Cost Manager / Senior Cost Manager (MEP) - Real Estate

Turner & Townsend
Cambridge
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Real Estate & Property ManagementSkills: ["Negotiation","Change management","Process-driven work","Client engagement","Mentoring"]

Lead and manage MEP cost management deliverables across real estate projects, including early budgeting, estimating, and cost plan development. Oversee tendering and procurement, support post-contract reporting, and run change control with cost negotiations. Review payment applications, validate cost build-ups and rate analysis, and manage final account reconciliations. Mentor cost managers within the MEP team and contribute to digital tools and best practices.

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Cost Manager / Senior Cost Manager (MEP) - Real Estate

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Job Summary

Lead and manage MEP cost management deliverables across real estate projects, including early budgeting, estimating, and cost plan development. Oversee tendering and procurement, support post-contract reporting, and run change control with cost negotiations. Review payment applications, validate cost build-ups and rate analysis, and manage final account reconciliations. Mentor cost managers within the MEP team and contribute to digital tools and best practices.
Location: Cambridge
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Real Estate & Property Management
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) deliverables within larger projects or manage direct MEP commissions such as asset upgrade works.
  • •Establish early budgets, provide early estimating, and develop cost plans.
  • •Manage design teams to budget, oversee tendering and procurement (single and two-stage), and deliver post-contract reporting.
  • •Mentor Assistant Cost Managers and Cost Managers within the MEP team.
  • •Collaborate with contractors and MEP supply chains and support development of MEP digital systems and tools.

Key Requirements

  • •A proven track record delivering high-quality cost management/quantity surveying services across the full project lifecycle.
  • •Professionally qualified (RICS or similar) or working towards it.
  • •Degree or HNC level qualification.
  • •Ability to level and negotiate initial tender returns and issue recommendations.
  • •Experience running change control processes, including cost negotiations, and reviewing payment applications.
Skills:NegotiationChange managementProcess-driven workClient engagementMentoring
Certifications:RICS
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Cost XMEP digital systemsSingle-stage tenderingTwo-stage tendering

Company Brief

Turner & Townsend
Global professional services firm providing program, project and cost management, advisory and consulting services across property, infrastructure and natural resources sectors to public and private clients worldwide.
Industry: Consulting
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Leeds, United Kingdom
Founded: 1946
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