MEP Cost Manager / Senior Cost Manager - MEP

Turner & Townsend; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking an MEP Senior Cost Manager to join their Real Estate team in London. This role involves leading MEP deliverables, managing budgets, and mentoring team members. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in MEP systems and excellent communication skills, contributing to impactful projects across various sectors.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in delivering high-quality cost management services.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience with MEP elements for clients.

Responsibilities

• Leading MEP-specific deliverables within projects.
• Establishing budgets and managing design teams.
• Conducting cost checks and producing monthly cost reports.

Skills

Negotiation skills

Commercial acumen

Communication skills

Project management

Education

Professional qualification (RICS or similar)

Degree or HNC qualification

Tools

Digital cost management software

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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. We partner to deliver impactful projects and programmes, turning challenges into opportunities 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. Turner & Townsend and CBRE collaborate to provide premier programme, project, and cost management services globally.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a MEP Senior Cost Manager to join our busy Real Estate team in London. Supporting clients across various sectors, the role involves leading MEP-specific deliverables within larger projects or direct MEP commissions such as asset upgrades.

The candidate must be self-motivated, client-facing (internal & external), capable of managing multiple projects and clients. Responsibilities include establishing budgets, early estimating, cost planning, managing design teams to budgets, tendering, procurement, and post-contract reporting. The role also involves managing other Cost Managers and Assistant Cost Managers within the MEP team.

A strong knowledge of MEP systems and supply chains is essential, along with the ability to work collaboratively and robustly with main contractors and their supply chains.

The successful candidate will mentor colleagues, help develop MEP digital systems and tools, promote MEP within the company, and engage with the MEP community (engineers, contractors, manufacturers).

Key Accountabilities

• Assisting in feasibility studies and procurement reports
• Estimating and cost planning, presenting final cost plans to clients
• Tendering and procurement management
• Managing post-contract cost variances and change control processes
• Conducting cost checks and valuations on projects
• Producing and presenting monthly post-contract cost reports
• Contributing to value engineering
• Negotiating final accounts
• Engaging with clients and other consultants at all project stages
• Leading a cost management team when appropriate

Qualifications and Skills

• Proven experience in delivering high-quality cost management or quantity surveying services across project lifecycles
• Professional qualification (RICS or similar) or working towards it
• Degree or HNC qualification
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience with MEP elements for clients
• Knowledge of MEP supply chain contacts (tier 1 and below)
• Proficiency with digital cost management software
• Strong negotiation skills and commercial acumen
• Excellent communication skills, both client-facing and team-oriented

Additional Information

Our people share our vision and mission. We offer a supportive, flexible, and inclusive work environment that promotes work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

For more information, visit www.turnerandtownsend.com

Note: SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, applicable where relevant.

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