineering Lead

Turner & Townsend; Port Talbot; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Cost Engineering Lead in the Life Sciences division to support delivery of construction and manufacturing projects for the Real Estate team in the UK. You will lead cost estimating, procurement strategy, and post-contract cost reporting across regulated pharma/biotech facilities.

Applicants should have strong cost/contract management experience, familiarity with Prism/Ecosys, and the ability to manage multi-disciplinary teams and stakeholder relationships.

Qualifications

• Typically, a qualified graduate in a relevant discipline with proven working experience in project controls services for major projects or programmes.
• CIMA qualification is welcome and advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Pre and post-contract duties including cost estimates, procurement and tendering, contract administration, variation, final account.
• Completing feasibility studies and procurement reports.
• Estimating and cost planning, presenting the final cost plan.
• Tendering and procurement activity, managing pre-qualification, tender list, preliminaries, tender analyses.
• Maintaining timely and accurate cost checks and valuations.
• Producing monthly post-contract cost reports for client presentation.
• Interfacing with client and other consultants at all project stages.
• Participate in post-contract cost variances and change control processes.
• Cost risk analysis and input into value engineering; negotiate final accounts.
• Maintain central feedback on cost estimating and update best practices.

Skills

Life Sciences domain knowledge

Construction procurement

Estimating tools experience

Spreadsheets & databases

Client relationships

Multi-tasking

Listening & communication

Cost management experience

Education

Graduate in a relevant discipline

CIMA qualification

Tools

Prism

Ecosys

SAP

Oracle

Job description

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Cost Engineering Lead in the Life Sciences division to support delivery of construction and manufacturing projects for the Real Estate team in the UK. You will lead cost estimating, procurement strategy, and post-contract cost reporting across regulated pharma/biotech facilities.

Applicants should have strong cost/contract management experience, familiarity with Prism/Ecosys, and the ability to manage multi-disciplinary teams and stakeholder relationships.