Cost Manager - Civil - Assam

Company Description

Working in partnership with our clients, we deliver major projects and programmes with skill and precision, by focusing on outcomes and driving high performance. 

Delivering innovative solutions and exceptional outcomes across our sectors, we drive the success of our client’s projects and programmes through effective planning, highly skilled teams, and rigorous controls.

Our capabilities include asset management, controls and performance, cost and commercial management, digital, procurement and supply chain, programme advisory, project management and sustainability. Backed by our extensive experience, we focus on outcomes to transform client’s projects and programmes.

With over 133 offices across 47 countries, we are an organisation of over GBP 1.5 billion turnover and 12,000+ talented team members across the world.  In 2025, we are combining with CBRE’s Project Management business to create the premier, differentiated programme, project, and cost management capability globally.  Through this change, our profile in Asia will scale significantly, comprising a team of over 4000 staff across all major countries in region.  The combination of our programme management and project management and commercial management capabilities will provide a unique opportunity to do things for our clients.

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• To perform the role of the Commission Manager, taking responsibility for end to end service delivery.
• To ensure that client objectives are met through the delivery of an effective cost management service.
• To handle commissions of varying sizes, depending upon the complexity of the project.

Responsibilities:

• Assisting on feasibility studies and writing procurement reports.
• 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, putting the preliminaries together, 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
• Where appropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring they deliver on all of the above accountabilities
• Involved in complete lifecycle of the project
• Supporting technical design briefs, analyse designs and coordinate with multiple vendors
• Experience in sustainability / LEED & other concepts
• Review technical specifications, interpret contracts and participate in technical & commercial negotiations with the vendors
• Lead a team & be able to supervise & coordinate onsite construction activities
• Review and analyze all drawings and material schedule with involvement in the supervision of the site activities and to control cost and ensure timely completion of the project.
• Coordinate with client, consultant, suppliers, site engineers, & various subcontractors at site. Checking and preparing VO, negotiation with sub-con and client.
• Provide interpretations of plans, project scope, detail sheets and specifications for contractors/sub-contractors and  engineers to ensure a comprehensive and mutual understanding of the project plan.
• Identifying opportunities to develop new business with existing clients and reporting such opportunities to the appropriate line manager and by making effective use of the marketing database
• Assisting in the production of bid documentation
• Identifying ways in which cost management procedures, templates and products can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager
• Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each commission is input into the Turner & Townsend internal database
• Identifying ways in which internal systems and processes can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager.
• Knowledge of compliancesprocesses and requirement for a project

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• Education – Diploma/B.E/B.Tech (Civil)
• You should have relevant experience of working preferably for a construction consultancy in India/abroad, hold a graduate degree preferably in Cost Management and possesses good technical skills.
• A thorough understanding of the total project life cycle, from project conception stage, through all of the operational stages to completion and post-project review.
• Around 10 years work experience with demonstrated career growth graph.

Experience in multiple sub sectors within the property projects will be added advantage.

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.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com

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