Cost Manager CSA

Turner & Townsend Limited; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company specializing in project management and cost consultancy is seeking a Quantity Surveyor. You will be responsible for managing project costs, preparing estimates, and interfacing with clients to ensure successful outcomes. The ideal candidate will possess at least 5 years of related experience and have strong technical knowledge in cost management practices.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years' experience in related fields.
• Excellent technical knowledge in Cost Management duties.
• Familiar with BIM for costing purposes.

Responsibilities

• Conduct feasibility studies and writing procurement reports.
• Manage tendering and procurement processes.
• Produce and present monthly post contract cost reports.

Skills

Leadership

Problem Solving

Communication

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying, Cost Management/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Building Information Modeling (BIM)

Job description

Working in partnership with our clients, we deliver major projects and programmes with skill and precision, by focusing on outcomes and driving high performance.

Delivering innovative solutions and exceptional outcomes across our sectors, we drive the success of our client’s projects and programmes through effective planning, highly skilled teams, and rigorous controls.

Our capabilities include asset management, controls and performance, cost and commercial management, digital, procurement and supply chain, programme advisory, project management and sustainability. Backed by our extensive experience, we focus on outcomes to transform client’s projects and programmes.

With over 133 offices across 47 countries, we are an organisation of over GBP 1.5 billion turnover and 12,000+ talented team members across the world. In 2025, we are combining with CBRE’s Project Management business to create the premier, differentiated programme, project, and cost management capability globally. Through this change, our profile in Asia will scale significantly, comprising a team of over 4000 staff across all major countries in region. The combination of our programme management and project management and commercial management capabilities will provide a unique opportunity to do things for our clients.

Job Description

• 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
• Process improvement – Identifying ways in which internal systems and processes can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager

Qualifications

• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Cost Management/Engineering or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years' experience in related fields
• Excellent technical knowledge and experience across the full range of Cost Management duties including: Cost Estimates, Bills of Quantities, Value Engineering, Tendering and Evaluation, Contract Knowledge, Change Orders and Final Account close-out
• Candidates with experience in infrastructure, mixed development, hi tech manufacturing, corporate real estate, public sector project experience are preferred.
• Familiar with Building Information Modeling (BIM) for costing purpose (i.e.Cost X, etc.)
• Experience from consultancy background.
• Team player with excellent leadership and problem solving skills
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to negotiate, influence and persuade others

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