Cost Management Associate: Feasibility, Tendering & Valuation

Turner & Townsend; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in Singapore is seeking a Cost Consultant to support Commission Manager across feasibility studies, cost planning, procurement, tender analysis and post-contract cost management. The role emphasizes producing cost plans, reports and final accounts with strong stakeholder interaction.

The candidate should have 2–5 years of relevant experience, degree in QS/Cost management or engineering, and excellent communication and negotiation skills.

Qualifications

• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Cost Management/Engineering or equivalent.
• 2–5 years of experience in related fields.
• Experience in infrastructure, commercial fit out, industrial, healthcare, data centres or semi conductor projects as a cost consultant preferred.
• Excellent technical knowledge across cost management duties including: cost estimates, bills of quantities, value engineering, tendering and evaluation, contract knowledge, change orders and final accounts.
• Team player with excellent leadership and problem solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to negotiate, influence and persuade others.

Responsibilities

• Conduct background research, data collection and benchmarking.
• To conduct feasibility studies and writing procurement reports.
• 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, putting the preliminaries together, 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.
• 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.
• Assisting in the production of bid documentation.
• Identifying ways in which cost management procedures, templates and products can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager.
• Knowledge management - Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each commission is input into the internal database.
• Financial management - Keeping track of the ongoing margin levels.

Skills

Communication skills

Leadership

Negotiation

Problem solving

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying, Cost Management/Engineering or equivalent

Job description

Turner & Townsend in Singapore is seeking a Cost Consultant to support Commission Manager across feasibility studies, cost planning, procurement, tender analysis and post-contract cost management. The role emphasizes producing cost plans, reports and final accounts with strong stakeholder interaction.

The candidate should have 2–5 years of relevant experience, degree in QS/Cost management or engineering, and excellent communication and negotiation skills.