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Turner & Townsend

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10,000+ employees

🏗️ Construction

💼 Consulting

🏠 Real Estate

Construction • Consulting • Real Estate

Turner & Townsend is a global consultancy business that serves clients in the real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors. With a commitment to building trust between clients, suppliers, governments, and society, they focus on delivering better outcomes that positively impact the world. Their specialities include programme strategy and setup, programme management, cost and commercial management, project management, procurement, safety, health and quality, controls and performance, technology and data, and advisory services. With 75 years of experience, Turner & Townsend aims to transform performance for a greener, more inclusive, and productive world.

📋 Description

• Advise clients on procurement strategies and manage vendor prequalification, proposals, bids, bid leveling, interviews, and appointments • Manage full-project estimating for construction, fees, direct work, and other costs • Review junior team members’ estimates and present estimates, value engineering recommendations, and risk assessments to clients • Review, validate, and challenge vendor costs using benchmark data from other projects • Establish cost-reporting schedules and review and present cost reports and forecasts • Review project budgets and spend forecasts with clients and maintain commercial risk registers • Host periodic meetings with project teams and vendors • Manage cost control, including payment application assessments, contractor entitlements, change orders, payment requisitions, and contractual disputes • Manage and monitor invoicing • Benchmark performance against successful commissions • Manage final accounting, post-contract audits, and account closeouts • Conduct post-contract reviews, document lessons learned, and create training materials • Develop project handover procedures • Use and prepare Bid Analysis Sheets, Change Control Forms, Cost Estimating Software, and Take-off Software • Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a construction-related field • Minimum 3–5 years of relevant experience in a construction-industry cost management role • RICS accredited or working towards RICS accreditation is valuable • Experience supporting cost management on medium- or large-sized building construction, renovation, retrofit, or capital improvement projects • Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred • Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, including procurement routes, value management, and value engineering • Strong communication skills • Ability to use or prepare Bid Analysis Sheets, Change Control Forms, Cost Estimating Software, and Take-off Software • Ability to adhere to applicable SOX controls

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonuses may be available • Comprehensive benefits package • Flexible working environment • Work-life balance support • Opportunity to affect change • Inclusive and diverse workplace • Confidentiality according to EEO guidelines