Senior Cost Manager

TURNER & TOWNSEND PTE. LIMITED; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TURNER & TOWNSEND PTE. LIMITED is recruiting an experienced Cost Manager in Singapore to lead cost control on major projects.

You will conduct feasibility studies, produce cost plans, manage tendering and procurement, and oversee post-contract cost variances and final accounts with a strong client focus and leadership capability. You will review BIM-based costing, ensure accurate valuations, and drive value engineering while interfacing with clients and other consultants at all stages of the

Qualifications

• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Cost Management or equivalent.
• Minimum 8 years' experience in cost and contract management of major construction projects as a cost consultant.
• Registered Quantity Surveyor with RICS or SISV or equivalent.
• Familiar with BIM for costing (Cost X, etc.).
• Excellent technical knowledge across Cost Management duties: Estimates, BOQ, VE, Tendering, Evaluation, Contract Knowledge, Change Orders, Final Account close-out.
• Team player with leadership and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Conduct feasibility studies and write procurement reports.
• Estimate and cost plan, producing and presenting the final cost plan.
• Tendering and procurement management: pre-qual, tender list, preliminaries, tender analysis, tender report, contractual documents.
• Manage post-contract cost variances and change control processes with line manager reference as needed.
• Perform cost checks and valuations on large projects ensuring timely and accurate documentation.
• Produce monthly post-contract cost reports and present to client.
• Contribute to value engineering and negotiate final accounts.
• Interface with client and other consultants at all project stages.
• Assist in bid documentation production and knowledge management for cost procedures.
• Identify improvements to cost management templates and processes; refer ideas to line manager.
• Maintain knowledge management input from each commission into internal database.
• Monitor ongoing margin levels and financial management.
• Suggest process improvements for internal systems.

Skills

Cost management

Tendering & evaluation

Change orders & final accounts

Team leadership

Problem solving

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying / Cost Management

RICS/SISV registration

Tools

CostX

Excel

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
• Financial management – Keeping track of the ongoing margin levels
• 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 8 years' experience in cost and contract management of major construction projects as a cost consultant
• Registered Quantity Surveyor with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) or Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers (SISV) or equivalent
• Familiar with Building Information Modeling (BIM) for costing purpose (i.e.Cost X, etc.);
• 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
• Team player with excellent leadership and problem solving skills