Director (m/f/d) Cost Management - Construction Projects, Zürich
vor 1 Tag
Client: Turner & Townsend
Location:
Job Category: Construction
Job Reference: d76363c08975
Job Views: 9
Posted: 21.01.2025
Expiry Date: 07.03.2025
Job Description:Company Description
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
We are seeking a Cost Management Director to deliver complex construction projects and act as the day-to-day interface with our clients driving projects to achieve excellent outcomes.
You will have Cost Management experience, and have worked on major construction projects in the Real Estate sector.
You will have broad experience in pre-contract cost planning and estimating activities, and post-contract commercial management. You will bring your practical expertise and best practice experience and be comfortable operating in a client-facing role, leading teams and managing complex stakeholder relationships.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide estimate and cost planning including producing and presenting the final estimate.
- Ability to estimate at conceptual, programming and detailed level.
- Compile feasibility studies.
- Perform all aspects of procurement, including managing the pre-qualification stage, produce tender lists, tender analysis, produce tender report, and compile contractual documents.
- Manage post contract cost variances and the change control processes.
- Manage cost checks and valuation deliverables on larger projects, and ensure timely and accurate cost checking, and valuation process.
- Produce monthly cost reports, including presenting to client.
- Lead value engineering initiatives and negotiate and settle final accounts.
- Maintain liaison with client and other consultants at all projects stages.
- Provide leadership to cost management team and ensure the delivery of appointed services scope.
- Identify opportunities to develop new business opportunities.
- Identify and implement improvements for cost management procedures, templates, and products.
Qualifications:
- Degree in Quantity Surveying, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.
- Minimum of 10 years' experience in cost management.
- Experience of leading cost management commissions for large construction projects of high complexity.
- Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as procurement routes, value management and value engineering, and life cycle costing.
- People management experience, particularly in the context of managing a team delivering a project.
- Sound technical experience in all cost management areas; pre-contract, post contract and final account.
- Good understanding of all mechanical, process, electrical, and plumbing systems, as they relate to construction of projects and good understanding of all civils, structural and architectural aspects as they relate to construction of projects.
- Experience in the Swiss construction industry with knowledge of contractual documentation is advantageous.
- English skills are required, fluent German and/or French language skills are preferred.
- Demonstrates excellent presentation, verbal, written, and communication skills.
- Sound organisational skills; ability to multi-task and be a team player.
- Working knowledge of MS Office software and modern cost management digital tools.
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.
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