Total 10 job vacancies by Turner & Townsend

We are looking for a Senior Cost Manager to join the Perth team to deliver cost management services to key client National Account, primarily dealing with the Retail team.  

• Pre contract cost planning services during design stages of projects
• Post contract progress claim and variation assessments
• Engage with the local property market to gain market knowledge for use in the delivery of our services
• Assist with the commission management of our commissions to assist in the successful delivery of our services
• Integrate with full cost management and project management teams in WA and support when required
• Work independently and take responsibility for deliverables
• Line management and mentorship

Turner & Townsend will give you the opportunity to work with world class clients on cutting edge projects and to build a successful career with a company that will offer the highest levels of support at every stage.

Some of the key specifications in our Project Management team include:

• Effectively and efficiently leading capital projects.
• Employing proven project management skills to plan, monitor and document tasks throughout a project.
• Able to take responsibility for key functional aspects within the project, including: scope, risk, cost, schedule and quality.
• Putting safety at the heart of project delivery. Safety in comes first, always. 
• Day-to-day management of projects through the complete life cycle, including successfully implementing from initiation through deployment and handover into operations.
• Working within multi-disciplinary teams of professionals to deliver targeted project outcomes, while fostering a collaborative and communicative project culture.
• Managing different forms of contract, ensuring compliance with contract terms, processing of payments and managing change.  
• Employ a sound understanding of procurement in projects, tendering preparation and management, bid assessment and contract award for contractors and/or professional services.
• Preparing reports and communicating of project progress to a range of stakeholders, including schedule/milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks and issues, and promoting appropriate actions to improve project outcomes.

The Risk Managers primary focus is on the management and coordination of the risk management function, ensuring that all elements of risk to the project are identified, analysed, reported and solutions/mitigations developed and implemented.

The main duties of a Senior Risk Manager is:

• Management and coordination of risk management to ensure effective project delivery to and to the highest industry standards, on time and within allocated budgets.
• Undertaking both qualitative and quantitative risk assessment to support informed and evidence based decision-making within the project.
• Perform QRA for cost and prolongation risk related to time activities.
• Building and promoting a risk-aware culture across the project which includes increase levels of awareness, understanding and commitment to risk management issues, facilitating risk workshops as required.
• Ensuring a program of individual and small group risk reviews and reports are completed to facilitate an accurate understanding of actual and potential risk exposures across the project and assisting in providing solutions and mitigations, including any required controls and actions.
• Completing risk reporting associated with monitoring project contingency and potential scope modifications made during the project.
• Updating the risk register to facilitate the management of the project risk profile.
• Providing subject matter expert advice to the project management team in relation to risk management.
• Coordinating and reviewing project status reporting and assisting with arrangements for key governance meetings.
• Supporting the project controls and contract management functions as required.

• Full cost management service pre to post contract
• Estimating across sectors noted above
• Report preparation
• Meeting management
• Client facing
• Commission management
• Line management and mentorship

We are expanding our Cost Management capabilities within the retail team to help deliver our vision for our clients within WA.

• Full cost management service pre to post contract
• Estimating across sectors noted above, focus on retail.
• Report preparation
• Meeting management
• Client facing
• Commission management
• Line management and mentorship

Turner & Townsend will give you the opportunity to work with world class clients on cutting edge projects and to build a successful career with a company that will offer the highest levels of support at every stage.

We work on projects of all sizes from one-off developments to mega-programmes, from planning the future development of international airports to site based construction of individual buildings, or the largest rail infrastructure projects in the country. We cover everything from leading teams, planning works, tracking progress and business case delivery to bringing assets into use. 

The main purpose of the Assistant Project Manager is to optimise project success by delivering against agreed project objectives. Our project managers see the value in agreeing from the outset ‘what good looks like’ and take pride in ensuring alignment to this as the project progresses. Some of the key specifications we attribute to the purpose include:

• Project reporting – Forward planning for the project governance reporting cycle, interface management with client’s project leads, collation of information, presentation in report format, seek approval.
• Progress meetings – Arrange, attend, chair in some case, and minute meetings with client’s project leads and support team to assist progression of the project scope of works.
• Stakeholder coordination – Identification of stakeholders, liaison with all parties to capture all relevant issues, inputs and restrictions that may affect project outcomes.   
• Procurement Coordination - Including contract drafting, tender preparations and management, bid analysis and contract awards for consultants and contractors
• Approvals & Planning – Working with the wider project team to obtain the necessary building approvals
• Contract Management - Ensuring compliance with contract terms in delivery of the works for consultants and contractors, processing of payments, managing change.  
• Risk and issues management – Ensuring early identification of project risks and applying carefully considered mitigations to minimise occurrence of issues
• Quality management – Through coordination of all parties to ensure adherence to expected quality for both the design and construction of the project
• Capital forecasting – Planning & forecasting project spending

Senior Cost Manager undertaking pre and post contract client facing duties for our RE and infrastructure projects typically both in T&T office and in a client offices. Experience with cost planning, cost reporting, procurement, contract and commercial management.

• Commission management experience
• Pre-contract cost management experience
• Post-contract cost management experience
• Tender analysis experience
• Procurement and contract advisory experience
• Commercial reporting experience
• Variation assessment experience
• Team training and best practice

• Deliver business value through the development of safety, scope, cost, schedule, and quality outcomes in accordance with client capital management frameworks
• Formulate effective business cases through bringing together technical knowledge and commercial concepts
• Ability to work effectively in a matrix structure, liaising with and securing resources from functional heads and working groups
• Liaise with and coordinate contributions from multiple parties, maintaining a high level of stakeholder engagement and guiding overall study direction
• Monitor, manage and report relevant study performance indicators to meet business requirements
• Identify and resolve study delivery performance issues in a timely manner
• Identify and implement improvements to study delivery methods
• Develop and manage budgets and schedules for various work programmes
• Ensure project risks are identified and actively managed

Due to significant growth and ongoing delivery success with our clients in our Real Estate sector we are currently recruiting a MEP Senior Cost Manager  with proven local delivery experience to join our Perth based team.

The ideal applicant with have a strong background in Quantity Surveying, ideally gained through the delivery of complex projects. Preferably you will have worked within a professional consultancy before, but those with a background in other areas, such as experience working for main contractors are encouraged to apply.

As a MEP Senior Cost Manager you will be able to work independently managing your own deliverables, but also work well as part of a team. You will strive to promote and maintain the highest of professional standards, while supporting junior staff to grow and learn through your knowledge and experience. We are looking for someone who could oversee more junior staff, though you will be supported by our senior management team and Commercial Sector lead who you will be working closely with.

• Leading the team to delivery MEP services for the life of the project from feasibility cost planning to agreement of final account
• Manage and develop our team to deliver our MEP services
• Lead MEP bid opportunities
• Working with the Queensland Director to continue to grow our MEP cost management opportunities
• Assisting on feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
• Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan to internal & external clients
• Dealing effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes

Due to significant growth and ongoing delivery success with our clients in our Real Estate sector we are currently recruiting a Senior Cost Manager with proven local delivery experience to join our Perth based team.

The ideal applicant with have a strong background in Quantity Surveying, ideally gained through the delivery of complex projects. Preferably you will have worked within a professional consultancy before, but those with a background in other areas, such as experience working for main contractors are encouraged to apply.

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor/Senior Cost Manager you will be able to work independently managing your own deliverables, but also work well as part of a team. You will strive to promote and maintain the highest of professional standards, while supporting junior staff to grow and learn through your knowledge and experience. We are looking for someone who could oversee more junior staff, though you will be supported by our senior management team and Commercial Sector lead who you will be working closely with.

• Leading our existing key client relationships.
• Creating new client and consultant relationships and opportunities in the market place.
• Growing and developing exceptional people for your team.
• Displaying excellence in service delivery leadership.
• Take responsibility for your own deliverables and ensure all commitments are completed.
• Estimating and cost planning including presenting the final cost plan.