Cost Manager
Turner & Townsend
Total years of experience :15 years, 4 months
• Managed all aspects of cost management plan from conceptual, schematic, detailed design, tender and contract to handover stages.
• Established a good rapport with clients and members of the cross-functional team.
• Assessed project scope and client requirements, prepared a detailed cost plans and estimates to every pre-bid and pre-construction project schemes.
• Prepared value engineering report that requires adjustment of budget to gain cost savings and attain the project target value.
• Prepared detailed quantity take-off for all trades not limited to architecture, structural and civil works.
• Carry out detailed review of design report, contract specifications and drawings to identify errors, discrepancies and inconsistencies.
• Prepared a benchmark cost analysis from completed projects as a basis for future reference on cost build up breakdown.
• Updated and maintained cost data base on historical costs, current construction market price, and construction cost indices.
• Managed tender and procurement stage of a project, including pre-qualifications, generate tender list, prepared bid tender analysis, preliminaries valuation, carry out tender report and organize completed contractual documents of each project package.
• Managed post-contract cost variances and established effective change control process.
• Reviewed and certify interim payment, liaise with project managers to recommend contractor entitlements, reviewing requests for change orders and prepared recommendations to client, and using dispute prevention/management/resolution procedures to manage payment requisitions, change orders, and contractual disputes.
• Reviewed contractor’s price analysis submissions and negotiations on behalf of the client to persuade a fair contract prices.
• Ensures projects are managed to the correct quality standards and are completed efficiently, on time and to budget.
• Assist in the preparation of monthly post contract cost reports for presentation to the client.
• Responsible the production of cost plan and detailed BOQ from design to tender stage, value engineering, variations and final account to projects across the EMEA regions.
• Prepared a complete set of cost plans and tender BQ’s as per the relevant standard method of measurement to satisfy client’s requirement.
• Responsible for quantity take-off measurement in different trades using CostX software in 3D model and 2D drawings.
• Prepared measurement preambles to a variety of projects as necessary to suit the project requirements.
• Prepared query clarifications to design team verify and clarify discrepancies in drawings, schedules, and specifications.
• Carry out bid tender evaluation reports to various tendered projects.
• Assist in the preparation of cost research to update cost database and monitor the cost market trend throughout EMEA region.
• Responsible for valuation and certification of interim payment, manage variation or change order claim and settlement of contract claim.
• Assist finalization of project final accounts.
• Assist to develop procedures to direct the handover of project.
• Send out for secondment to other regional projects/client to support services for project completion and earn revenue for the team.
• Part of estimating and procurement team I am responsible for the preparation of complete bid document proposals for submission to client.
• Prepared or reviewed and keep up consistencies of BOQ from drawings, the scope of works information and maintain to follow per the standard methods of measurement.
• Verifies and ensures the reliability of each item quantities from client’s tender BOQ and issue relevant report on inconsistencies and missing items.
• Quantity take-off on additional item not included in the tender bill.
• Carry out plan interpretation of tender drawings, specification, and scope of work, structured a complete set of BOQ payable items are comprehensive and accurate ready for unit price derivation.
• Sorted out price valuation submitted by the pre-contract sub-contractor using CCS software, prepare and update the cost database.
• Prepared commercial tender queries on discrepancies between tender specification, drawings, and BOQ to clarify and resolve inconsistencies in tender bid documents.
• Ensures all in-house take -off are properly documented, organized and confidential.
• Ensures tender proposals prepared in timely, appropriate and accurate cost projection.
• Provide support and assistance in planning team in the preparation of cost breakdown structures base in the prepared estimate of each project package. Assist in the preparation of variation claims and final account.