Senior Cost Manager - Data Centers
Turner & Townsend
Senior Cost Manager - Data Centers
Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Cost Manager with at least 5 years of post-graduate experience in construction cost management, ideally on mission-critical data center or large-scale commercial projects. The role involves managing cost plans, estimating, change orders, and cost reporting throughout the project lifecycle, with a focus on pre-contract and post-contract activities. The position is based in Amsterdam and requires fluency in Dutch.
Senior Cost Manager - Data Centers
Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Cost Manager with at least 5 years of post-graduate experience in construction cost management, ideally on mission-critical data center or large-scale commercial projects. The role involves managing cost plans, estimating, change orders, and cost reporting throughout the project lifecycle, with a focus on pre-contract and post-contract activities. The position is based in Amsterdam and requires fluency in Dutch.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Key Responsibilities
- Estimating and negotiating change orders throughout the construction lifecycle.
- Provide estimate and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
- Review and participate with the design services team and general contractor in the development of the cost estimates.
- Reconcile changes and assist the general contractor to ensure that their data is accurate.
- 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.
- 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.
- Developing cost plans and estimates through the design phase, delivering updated cost plans at appropriate design milestones.
- Providing commercial input to design optioneering and input into value engineering exercises.
- Reviewing contractor and subcontractor pricing and leading negotiations on behalf of the client to drive fair contract prices.
- Performing quantity surveying, cost controls and change management activities throughout the project lifecycle.
- Ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively.
- Ensuring that cost auditing and valuation work is managed effectively and that a robust process for cost validation is in place.
- Carrying out the production of monthly cost reports for presentation to the client.
- Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed in a timely manner.
- Compiling as built cost estimate records for benchmarking purposes.