Cost Manager/Senior Cost Manager, Infrastructure

Turner & Townsend; Singapore; Sur place; SGD 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Turner & Townsend in Singapore is seeking a Cost Manager – Cost Management to lead cost control on major construction projects. You will apply your expertise in estimating, cost planning, tendering, and post‑contract cost management to deliver reliable cost outcomes.

You will collaborate with clients and consultants, produce monthly cost reports, support value engineering, and mentor junior team members. A strong English proficiency and solid experience in cost management are essential for

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cost Management or related field.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in cost management or construction projects.
• Native-level English proficiency and strong communication skills.

Responsabilités

• Project support and cost coordination across pre- and post-contract stages.
• Produce monthly cost reports and assist in client presentations.
• Support tendering, cost planning and procurement activities.
• Collaborate with the cost management team and mentor junior staff.

Connaissances

Cost management

Communication

English fluency

Interpersonal skills

Formation

Bachelors degree

Masters preferred

Outils

Cost-X

Estimating tools

Description du poste

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

Cost Manager – Cost Management

Role Overview

As a Cost Manager, you are expected to manage the core functions of cost management services for construction projects, ensuring cost control and quality objectives are met. You are expected to ensure that client objectives are met through the delivery of an effective cost management service and foster a collaborative and high-performing project environment.

Key Responsibilities

Project support and coordination

• Possesses in-depth knowledge of pre-contract and post-contract cost management services.
• Experienced in estimating, rate analysis, and cost planning, with the ability to develop and present final cost plans to clients.
• Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
• Tendering and procurement, 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 support in change control processes, where applicable referring major changes to reporting manager.

Governance & Reporting

• Producing monthly post contract cost reports and supporting the presentation to the client.
• Provide inputs to Value Engineering exercises, where applicable.
• Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages.
• 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 Turner & Townsend internal database.
• Collaborate to deliver our best work – Work as an effective member of the cost management team, including where appropriate, taking effective responsibility for Assistant Cost Managers.

Qualifications

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Cost Management, Quantity Surveying, Construction, Engineering, or a related field; Master’s degree is a plus.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in cost management or construction projects (e.g. cost manager, construction manager, procurement, project manager, vendor, consultant etc.).
• Strong understanding of quantity surveying, tools, and methodologies.
• Native-level proficiency in English.
• Proficiency in Cost-X or equivalent cost estimation software.
• Proficient communication and interpersonal skills.

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