Cost Manager – Data Center Construction

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Turner & Townsend is seeking a Construction Cost Manager to work with our West Coast Data Center team to support a key client’s retrofit/upgrade program. To be successful in this position you must have great communication skills and be comfortable operating in a client-facing role.

Job Objectives:

Pre-Construction Services:

• Provide an end-to-end integrated cost management service through collaboration with
• program-level interfacing teams.
• Facilitate cost management workshops and training sessions with the general contractor
• to ensure all contractual requirements and expectations are established, agreed and
• understood with respect to cost reporting.
• Provide status reports (as needed) from the project intake system to assist with general
• upkeep of all project requests.
• Provide commercial pre-construction support (as necessary) for retrofit/upgrade projects
• within the US West Region.
• Provide conceptual work-in-place forecasts for future projects in support of annual budget
• planning.
• Perform analyses, bid levelling and benchmarking in response to general contractor fee
• and staffing proposals.
• Provide the project management team with recommendations on the commercial
• negotiation strategy to be applied to general contractor bid proposals.

Budget Management and Funding:

• Support client’s project management team (as required) with quarterly funding plans and
• assisting with the determination of Capex/Opex and site/standalone PFRs.
• Analyse and provide cost of work vs overhead cost metrics once per quarter.
• Provide the client’s project management team with variance narratives (as required),
• which explain adjustments made to the initial project budget estimate.
• Allocate approved funding within the client’s cost management system and
• ensure that funding allocation across cost codes and budget categories is aligned with
• the project budget estimate.
• Reallocate budget within the client’s cost management system to enable the
• commitment of approved project funds.
• Provide the project management team with recommendations on the allocation and
• appropriate use of approved project funding.

Contract Negotiation and Change Management:

• Coordinate and support in the review, negotiation and agreement of the contract sum of
• the general contractor, A/E firm and other project vendors as required.
• Develop and implement a project change order log for submitting, tracking, approving
• and rejecting change order submissions.
• Review, validate and negotiate contractor and subcontractor change order requests, in
• respect to cost impacts, and provide the project management team with
• recommendations on approval or rejection.
• Ensure change orders are correctly categorized as owner change order,
• allowance change order or contractor contingency change order.
• Track, monitor and report on allowance and contingency usage.
• Upload change orders into the client’s cost management system as necessary.
• Incorporate approved and pending change orders into the estimated cost at completion.
• Ensure the estimated cost at completion and the project schedule are frequently updated
• to capture the identified risks and opportunities.

Payment Application and Invoice Management:

• Attend monthly site walks (as required) with the project manager and general contractor
• to validate the payment application and ensure progress claimed is accurate.
• Provide the project management team with recommendations (as needed) for approval,
• rejection or adjustment of the general contractor’s monthly payment application.
• Review invoices submitted by owner-furnished equipment vendors and ensure alignment
• with agreed billing milestones contained in the relevant contract.
• Collaborate with commercial operations and accounts payable to ensure invoices are
• correctly allocated to purchase order lines.

Cash Flow and Accruals:

• Review the cost and/or resource loaded schedule and the schedule of values in
• conjunction with general contractor, A/E and other vendors to determine, track and
• forecast earned value on each contract.
• Ensure the client’s cash flow reporting system is updated on a monthly basis
• with the latest work-in-place forecasts for all purchase orders across all projects within the West Region.
• Analyse variances in quarterly financial accruals, providing justification as necessary for
• any under/over accruals.
• Assist with quarterly capitalization as necessary.

Project Closeout:

• Coordinate with general contractors and other project vendors to ensure purchase orders
• are financially closed upon completion of the relevant scope.
• Provide the project management team with recommendations (as needed) relating to
• partial and full retention release in accordance with requirements contained in the client’s
• project manual.
• Prepare and submit the relevant documentation in order to financially close the entire
• project and return any remaining project funds.

• 
  2-5 years’ experience working in a construction cost management role.
• College and/or post-graduate degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction.
• Experience of leading cost management on medium or large sized construction projects of medium to high complexity.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering.
• US experience is strongly desirable.

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