Associate Director Cost Management
Turner & Townsend
- San Diego, CA
- $160,000-175,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Strong leadership skills; experience leading a Cost Management team, ensuring they deliver on all accountabilities.
- Taking a lead role in interfacing with the client, stakeholders and other consultants, at all project stages.
- Identifying opportunities to improve cost management procedures, templates and products.
- Knowledge management – Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each commission is inputted into internal databases and shared.
- Process improvement – Identifying and acting upon ways to improve internal systems and processes.
- Taking responsibility for developing new business opportunities with existing and new Turner & Townsend clients.
- Identifying and acting upon cross-selling opportunities.
- Lead proposals for new work or variations for existing projects.
- Attending relevant networking events and other promotional opportunities.
- Staff management – Inputting into the formal management of staff and recruitment interviews.
- Undertake Staff Performance reviews.
- Financial management – Utilizing the tools provided keep track of the ongoing margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts for each commission
- Review and participate with the design services team and general contractor, in the development of the cost estimates.
- Reconcile changes that occur over the planning phase and assist the general contractor to ensure that their data is accurate.
- Quality Control – Ensuring compliance with quality standards and participation in ISO audits.
- Communicate or meet with general contractor and owner project manager to gather status information to prepare a cost estimate update.
- Prepare written comments to the general contractor’s submissions, including the executive summary. Coordinate all sources of cost information for cost discussions and suppliers direct from NPA, subs, quantities from A/Es,
- Inform and drive engineering priorities based on cost impact.
- Provide estimate and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
- Work proactively with minimal supervision to resolve scheduling issues.
- Manage cost checks and carry out valuations on larger projects. Complete timely, accurate cost checking and valuation processes.
- Participate effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes.
- Manage Cost impact / contingency management and commitment tracking logs.
- Prepare funding data presentations and coordinate VE sessions with stakeholders.
- Commissions are managed to the right quality standards and are completed efficiently and on time.
- Service delivery on commissions is in line with the conditions of appointment.
- Strong relationships are developed with clients and cross-functional team members.
- The team is effectively led.
- Line management responsibilities are effectively discharged.
- Business development opportunities with existing and new clients, including cross- selling opportunities, are identified and acted upon.
- Margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts are kept track of on all commissions.
- Key information and data is effectively cascaded and appropriately retained.
- Demonstrates excellent presentation, verbal, written, and communication skills.
- Solid technical experience in all cost management areas; planning, estimating, pre-contract post contract and final account.
- Ability to estimate at conceptual, programming, and detailed level.
- Understands cost (material prices, labor, productivities) as well as commit profiles, cashflow, LLE dates, and overall project cost.
- Experience preparing Cost Management estimates and reports.
- Experience with advising clients on value management, value engineering, and life cycle costing.
- Experience with key aspects of business development.
- Good organization skills, ability to multi-task, and be a team player.
- Proficient with collaborative, cloud-based software including Costx or other related computer software.
- SME in Quantity Surveying
- RICS or equivalent accreditation.
- Proficiency with Microsoft/ G-suite of applications.
- Strong analytical skills and, advanced proficiency using spreadsheets.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
- Drive to be proactive and self-motivated.
- The tenacity and ambition to inject value and create solutions.
- Ability to develop good working relationships with project teams.
- College or post-graduate degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field with a technical focus or related technical field.
- Relevant experience in the construction industry.
- Minimum of 8 years relevant experience estimating large, mission critical construction projects such as Data Centers, High Tech, Manufacturing, industrial or relatable is required.
- MEP experience is beneficial; Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing estimating experience within the construction industry.