Senior Cost Manager - Infrastructure Construction Projects, Monterrey

Turner & Townsend; Monterrey; Presencial; MXN 600.000 - 850.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Cost Manager in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. The role requires 8-12 years of cost management experience, with responsibilities including conducting feasibility studies, managing procurement processes, and ensuring accurate cost forecasting. A Bachelor's degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, or similar is required, along with certifications like RICS. Candidates should be fluent in English and Spanish, and possess strong communication and management skills. The company promotes a flexible work environment and is committed to inclusivity.

Formación

• 8-12 years professional experience related to Cost Management.
• RICS, AACE Certifications/Memberships.
• Fluent in English and Spanish.
• Ability to work under pressure to deliver deadlines.

Responsabilidades

• Conduct feasibility studies and write procurement reports.
• Review construction plans and prepare quantity take-offs.
• Prepare and review detailed estimates and cost plans.
• Manage estimating and cost planning activities.
• Apply Value Management techniques at the project outset.
• Manage the procurement process and participate in negotiations.
• Ensure post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively.

Conocimientos

Client management

Change management

Teamwork

Strong Microsoft Excel skills

PowerPoint skills

CostX

Knowledge of AutoCAD

Communication skills

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Architecture

Descripción del empleo

• Full-time

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.
Please visit our website:www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

*Activities might change accordingly.

• Conducting feasibility studies and writing procurementreports;
• Review construction plans and preparing quantity take-offs, along with Contract Preparation and Management
• Prepare and review detailed estimates and cost plans
• Managing estimating and cost planning activities to include taking ownership of and presenting the final costplan;
• Applying Value Management techniques at the outset of a project and whereappropriate involvingTurner & Townsend’s specialist Value Managementteam;
• Managing the procurement process, implementing procurement, and contracting strategies andparticipatein negotiations ensuring that all stages including pre-qualification, enquiry, analysis, perform bid evaluations and cost negotiations selection and contract preparation are performed effectively and RFPs revisions andevaluation;
• Ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively, documenting any changes in design, and updatingbudgets;
• Ensuring that cost checking and valuation work is managedeffectively;
• Preparing and issuingmonthly post-contract cost reports and presenting them to theclient;
• Value engineering and life cycle costing,drive value engineering and offer cost insights to support businessdecisions;
• Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated andagreed;
• Establish andmaintainprofessional relationships with external and internal stakeholders, taking a lead role in interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages, and report to senior leadership on current estimated cost vs. budget, and advise managers and clients on improvements and newstrategies;
• Whereappropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all their assigned tasks andaccountabilities;
• Staff management (whereappropriate)–Inputting into the formal management of a Cost Manager or small cost management team, to include 1st round recruitment interviews, input into resource management and attendance at junior staffappraisals;
• Knowledge management –Ensuring that key information and lessons learnt aregenerated from each commissionand are includedwithinTurner & Townsend internaldatabase;
• Financial management–UtilizingFinancial Management Systems to keep track of the ongoing margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts for eachcommission;
• Process improvement –Identifying and acting upon ways to improve internal systems andprocesses;
• Liaise with site managers, clients, contractors, andsubcontractors;
• Prepare reports, analyses, contracts, budgets, risk assessment, and otherdocuments;
• Review and approve subcontractor proposals, manage contracts, and changerequest;
• Review and approve payment applications,monitorinvoicing, and ensure payments areaccurateand processed in line with theContract;
• Advise the Project Manager/ Clientof anyforecasted unforeseen costorover expenditure and proposes correctiveactions;
• Travel from the office to various sitelocationswhen or ifrequiredor bewilling to bebased onsite;
• TheCandidateis required tocarry out all tasksand obligationsin accordance withtheirprofessional level and to Turner & Townsend’s quality standards.

Qualifications

• 8-12yearsprofessional experience related to CostManagement;
• Bachelor’s degree inQuantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Architecture, or any degree relevant to the position;
• RICS, AACECertifications/Memberships;
• Fluent inEnglish andSpanish;
• Ability to work under pressure to deliverdeadlines;
• Good communicationskillsand has experience explaining concepts,methodologiesand their deliverables toClients;
• Strong client management, change management and teamwork& team managementskills;
• Strong Microsoft skills, specifically excel & PowerPoint,CostX, Knowledge of AutoCAD.

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.

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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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.