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.
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.
Job Description
Turner & Townsend alinea are looking for Assistant Cost Managers to join our dynamic award winning, Cost Management team in our Cambridge Office, working within Turner & Townsend alinea's Real Estate team. There are long term secured frameworks with national and regional organisations within the following sectors - Retail, Commercial, Industrial, Education, Healthcare and Defence.
You will have a fantastic opportunity to progress within our business and receive professional investment from the company as well as a competitive salary and benefits package. You must be able to demonstrate consultancy experience and have professional membership of the RICS (or working towards this).
Job Objectives
* Assisting on 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
* Taking personal 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
* Negotiating and agreeing final accounts
* Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages
* Where appropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all of the above accountabilities
Qualifications
* Good technical grounding in all of the main areas of cost management and contractor a background
* Experience of acting as Commission Manager on small to medium sized projects, or at least sufficient related experience to enable a step up to performing the role of Commission Manager
* Good knowledge of the main procurement methods and their application with respect to the 'tactical procurement' of small to medium sized buildings
* Knowledge and understanding of value engineering
* Experience of utilising a range of industry standard processes and systems (IT and other) in order to effectively deliver a project.
* Working towards Chartership
* Degree or HNC level qualification
* Ability to successfully manage and prioritise more than one project at a time.
Additional Information
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
Turner & Townsend is strictly against candidates paying any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.
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