Role Overview
As a Cost Manager, you will manage the core cost management services for complex construction projects, including mission-critical data centre developments, ensuring cost, quality, risk, and governance objectives are achieved. You will play a key role in supporting Turner & Townsend鈥檚 clients through the full project lifecycle, delivering best-in-class commercial outcomes while fostering a collaborative, high-performing project environment.
Project Support & Cost Management
- Deliver pre-contract and post-contract cost management services across construction projects, including data centres, critical facilities, and infrastructure-led developments.
- Prepare order-of-cost estimates, cost plans, and elemental cost analyses, with a strong understanding of CSA and MEP-heavy cost structures typical of data centre projects.
- Undertake rate analysis, benchmarking, and cost modelling for specialist packages such as MEP systems, electrical infrastructure, cooling systems, and fit-out works.
- Lead tendering and procurement activities, including: Pre-qualification and tender strategy development, preparation of preliminaries and tender documentation, tender analysis, clarification, and recommendation reports,
- Support change control and post-contract cost management, managing variations, compensation events, and cost impacts arising from design development and client changes, escalating major issues where required.
Governance, Reporting & Client Interface
- Prepare monthly post-contract cost reports, cashflows, and forecasts, supporting formal client presentations and governance reviews.
- Provide commercial input into Value Engineering and cost optimisation exercises, particularly for high-value MEP and specialist trade packages common in data centre projects.
- Interface professionally with clients, consultants, contractors, and specialist vendors at all project stages.
- Support Turner & Townsend鈥檚 commercial governance, risk management, and cost assurance standards on live projects.
- Identify opportunities to improve cost management processes, templates, benchmarking data, and digital tools, sharing best practices within the business.
- Contribute to knowledge management, ensuring project data, lessons learned, and cost intelligence are captured in Turner & Townsend鈥檚 internal systems.
- Collaborate effectively within the cost management team and, where appropriate, provide guidance and oversight to Assistant Cost Managers.