Job Description

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we\'re passionate about making the difference because we recognise our responsibility to lead the creation of a better industry through sustainable development. We are driven to help build a world where opportunities are open to all, people can live healthy, safe lives and society has a positive impact on the natural world around it. Through the commitment, capability and care our team brings, we build trust, deliver better outcomes for our clients, help our people to realise their potential, and do our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients transform performance of their ambitious and highly technical projects and programmes, in over 130 countries worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and supportive company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Our vision is based on the interconnected strands of being \'Green, Productive and Inclusive\' and we are now looking to expand our growing Life Science sector to meet the increasing demand across our varied and diverse client base.



Are you passionate about helping the real estate industry transition towards a greener and more productive future? Do you love a challenge?

Turner & Townsend is currently recruiting for all levels of Cost Managers to join our growing Life Science sector to work on major fit out and development projects for life science projects in both public and private sector organisations.

With a market leading client base and the opportunity to take the lead on immediate commissions, this is an exciting time to join the business unit and grow your career with Turner & Townsend.

This role is client facing, working within a professional and ambitious team, where you will receive excellent support. We have brought our brightest minds together to respond to our client\'s cost and procurement needs.

If you want to join a rapidly growing business where you will play a key part in shaping a consultancy offer, whilst delivering some of the most exciting and challenging net zero programmes on a global scale, we are looking for people just like you.

What will you be doing?

• Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
• Tendering and procuring, including managing the pre-qualification stage, producing the tender list, creating preliminaries, tender analysis, producing the tender report and compiling the contractual documents.
• Dealing effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes, where applicable referring major changes to line manager.
• Taking personal responsibility for making cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects and in all cases ensuring that timely and accurate cost checking and valuation takes place.
• Producing monthly post contract cost reports and presenting them to the client.
• Inputting into value engineering.
• Negotiating and agreeing final accounts.
• Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages.

Qualifications

What skills are we looking for and why?

• Ideally Degree qualified in one of the following fields: construction, cost management or Quantity surveying
• Ideally you will be MRICS or happy to work towards it
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering
• Ideally experience of working on in life science, heath / healthcare projects

What experience are we looking for and why?

• Detailed knowledge of and experience in large scale Life science sectors (public and private) is desirable
• Experience of master planning/strategic estate development and capital cost planning for business case compilation
• Experience of taking an effective lead on Two-Stage Tender agreements with strong negotiation and organisational skills
• Detailed experience of working with JCT and NEC contracts, with JCT contract administration experience desirable
• The candidate will be required to demonstrate knowledge of the risks, challenges and opportunities facing private and public-sector bodies
• Experience of using CostX or similar measurement software

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

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 CV\'s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list or that have not followed due process. Any speculative or unsolicited CV\'s will be treated as a direct application.

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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