Senior MEP Cost Manager

Senior MEP Cost Manager - Data Centre
Frankfurt - EU passport holder
€90k-110k DOE

Kenton Black International is excited to be supporting one of the world's leading consultancies in the expansion of their European Data Centre team. There currently exists a number of opportunities for degree qualified Cost Managers at a variety of levels in their Germany team.

We're keen to hear from people with a proven track record of delivering high quality MEP or CSA Cost Management/Quantity Surveying duties across the full lifecycle of schemes. Data Centre experience is a must for consideration.

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)
• Have experience as a Cost Manager on at least one Data Centre construction project (essential)
• Ideally have some MEP experience (preferable)
• Have client facing/stakeholder management experience (preferable)
• Have right to live and work in Germany (essential)

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