Assistant Cost Manager - Urban Development Construction Projects

Sccsinternational; Chihuahua; On-site; MXN 650,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking an Assistant Cost Manager for Urban Development Construction Projects in Mexico. The role focuses on budgeting, cost control, and cash flow forecasting across design and construction phases.

You will support cost planning, valuations, and change management while collaborating with engineers, designers, and procurement teams to drive project success.

Qualifications

• Degree-qualified or equivalent in Quantity Surveying, Engineering, or Architecture.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in similar cost management roles.
• Knowledge of construction costs and project components.

Responsibilities

• Prepare estimations according to design phases.
• Monitor, control and prepare valuations.
• Participate in value engineering sessions.
• Prepare and analyse change orders.
• Develop the primary project budget.
• Develop progress measurement criteria with vendors.
• Collect cost market data.
• Support quotation process for services/materials.
• Produce cash flow forecasts for internal and client purposes.
• Quantify materials and labor for all project phases.
• Review project budget after design packages issued by the technical team.
• Contribute to recommendation reports.
• Participate in weekly project and departmental meetings.
• Issue weekly progress reports on project costs and forecast reimbursable expenses.

Skills

Budgeting

English fluency

Cost control

Negotiation

Financial reporting

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying / Engineering / Architecture

Tools

CostX

CATO

BIM Measure

Job description

Assistant Cost Manager - Urban Development Construction Projects

• Full-time

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

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Job Responsibilities

• Prepare estimations according to all designphase.
• Monitor,controland prepare Valuations.
• Participatetovalue engineering sessions.
• Prepare andanalysechange orders.
• Develop the primary project budget.
• Develop progress measurement criteria with vendors.
• Collectcostmarketdata.
• Support quotation process responding to the questions of services/materials proponents.
• Produce cash flow forecasts for internal and client purposes.
• Quantify materials andlabourfor all phases of a project.
• Review project budget after design packages issuance by the technical team.
• Collaborate with the creation of the recommendation report.
• Participate inthe weekly projectand departmental meetings.
• Issue weekly progress reports on project costs including forecasting reimbursable expenses.

Qualifications

• Degree-qualified or equivalent in Quantity Surveyor, Engineering, Architecture.
• Minimum3years of experience in similar roles.
• Knowledge and understanding of thecomponentparts of a project and overall construction costs
• Ability toanalyseand interpret commercial and technical project documentation
• Ability to use a range of IT packages including Microsoft Office
• Exceptionalrelationshipbuildingskills
• Self-motivatedand proactive
• Commercial awareness and understanding of the Construction process
• Negotiation skills and ability to apply those skills internally,externally& withour supply chain.
• Positive attitudeat all timesand the ability to integrate and play active part in the Construction Team
• Goodorganisationalskills and the ability toprioritiseto meet deadlines
• Keen to pursue personal development needs andmaintainup-to-date knowledge
• Fluentin English
• Working towards RICS membership or recently chartered
• Conversant in all aspects of quantity surveying
• Experience inutilisingsoftware systemse.g.CostX, CATO, BIM Measure

Company Culture

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.

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list or that have not followed due process. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application.

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property ofTurner & Townsend and arenot subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team,to submit candidates for review.

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