Total 7 hr associate job vacancies in NSW - Sydney - City & Inner West

• Provide confident leadership and play an instrumental role in the growth of the NSW business unit in line with the business vision.
• Lead the delivery of a bundle of projects.
• Lead the delivery on other projects within the Government Super Sector as required. Previous experience working on construction projects for Government agencies such as Dept of Education and Health will be highly desirable
• Ensure all deliverables are peer reviewed and produced in a timely manner.
• Manage Client expectations through excellent communication.
• Always maintain the highest standards of Governance and Quality Assurance.
• Contribute to the overall improvement of service offering for the Government Super Sector within the Sydney Cost Management Team.
• Apply commercial acumen to projects and support the client through the decision-making process to deliver a project that not only provides value for money but also delivers a sound commercial outcome.
• Play an instrumental role in developing winning bids, networking, expanding brand awareness, and generating new opportunities for the business unit
• Manage a team of 5 (Senior Cost Managers and Cost managers)
• Manage projects profitability, invoicing, and commercial performance fee variations
• Externalise within the local property market to raise company profile and secure new opportunities to meet the target budget.
• Play an active role in bid writing
• Play an active role in all activities related to business administration, both internally and externally
• Take ownership of workload and utilisation planning
• Attract local talent and grow the local team.
• Integrate with leadership and delivery team in NSW and the Cost Management Business

The role is an Associate / Senior Cost Manager to support Data centre projects in Sydney, mainly to support post contract activities.

• Senior cost manager providing support to the team across all aspects of projects including cost estimates, quantity take-off, value engineering, tendering and evaluation, progress claim and variation assessment, final account close-out.
• Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan report.
• Measurement of all building elements for cost plan.
• Engage with market to obtain quotations / pricing to support cost estimate.
• Progress claim and variation assessments and valuations.

Senior Cost Manager/ Associate to support Data Center, defense projects in Sydney and support wider Sydney Cost Management team. While the candidate will be placed within the MEP team.

• Senior cost manager providing support to the team across all aspects of projects including cost estimates, quantity take-off, value engineering, tendering and evaluation, progress claim and variation assessment, final account close-out.
• Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan report.
• Measurement of all building elements for cost plan.
• Engage with market to obtain quotations / pricing to support cost estimate.
• Progress claim and variation assessments and valuations.

• Lead cost manager on number of projects responsible for all deliverables and successful project outcome.  Responsibilities across preconstruction, procurement, and post contract activities.
• Client relationship development
• Team management
• Leading delivery of number of projects, lead point of contact for project stakeholders and client.
• Mentoring and guiding more junior staff members  
• Lead cost manager on projects.
• Leading fee proposals.
• Involvement in business generation sessions, securing new opportunities.
• Management of T&T financials on project and commission management.
• Assisting, eventually leading, carbon calculation services.

• An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Cost Manager / Associate Director - Mechanical & Electrical, to join our team in our Caberra office. Supporting our clients to deliver projects and programs for Defence projects.
• The position will be to lead on the Mechanical & Electrical (M&E) specific deliverables within a larger project or leading direct M&E commissions, such as asset upgrade works.
• The individual must be self-motivated and Client facing (both internal & external) with the ability to manage multiple projects and clients. This will involve establishing early budgets, early estimating, and cost planning, tendering and procurement and post contract duties.
• The role will also include management of other Assistant Cost Managers and Cost Managers within the M&E.
• A good knowledge of M&E systems and supply chain is fundamental with the ability to work collaboratively.

As an Associate Director in our Procurement Advisory team, you will be client-facing to build and maintain high-quality relationships with key clients in our target markets. You will play a key role in building our team’s capability and culture. A significant amount of your time will be spent leading consulting/advisory assignments for clients. You will excel in your role as a key contributor and leader in multi-disciplinary advisory teams. Your deep knowledge and experience in procurement, transaction management and contract management will be critical to the success of our work for clients.  

The primary responsibilities of the role are as follows: 

• Developing robust contemporary procurement strategies for our clients’ major projects and programs, helping to assure successful project outcomes and reduce delivery risks.

• Transaction management on major ($300m+) capital projects, setting up projects and programs for success by leading the procurement process.   

• Providing clients with expert contract management skills to support their projects, from initial contract set up through to managing variations and claims. 

• Proactively building networks with other members of the Turner & Townsend team, and with our key clients in the region, becoming a trusted advisor on matters relating to procurement and contract management for capital projects. 

• Contributing to Turner & Townsend’s vision and mission by developing proposals to address client challenges, creating innovative new service offerings, and prudent management of financial performance within your area of the business.   

• Being an active and empathetic leader of integrated advisory teams, taking ownership of commissions from start to finish, and directing and coaching our consulting staff. 

• Making a material contribution to business development and practice development. 

• Creating a collaborative and supportive team environment. 

• To perform the role of the Senior Cost Manager or Associate Director, taking responsibility for end-to-end service delivery in the healthcare sector (public and private).
• To ensure that client objectives are met through the delivery of an effective cost management service from pre-contract to handover.
• Take responsibility for end-to-end service delivery on new and exciting, major healthcare projects and state significant programmes.
• Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting cost plans.
• Using our bespoke tools and apps, powered by The Hive, you will optimise cost performance at every stage of projects.
• Work collaboratively with leading design teams, sector specialists and tier one main contractors to manage the design to budget.
• Use our Benchmarking app to analyse and test budgets using a reliable pool of national data.
• Use CostX and our cost planning app to improve collaboration with designers and highlight changes between design stages.
• Inform our clients of future cost trends by harnessing the analytical capabilities of our Market Rates App which captures, analyses and stores live national data at a component level.
• Advise clients on procurement and contract strategies.
• Deliver the procurement strategy producing a tender analysis and prepare a final tender recommendation report.
• Experience of taking an effective lead on Two-Stage Tender agreements with strong negotiation and organisational skills
• Deal effectively with post contract cost variances, the change control process and valuations utilising our Cost Control App.
• Present monthly post contract cost control reports to the client.
• Inputting into value engineering.
• Negotiation and agreeing final accounts.
• Where appropriate, leading junior members of the cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on their project accountabilities.