Senior Cost Manager (MEP) - Real Estate

Turner Townsend; Bagstone; Sur place; GBP 65 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible working

Diversity & inclusion

Résumé du poste

Turner & Townsend in Edinburgh seeks an experienced MEP Senior Cost Manager to lead cost management on complex real estate projects. You will manage early budgets, cost plans, tendering and post-contract reporting while coordinating with clients and design teams.

The role requires Chartered status, strong leadership, and the ability to deliver under pressure in a fast-paced environment. A client-facing mindset and excellent communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Autonomy to manage tasks with limited supervision.
• Self-motivated and capable of meeting tight deadlines.
• Chartered professional with robust project cost management knowledge.
• Professional demeanour and strong communication skills.
• Highly organized with ability to prioritise workload.
• Ability to collaborate across the business.
• Resilience to work under pressure.

Responsabilités

• Lead MEP cost management deliverables on large projects or direct commissions.
• Establish early budgets, early estimates and cost plans aligned with client brief.
• Oversee tendering and procurement (single and two-stage) and pre-qualification.
• Manage post-contract cost variances, change control and valuations.
• Direct a cost management team and liaise with clients and consultants.
• Prepare monthly post-contract cost reports and input value engineering.

Connaissances

Autonomy

Initiative

Professional demeanour

Highly organized

Client facing

Collaborative

Work under pressure

Formation

Chartered Status

Description du poste

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.

Position

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an MEP Senior Cost Manager, to join our busy Real Estate team in our Edinburgh office. Supporting our Developer, Occupier, Governmental, Health, Education and Tech clients to deliver complicated projects and challenging programmes. 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. 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.

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

• Ability to work with autonomy
• A self-motivated individual who is able to take initiative and deliver to tight deadlines
• Have achieved Chartered Status
• Have a confident and professional manner
• Highly organised and ability to prioritise own workload
• Ability to collaborate and build relationships across the business
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Ability to delegate tasks to junior team to assist in their technical development

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

Summary

SummaryType: Full-timeFunction: Project ManagementExperience level: Mid-Senior LevelIndustry: Construction