Cost Manager

Turner & Townsend
Edinburgh
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Teamwork","Problem-solving","Stakeholder management","Attention to detail"]

Cost Manager role located in Edinburgh, focusing on administering contracts, cost monitoring, forecasting, and value engineering for infrastructure projects. You’ll collaborate with client and contractor teams, manage contract changes, and drive forecast accuracy within governance. Hybrid UK-based position with potential part-time options, offering opportunity to develop consultancy skills across real estate, infrastructure, and energy projects.

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Turner & Townsend
Turner & Townsend
8 months ago

Cost Manager

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Job Summary

Cost Manager role located in Edinburgh, focusing on administering contracts, cost monitoring, forecasting, and value engineering for infrastructure projects. You’ll collaborate with client and contractor teams, manage contract changes, and drive forecast accuracy within governance. Hybrid UK-based position with potential part-time options, offering opportunity to develop consultancy skills across real estate, infrastructure, and energy projects.
Location: Edinburgh
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Administering a variety of contracts in accordance with project objectives and policies.
  • •Providing accurate project cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting to completion in line with budget.
  • •Pro-actively monitoring and managing cost variance and contract cash flow, and ensuring that applications are made correctly and in a timely manner.
  • •Collaborating with client and contractor teams to manage the delivery of project deliverables, KPIs, and objectives, including programme performance, cost control, and value engineering.
  • •Managing contract change effectively, ensuring that projects remain within governance and adopt best practice

Key Requirements

  • •Ideally degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant subject
  • •Ideally hold or be working towards an appropriate professional body membership or equivalent
  • •Contract Management (NEC3, Option C preferred)
  • •Experience in administering contracts and cost control on infrastructure projects
  • •Ability to monitor cost variance, cash flow and forecast accuracy
Experience:InfrastructureCost managementConstruction
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationTeamworkProblem-solvingStakeholder managementAttention to detail
Certifications:NEC3
Languages:English

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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