Associate Cost Manager – Data Centre

Associate Cost Manager
Newport – ON SITE 5 DAYS A WEEK
£90-115k

Kenton Black International is excited to be supporting one of the world's leading consultancies in the expansion of their UK Cost Management team. There currently exists an opportunity for a degree qualified Associate Cost Manager to work on a major new Data Centre construction project in South Wales.

We're keen to hear from people with a strong consultancy background and with a proven track record of of delivering complex Data Centre projects. Candidates should have strong client facing skills, ideally some MEP experience, and experience of projects such as hi-tech manufacturing, BESS, and pharma will also be of interest.

Responsibilities will include –

• Pre- and post-contract duties, including preparation of cost estimates, RFPs, procurement and tendering, contract administration, variation, final account, etc.
• Completing feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
• Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan
• Tendering and procurement activity, including managing the pre-qualification stage, producing the tender list, preliminaries, tender analysis, tender report and compiling the contractual documents
• Taking responsibility for timely and accurate cost checks and valuations
• Producing monthly post contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
• Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages
• Participate effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes
• Perform cost risk analysis and provide input into value engineering; negotiate and approve final accounts
• Maintain central feedback and learning on cost estimating from prospects and projects and contribute to updating of best practices in estimating

The ideal candidate will –

• Be educated to degree level, ideally in Quantity Surveying (essential)
• Be from a consultancy background (essential)
• Be MRICS (preferable)
• Have strong MEP experience (essential)
• Have client facing/stakeholder management experience (essential)

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