Senior Cost Manager

Sccsinternational; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration

23 days annual leave (+ 2 days)

Job summary

Turner & Townsend, a global leader in cost management and project controls, is seeking a Senior Cost Manager in Ireland to lead cost control for multidisciplinary railway projects. You will guide cost estimation, manage a team of cost professionals and ensure payments align with contractual principles.

Ideal candidates bring extensive experience in transport infrastructure, a strong grasp of cost management principles and the ability to deliver complex, high-value projects on schedule and within

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of cost management principles and tools.
• Experience with cost estimation, cost control and final accounts in large infrastructure projects.
• Ability to interpret contracts, drawings and specifications for cost management.

Responsibilities

• Lead preparation of cost estimates for multidisciplinary railway projects.
• Review materials, payment certificates and final accounts.
• Monitor and advise on anticipated final project costs and contractual entitlements.
• Develop schedules of rates or Bills of Quantities.

Skills

Cost management principles

Bill of Quantities

Contractual entitlement

Feasibility cost estimation

Multidisciplinary railway projects

Education

C Eng / BEng / BA / BSc in cost management or related discipline

Job 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

The Senior Cost Manager is responsible for cost control on behalf of the Contracting Entity, managing a team of Intermediate Cost Managers/Quantity Surveyors in ensuring effective cost estimation and control of spend, and ensuring payments are compliant with the contracting reimbursement principles (schedules of rates, bills of quantity, materials on and off site payments, etc.), as well as monitoring the anticipated final project costs. In doing so, the Senior Cost Manager will provide cost management and cost advice to the Claims, Contract Management and Project Management team, and ensure that the Contracting Entity achieves the project’s budgetary goals and objectives.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Lead preparation of feasibility, preliminary design and final design cost estimates, for multidisciplinary railway projects.
• Assess on and off site materials, monthly payment certificates and package final accounts, as well as monitoring the anticipate final project costs and making recommendations for monthly payments or final accounts due ensuring Contractual Entitlement.
• Undertake or review measurement of designs and on-site works completed.
• Develop the schedule of rates or Bill of Quantities.

Experience:

• Must have a clear understanding of, and ability to work with, construction contract commercial documents, drawings and specifications.
• Strong experience of delivering technically complex and high value infrastructure projects
• Experience of working in a comparable consultancy environment, or with a client or
• contractor organisation
• Knowledge of cost management principles, methods, techniques and tools, including the standard method of measurement
• Knowledge of policy and procedure implementation

Qualifications

• 10 years’ experience, at least 3+ years within the transport infrastructure industry with a focus on multidisciplinary railway projects.
• C Eng / BEng / BA / BSc cost management, quantity surveying, estimating management or in a related discipline.

Additional Information

What we offer you:

• Full time
• Competitive remuneration and attractive range of benefits
• 23days Annual leave (+ 2 company days)
• Opportunity to work on impactful and innovative projects
• Career development opportunities both in Ireland and globally
• Opportunity to work with a diverse group of talented and collaborative colleagues

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