Senior Cost Manager - Health, Science & Education

TURNER & TOWNSEND; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the construction sector is seeking a Senior Cost Manager Quantity Surveyor for its London Health team. This role involves managing complex health projects and ensuring effective cost management from inception to completion. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in the healthcare sector, experience with relevant contracts, and leadership experience in managing project costs.

Qualifications

• Degree holder in a relevant field and ideally MRICS qualified.
• Detailed knowledge of healthcare sector project management.
• Experience in JCT and NEC contracts and NHS client-facing roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead cost management services for health projects, ensuring client objectives are met.
• Manage tendering processes and produce cost plans and reports.
• Oversee junior team members and ensure accurate valuations and cost checking.

Skills

Cost Management

Negotiation

Project Lifecycle Management

Healthcare Sector Knowledge

Education

Degree in Construction, Cost Management or Quantity Surveying

MRICS Qualification

Tools

CostX

Job description

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realise 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.

The London Cost Management Health team is a highly regarded health team working on some of the largest and most prestigious health projects covering the public and private sectors. The London Cost Management Health team have a wide and varied workload working on many projects from smaller refurbishments to large scale hospitals. The Health team are a key part of a wider Health, Education and Science team allowing candidates the opportunity to cover other sectors should they wish to develop other skills.

Job Description

Turner & Townsend is currently recruiting for a London basedSenior Cost Manager Quantity Surveyor to join ourHealth teamworking on major fit out and development projects forHealth projectsin both public and private sector organisations.

With a market leading client base and the opportunity to take the lead on immediate London based commissions, this is an exciting time to join the business unit and grow a career with Turner & Townsend.

This role is client facing, working within a professional and ambitious team, where you will receive excellent support.

Job Objectives:

Senior Cost Managers lead commissions of varying sizes, depending upon the complexity of the project. Our Senior Cost Managers work on projects ranging from £1m to over £300m.

MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE:

• To perform the role of the Senior Cost Manager, taking responsibility for end-to-end service delivery.
• To ensure that client objectives are met through the delivery of an effective cost management service from pre contract to handover.

KEY EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• Detailed knowledge of and experience in the healthcare sector (public and private) is essential, and particularly in acute hospitals through the full project lifecycle (Strategic Outline Case to Final Accounts and Defects Periods)
• Experience of healthcare master planning/strategic estate development and capital cost planning for business case compilation
• Experience in P21+/P22 cost advisor roles is essential covering new build and refurbishment, minor works and major projects and during pre-construction and construction stages
• Experience of taking an effective lead on Two-Stage Tender agreements with strong negotiation and organisational skills
• Detailed experience of working with JCT and NEC contracts, with JCT contract administration experience desirable
• Demonstrable experience in NHS client-facing roles at all levels (including Directors of Estates/Strategy and Planning/Capital Development to Trust stakeholders and service commissioners)
• The candidate will be required to demonstrate knowledge of the risks, challenges and opportunities facing public-sector healthcare bodies
• Experience of using CostX or similar measurement software

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
• Tendering and procuring, including managing the pre-qualification stage, producing the tender list, creating preliminaries, 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.
• 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 junior members of the cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on their project accountabilities.

Qualifications

• Ideally Degree qualified in one of the following fields: construction, cost management or Quantity surveying.
• Ideally MRICS
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering

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 atwww.turnerandtownsend.com/

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

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