Senior Cost Manager, Mining

**Company Description**

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives.

Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

• Activities might change accordingly.
• Conducting feasibility studies and writing procurement reports;
• Review construction plans and preparing quantity take-offs, along with Contract Preparation and Management
• Prepare and review detailed estimates and cost plans
• Managing estimating and cost planning activities to include taking ownership of and presenting the final cost plan;
• Managing the procurement process, implementing procurement, and contracting strategies and participate in negotiations ensuring that all stages including pre-qualification, enquiry, analysis, perform bid evaluations and cost negotiations selection and contract preparation are performed effectively and RFPs revisions and evaluation;
• Ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively, documenting any changes in design, and updating budgets;
• Ensuring that cost checking and valuation work is managed effectively;
• Preparing and issuing monthly post-contract cost reports and presenting them to the client;
• Value engineering and life cycle costing, drive value engineering and offer cost insights to support business decisions;
• Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed;
• Establish and maintain professional relationships with external and internal stakeholders, taking a lead role in interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages, and report to senior leadership on current estimated cost vs. budget, and advise managers and clients on improvements and new strategies;
• Where appropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all their assigned tasks and accountabilities;
• Staff management (where appropriate) -Inputting into the formal management of a Cost Manager or small cost management team, to include 1st round recruitment interviews, input into resource management and attendance at junior staff appraisals;
• Knowledge management - Ensuring that key information and lessons learnt are generated from each commission and are included within Turner & Townsend internal database;
• Financial management - Utilizing Financial Management Systems to keep track of the ongoing margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts for each commission;
• Process improvement - Identifying and acting upon ways to improve internal systems and processes;
• Liaise with site managers, clients, contractors, and subcontractors;
• Prepare reports, analyses, contracts, budgets, risk assessment, and other documents;
• Review and approve subcontractor proposals, manage contracts, and change request;
• Advise the Project Manager / Client of any forecasted unforeseen cost or over expenditure and proposes corrective actions;
• Travel from the office to various site locations when or if required or be willing to be based on site;

**Qualifications**

• **8-12 years of professional experience in Cost Management within mining projects**;
• **Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering, or a related field**;
• **RICS, AACE certifications/memberships** (highly desirable);
• **Fluent in English and Spanish**;
• Proven ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines in complex mining environments;
• Excellent communication skills, with experience presenting methodologies, cost strategies, and deliverables to clients in the mining sector;
• Strong skills in **client management, change management, and leadership of multidisciplinary teams**;
• Advanced proficiency in **Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint**, experience with **CostX**, and working knowledge of **AutoCAD**; familiarity with mining-specific software 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._
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