Senior Cost Manager - Real Estate Construction, São Paulo

• Full-time

Company Description

Do you want to be part of our successfulCost Managementteam working withTurner & Townsendin São Paulo/SP basis, with visits and face-to-face meetings in Jundiaí/SP and Paulínea/SP. We are hiring an ambitious and forward-thinking Senior Cost Managerto work in our growing team.

Turner & Townsend is a global consultancy applying technical excellence across the real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors.

We have grown to become a world-leading professional services company with 125 offices in 50 countries. We draw on extensive global and industry experience to manage risk while maximizing value and performance during the construction and operation of our clients’ assets.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client focused – Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity, and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to work with some of the most exciting projects in the world while having all the support and investment on their careers.

Why it is great to work for Turner & Townsend

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

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects in over 125 offices in 50 countries worldwide. In Brazil we currently have 3 offices located in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro e Belo Horizonte.

Turner & Townsend recognizes the fact that our employees are the key to our future growth. We have created a stimulating and exciting working environment by investing heavily on professional training, development, and regular appraisal of our people.

Who are you?

You are an experienced Senior Cost Manager with very senior experience looking for the next step or are currently undertaking a similar role in a similar environment/industry.

Job Description

The Senior Cost Manager will take responsibility for effectively delivering a range of tasks to high quality standard and aid on a wide range of projects of all sizes and dimensions.

The professional will report to a Cost Management Associate Director and will be responsible for commercial aspects of projects in several sectors, supporting with budget management, project cost control, estimation, procurement, and change control during execution.

Candidates should preferably have experience in the Data Center and Real Estate sector.

Responsibilities

Included but not limited to:

• Support estimations according to all design phases.
• Monitor and control Valuations.
• Participate on value engineering sessions.
• Prepare and analyze change orders.
• Develop progress measurement criteria with vendors.
• Support quotation process responding to the questions of services/materials proponents.
• Produce cash flow forecasts for internal and client purposes.
• Quantify materials and labor for all phases of a project.
• Support on reviewing 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.
• Support on stakeholder management.

Qualifications

• Degree-qualified or equivalent in Quantity Surveyor, Engineering, Architecture.
• Several years’ experienceworking in similar roles, mainly during construction phase.
• Complete project ownership.
• Knowledge in Cost Control, Cost Estimate, Change Orders and Cost Management aredesirable.
• Knowledge and understanding of the component parts of a project and overall construction costs.
• Ability to analyze and interpret commercial and technical project documentation.
• Commercial awareness and understanding of the Construction process.
• Negotiation skills and ability to apply those skills internally, externally & with our supply chain.
• Positive attitude always and the ability to integrate and play an active part in the Construction Team
• Good organizational skills and the ability to priorities to meet deadlines.
• Keen to pursue personal development needs and keep up to date knowledge.
• Advanced experience with the MS Office Package (Project, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) andMsProject.
• Knowledge and skills with PowerBI are a plus.
• Spanish is a plus.

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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