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MEP Cost Manager / Senior Cost Manager - MEP

Turner & Townsend

London

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GBP 50,000 - 90,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits for a dynamic MEP Senior Cost Manager to join a leading global professional services firm in London. This role involves overseeing Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing deliverables while managing multiple projects across various sectors. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a strong understanding of cost management and MEP systems, and will play a vital role in mentoring junior staff and advancing digital tools within the team. Join a collaborative environment where your expertise will contribute to impactful projects that enhance lives and drive success.

Qualifications

Proven track record in delivering high-quality cost management services.
Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously.
Knowledge of MEP supply chain and systems.

Responsibilities

Lead MEP specific deliverables within larger projects.
Manage budgets, estimating, and cost planning.
Produce and present monthly post contract cost reports.

Skills

Cost Management

Quantity Surveying

Project Management

Negotiation Skills

MEP Knowledge

Education

Degree or HNC Level Qualification

RICS Qualification

Tools

Digital Software for Cost Management

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Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

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 MEP Senior Cost Manager, to join our busy Real Estate team in our London office. Supporting our clients to deliver projects and programmes across a variety of sectors.

The position will be to lead on the Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) specific deliverables within a larger project or leading direct MEP commissions, such as asset upgrade works.

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. The role will also include management of other Assistant Cost Managers and Cost Managers within the MEP team.

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 Accountabilities

Commission Management, to include the following, either as part of a larger project or leading an MEP direct commission:

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

Qualifications

Experience and Skills:

A proven track record of delivering high quality cost management/quantity surveying services across the full project lifecycle
Professionally qualified (RICS or similar) or working towards
Degree or HNC level qualification
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.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Project Management, Consulting, and Engineering
Industries
Construction, Civil Engineering, and Business Consulting and Services

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