Senior Cost Manager – Data Center Construction (Anticipated Opening)

Job Description
Turner &
Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Cost Manager to join our team. The Senior Cost Manager will be responsible for providing cost management services for one of our data center clients.
Core Responsibilities:
Desk review of monthly application for payment on an actual cost-plus basis. Verify all costs applied for are allowable per contract and supported by adequate substantiation / back-up prior to submission into client payment systems for pre-approval.
Utilize client payment systems to review and approve selected contractor invoices.
Provide monthly update to the portfolio dashboard on project data.
Carry out change management support by evaluating and recommend approval, and/or rejection of cost of proposed change and tracking of change orders.
Support the evaluation of contractor claims and provide recommendation to Senior Cost manager.
Verify all project closeout documentation required, per contract, has been received and is acceptable for the client.
Provide commercial recommendations relating to partial and full retention release, in accordance with contract requirements.
Manage and maintain project dashboards using Power BI, and feed data into portfolio level dashboards.
Lead project kick-off meetings with Contractors &
other client vendors, walking them through process playbooks and setting expectations for all cost management processes at the outset.
Be the main point of contact at project &
campus level for both the Client &
Contractors.
Manage the workload to the wider project team &
ensuring timely delivery.
Provide QA on team members work, ensuring consistent, high standard of delivery across the project team.