MEP Cost Manager / Senior Cost Manager - MEP

Turner & Townsend; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits as a Senior Cost Manager in a dynamic Real Estate team. This role involves leading Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) deliverables, managing multiple projects, and mentoring junior staff. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cost management and MEP systems, with excellent communication and negotiation skills. Join a forward-thinking company that values diversity and promotes a healthy work-life balance, where your contributions will make a significant impact on ambitious projects across various sectors.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Opportunities for professional development

Inclusive workplace culture

Work-life balance support

Qualifications

• Proven track record in cost management across project lifecycles.
• Professionally qualified or working towards RICS certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead MEP specific deliverables and manage cost planning.
• Produce and present cost plans to clients and manage procurement.

Skills

Cost Management

Project Management

Negotiation Skills

Client Communication

MEP Knowledge

Digital Software Utilization

Education

Degree or HNC level qualification

Professionally qualified (RICS or similar)

Tools

Cost Management Software

Job description

• Full-time

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide.

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
• 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.

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