Senior Cost Manager

2 months ago


Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Turner & Townsend Full time
Job Description

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor at Turner & Townsend, you will play a critical role in ensuring the successful delivery of construction projects. Your expertise in cost management, estimating, and quantity surveying will be essential in driving project profitability and minimizing risks.

Key Responsibilities
  • Pre-Contract: Develop cost plans and estimates through the design phase, delivering updated cost plans at appropriate design milestones.
  • Pre-Contract: Provide commercial input to design optioneering and input into value engineering exercises.
  • Pre-Contract: Review contractor and subcontractor pricing and lead negotiations on behalf of the client to drive fair contract prices.
  • Post-Contract: Perform quantity surveying, cost controls, and change management activities throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Post-Contract: Ensure that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively.
  • Post-Contract: Ensure that cost auditing and valuation work is managed effectively and that a robust process for cost validation is in place.
  • Post-Contract: Carry out the production of monthly cost reports for presentation to the client.
  • Post-Contract: Ensure that final accounts are negotiated and agreed in a timely manner.
  • Post-Contract: Compile as-built cost estimate records for benchmarking purposes.
Requirements
  • Qualified to professional standard in Quantity Surveying with membership of an appropriate professional body and/or educated to degree level.
  • Relevant successful experience of provision of estimating and/or QS services in a mining environment to high-profile or complex major projects or programmes.
  • Knowledge of project management, planning, risk, and investment processes.
  • A strong technical cost management or estimating competency is essential.
  • Must have knowledge in the use and benefits of cost management systems.
  • Strong knowledge of construction contracts, JBCC, NEC3/4, and FIDIC.

Desirable: Demonstrable experience in managing and leading large teams and successful setting and implementation of business strategy.

Additional Information: Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and aim to create a workplace that reflects the diversity of our clients and the communities we serve.


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