Mercado Imobiliário – Cost Manager – Real Estate – Turner & Townsend – São Paulo

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide.

Job Description

Experience with Life Science projects is a plus.

• 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 that they deliver on all the above accountabilities
• Marketing and business development, to include:
• 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 Internal management accountabilities, to include:
• Knowledge management – Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each commission is input into the Turner & Townsend internal database
• Financial management – Utilizing FMS to keep track of the ongoing margin levels
• Process improvement – Identifying ways in which internal systems and processes can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager REPORTING
• Depending upon context, a Cost Manager is likely to report to a Senior Cost Manager, Area Manager or Associate Director.

Responsibilities Include But Are Not Limited To

• Prepare estimations according to all design phases.
• Monitor, control and prepare Valuations
• Participate to value engineering sessions
• Prepare and analyse change orders
• Develop the primary project budget
• Develop progress measurement criteria with vendors
• Collect cost market data
• Support quotation process responding to the questions of services/materials proponents
• Produce cash flow forecasts for internal and client purposes
• Quantify materials and labour for all phases of a project.
• Prepare Cost benefit analysis
• Review project budget after design packages issuance by the technical team
• Collaborate with the creation of the recommendation report
• Participate in the weekly project and departmental meetings
• Issue weekly progress reports on project costs including forecasting reimbursable expenses

Qualifications

• Degree-qualified or equivalent in Quantity Surveyor, Engineering, Architecture.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in similar roles.
• Working towards RICS membership or recently chartered
• Conversant in all aspects of quantity surveying
• Experience in utilizing software systems e.g., Cost X, CATO, BIM (Building Information Modelling) Measure
• Experience in utilizing Excel advanced level
• Experience in utilizing AutoCAD.
• Fluent in English
• Experience working on larger projects of £10m value or over (or equivalent)
• Experience working on new build and fit-out projects
• Excellent communication skills and client facing