Senior Cost Manager: Pre-Con (Data Centers)

Linesight; San Francisco (CA); Sur place; USD 108 000 - 145 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Linesight, a global project and cost management consultancy, seeks a Senior Cost Manager in San Francisco to lead pre-contract cost management, budgeting, and tender analysis. You will guide cost planning, change management, and final accounts, ensuring value for money across major projects.

The role emphasizes leadership, mentorship, and client-focused cost control. This senior position requires excellent communication skills, experience in consultancy, and the ability to manage multiple

Qualifications

• Experience in tender/bid processes from documentation through analysis and reporting.
• Strong ability to manage change processes that affect project cost.
• Ability to analyse tenders/bids to ensure client value for money.
• Experience in preparing and agreeing final accounts and handling claims to ensure client value.

Responsabilités

• Actively participate in the tender/bid process from initial tender through analysis and reporting.
• Manage the change management process—identify, analyze, approve, and implement changes affecting cost.
• Analyse tenders/bids to ensure client value for money.
• Assist in the preparation and agreement of final accounts and handling of claims for best value.
• Create estimates and cost plans for key client developments.
• Oversee project spend by creating valuations and cost reports and communicate variations clearly.
• Support documentation and timely communication to enable nimble project decisions.
• Assist in settlement of construction disputes and loss/expense claims with transparency.
• Foster top performance and growth through mentorship and leadership.

Connaissances

Cost management

Pre-contract cost management

Budget control

Change management

Formation

Bachelor's degree in construction management or related field

Description du poste

Overview

As a Senior Cost Manager at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. You will be mentored and supported by industry leaders and given the tools to grow. You will also be involved in and contribute to our business strategy as we continue to evolve. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

The Opportunity

In this role you will:

• Actively participate in the tender/bid process--from initial tender/bid documentation through analysis and reporting
• Manage the change management process - identifying, analyzing, approving, and implementing changes that affect the project cost
• Analyse tenders/bids to ensure client value for money
• Assist in the preparation and agreement of final accounts, including the handling of any claims to ensure the client gets best value from works undertaken
• Create estimates and cost plans for key client developments
• Oversee project spend by creating valuations and cost reports, and clearly communicate variations to your team
• Support nimble project management and clear decisions through excellent cost documentation and timely communication
• Support the settlement of construction disputes/loss and expense claims with transparency
• Foster top performance and growth for your employees via excellent mentorship and leadership

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Have experience as a Senior Cost Manager, ideally from a consultancy background
• Have experience in pre-contract cost management while being experienced in budget control, cost planning, preparing and initiating change forms for discussion with other project stakeholders while being knowledgeable on alternative construction materials
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• Have a degree or comparable experience in a project management or construction discipline
• Are an excellent communicator verbally and in writing
• Love a dynamic environment with the opportunity to manage your own priorities and deadlines
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All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.

The salary range for this role is between $108,000 to $145,067 but actual salary offered is dependent on experience, skill set and education.

About Us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment.We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!