Cost Manager – Life Sciences Construction
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Cost Manager overseeing estimating, procurement, cost control, and closeout for life sciences construction projects. Supporting Turner & Townsend’s global professional services and project management operations.
Responsibilities:
- Advise clients on procurement strategies and manage vendor prequalification processes
- Assess proposals, bids, and bid leveling documentation; make recommendations; attend bid interviews; and support contract awards
- Manage estimating services throughout the project lifecycle
- Develop construction estimates, review junior team members’ estimates, present estimates and cost plans to clients, perform benchmark analysis, and provide value engineering recommendations and risk assessments
- Meet with contractors, consultants, and vendors to review, validate, and challenge project costs and commercial assumptions
- Establish cost reporting schedules; prepare and present cost reports and forecasts; review budgets and spend forecasts; maintain commercial risk registers; and facilitate project cost reviews
- Manage cost control processes, including payment application reviews, contractor entitlement assessments, change order evaluations, and commercial recommendations
- Support contract administration and dispute avoidance
- Manage and monitor project invoicing processes
- Benchmark project performance against historical and comparable projects
- Manage final account negotiations, post-contract audits, and project closeout activities
- Conduct lessons learned reviews and support implementation of best practices
- Develop procedures governing project handover and closeout activities
- Utilize cost estimating software, takeoff software, bid analysis tools, and change management documentation
- Collaborate with project managers, designers, contractors, vendors, and client stakeholders
- Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Cost Management, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, Architecture, or a related construction discipline
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience in cost management, quantity surveying, estimating, or commercial management within the construction industry
- Experience supporting medium to large-scale construction projects
- Experience supporting life sciences, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, laboratory, healthcare, advanced manufacturing, industrial, or highly technical construction projects is preferred
- RICS accreditation or progress toward accreditation is valued
- Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred
- Good understanding of construction procurement methods, value engineering, cost planning, and commercial management practices
- Experience preparing estimates, managing budgets, reviewing change orders, and producing cost reports throughout the project lifecycle
- Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with multidisciplinary project teams
Benefits:
- Employees can work remotely
- Healthy, productive and flexible working environment
- Work-life balance support
- Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace
- Confidential handling of information according to EEO guidelines
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