Vacancy Location London
This is a Permanent , Full Time vacancy.
THE VACANCY
Title: Senior Cost Manager / Associate (Data Centres)
Division: Cost Management
Location: London (with Hybrid Working)
Reporting to: Partner
Department Overview:
We are a sector focused construction consultancy actively operating and investing in Data Centre, Infrastructure, Commercial, Residential, Education, Sports, Nuclear and Retail clients and projects, among others. Our consultants work in close contact with the client, advising them on financial and legal matters that arise during the project.
Our Cost Management Team at RLB proactively manage the cost of a building project, from the initial design stages through to the building's completion and sometimes even the costs incurred through maintenance and operation once the building is up and running. We pride ourselves on the quality of our service to our clients and enjoy long term relationships with a large majority.
Overview of Role:
This role presents an excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior Cost Manager or Associate with Data Centre experience to take responsibility for a variety of projects, acting as main client contact, while providing support to the existing team.
This is an excellent opportunity to join RLB's established Cost Management offering as we continue our growth within the Data Centre sector, across EMEA.
The role will suit someone who has previously worked on Hyperscale Data Centres and offers an excellent platform to progress, with a very supportive and robust career development structure.
Key Responsibilities:
- The individual will be an integral part of a team that is accountable for the commercial and contractual performance of a project.
- To support business objectives of delivering value for money in all circumstances
- To carry out assigned duties efficiently and in accordance with processes and procedures
- Comply with established commercial/procurement/ contractual strategies
- Take personal responsibility for complying with Environmental, Health, Safety, Security and Quality Standards
- Individually or as part of a team operate processes for the selection, appointment and management of construction and engineering contractors
- Cost Planning including:
- Preparation of indicative cost budgets and appraisals
- Preparation of elemental cost plans
- Provide advice and opinion in respect of our client development plans and expectations
- Value engineering studies
- Procurement including:
- Providing advice on procurement strategy
- Assembling and seeking agreement to long and short tender lists
- Preparing and issuing tender documents.
- Running a competitive tender process including managing queries from tendering contractors
- Managing and contributing to structured and documented tender evaluations
- Preparation of Contract Recommendation Reports
- Preparation of contract documents
- Post Contract Quantity Surveying including:
- Scrutinising and verifying applications for interim payments
- Preparing certificates
- Managing change control in accordance with contracts
- Producing cost reports and cost forecasting
- Assisting Project Managers in preparing Early Warnings, Instructions and Compensation Events
- Attending progress meetings
- Promote commercial awareness throughout project
- Support formal dispute resolution process and contract close out strategy as required
- Advising and liaising with internal project and cost control team
- Developing Commercial Strategies
- Developing Acquisition Strategies
Person Specification:
The ideal candidate will demonstrate a positive proactive approach to the role, and will be committed to delivering customer service excellence, with good commercial results.
- Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying or similar technical discipline.
- Strong technical delivery experience
- Experience in Data Centres
- MRICS or membership of other relevant professional body
- Ability to successfully manage complex projects in a proactive and diligent manner
- Strong Feasibility and cost planning experience
- Experience of providing procurement advice, tender documentation and post contract services
- Client facing, ensuring a high standard of technical delivery
- Able to build long-term relationships
- Previously employed by a consultancy or end user client
- Stakeholder management with a clear focus on developing client accounts
- A track record of working with teams and managing projects by prioritising workloads and delivering deadlines
- A team player, outgoing, flexible, enthusiastic and ambitious
Company Overview:
With over 1200 UK & EU staff and 4,500 worldwide Rider Levett Bucknall has a truly global reach, and with such scope can offer a local presence to its clients almost without exception. We are committed to our core services and pride ourselves on our dedication to customer care and leading-edge service provision. The UK business is 100% employee owned, an award winning leading independent firm providing our clients with some of the most comprehensive and forward-thinking advice available.
We offer a range of complementary project management, quantity surveying, building surveying and advisory services from conception, through design and construction and operational performance of facilities to their eventual disposal or reuse. Our clients have rapid access to the latest industry intelligence and innovations, which serve to enhance value and mitigate risk. We provide expert management of the relationship between value, time, and cost from inception to completion. We do this through our global and local team of experts, who possess a passion for both core services and innovation. We are committed to developing new services and techniques aimed at enhancing our clients' businesses in the long term.
What Can We Offer?
RLB will provide you with a flexible, friendly, and creative environment enabling you to develop and progress professionally. We will support you to innovate, collaborate and build a meaningful career. Our strong network of people and knowledge will help expand your horizons and give you access to a variety of interesting projects and opportunities.
Our employees are rewarded with competitive salaries, opportunities to invest and many other benefits including: 28 days holiday + bank holidays (option to purchase up to 5 extra days per year), Company pension scheme, Life Assurance, Bicycle Purchase Scheme, Health Screening, Employee Assistance Programme, Dental Cover, Professional Memberships and more.
At RLB, our aim is to create and enhance an inclusive workplace culture where diversity is not only accepted but valued and built into our company culture, creating opportunity for all. In order to support this, we recognise the importance of flexible and agile working and are open to having conversations on how this could work for you and our business from day one.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during any stage of the application or interview process, please contact our recruitment team at:
ABOUT US
Confidence today inspires tomorrow
With a network that covers the globe and a heritage spanning over two centuries, Rider Levett Bucknall is a leading independent organisation in cost management and quantity surveying, project management and advisory services.
Our achievements are renowned: from the early days of pioneering quantity surveying, to landmark projects such as the Sydney Opera House, HSBC Headquarters Building in Hong Kong, the 2012 London Olympic Games and CityCenter in Las Vegas.
We continue this successful legacy with our dedication to the value, quality and sustainability of the built environment. Our innovative thinking, global reach, and flawless execution push the boundaries. Taking ambitious projects from an idea to reality.
RLB has released the 2022 edition of Perspective , a compilation of insights from members of the RLB team around the world.
OUR VALUES
At Rider Levett Bucknall doing the right thing matters and we believe we all have a responsibility to support the communities in which we live and work. Our global values are based on the following insights:
People
Promote fairness, equality of opportunity and well-being, invest in our people and value everyone's contribution.
Industry
Lead by example and shape the future of our industry in everything we do.
Community
Support the communities in which we live and work and deliver sustainable social outcomes.
Customers
Challenge the norm, give fresh perspectives and deliver flawlessly.
Environment
Reduce our environmental footprint and collaborate to reduce the environmental impact of our industry.
Workplace
Provide an inclusive, safe working environment.
Business
Act with integrity, honesty and fairness in all our relationships.
Shareholders
Be a self-owned organisation, be financially robust, and deliver agreed financial plans.