Cost Manager Industrial and Data Center Projects - Construction Projects, Mexico
Turner & Townsend is a integral professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries, working across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources. Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
Job Description
This is an on‑site role based in Mexico and requires travel to various sites as needed.
Responsibilities
- Conducting feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
- Applying Value Management techniques at the outset of a project and involving Turner & Townsend’s specialist Value Management team where appropriate
- Managing estimating and cost planning activities, taking ownership of and presenting the final cost plan
- Managing the procurement process, implementing procurement and contracting strategies, and participating in negotiations to ensure all stages—including pre‑qualification, enquiry, analysis, bid evaluations, cost negotiations and contract preparation—are performed effectively and RFP revisions and evaluation are handled
- Ensuring that post‑contract cost variances and change‑control processes are managed effectively, documenting changes in design and updating budgets
- Ensuring that cost checking and valuation work is managed effectively
- Ensuring the production of monthly post‑contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
- Value engineering and life‑cycle costing; driving value engineering and offering cost insights to support business decisions
- Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed
- Establishing and maintaining professional relationships with external and internal stakeholders, taking a lead role in interfacing with the client and other consultants at all project stages, reporting to senior leadership on current estimated cost vs. budget, and advising managers and clients on improvements and new strategies
- Where appropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all above accountabilities
- Staff management (where appropriate) – entering into the formal management of a Cost Manager or small cost management team, including 1st‑round recruitment interviews, input into resource management and attendance at junior staff appraisals
- Knowledge management – ensuring that key information and lessons learned generated from each commission are entered into the Turner & Townsend internal database
- Financial management – utilising Financial Management Systems to track ongoing margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts for each commission
- Process improvement – identifying and acting upon ways to improve internal systems and processes
- Reviewing construction plans and preparing quantity take‑offs, along with contract preparation and management
- Preparing and reviewing detailed estimates and cost plans
- Liaising with site managers, clients, contractors, and subcontractors
- Preparing reports, analyses, contracts, budgets, risk assessment and other documents
- Developing the cost procedures
- Reviewing and approving subcontractor proposals, managing contracts and change requests
- Reviewing and approving payment applications, monitoring invoicing and ensuring payments are in order
- Advising the Project Manager of any foreseen cost over‑expenditure and proposing corrective actions
- Reviewing monthly reports presented by contractor and presenting them to the client
- Traveling from the office to various sites as required or being based on site
- The job holder is required to carry out all tasks within his/her level of skill and ability
Qualifications
- Minimum 8 years of professional experience related to Engineering Cost Management
- Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Architecture, or any degree relevant to the position
- RICS, AACE certifications or memberships
- Fluent in English and Spanish
- Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines
- Good communication skills to systematically explain concepts and methodology
- Strong client management, change management and teamwork skills
- Strong Microsoft skills, specifically Excel and PowerPoint; experience with CostX and knowledge of AutoCAD
Additional Information
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. Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CVs that have not followed due process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask a candidate to pay a fee at any time. Any unsolicited resumes or CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e‑mail accounts are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to the payment of agency fees.
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