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Senior Cost Manager

Frederick, MDHybridFull TimeManager / Head$108,000–$145,000 /yrPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • Senior Cost Manager
  • tender/bid process
  • change management
  • final accounts
  • cost plans
  • valuations
  • cost reports
  • construction disputes
  • loss and expense claims
  • project management

Nice to have

  • consultancy background
  • pre-contract cost management
  • alternative construction materials
  • chartered
  • degree
  • construction discipline

Role summary

Linesight is seeking a Senior Cost Manager to join their team. This role involves actively participating in the tender/bid process, managing change orders, analyzing bids for client value, preparing final accounts, creating cost plans and estimates, overseeing project spend through valuations and cost reports, and supporting dispute settlements. The position requires strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills, with a preference for candidates with a consultancy background, pre-contract cost management experience, and chartered status. This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days per week on client sites in Frederick or Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Overview

 As a Senior Cost Manager at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. You will be mentored and supported by industry leaders and given the tools to grow. You will also be involved in and contribute to our business strategy as we continue to evolve. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

The Opportunity

In this role you will: 

  • Actively participate in the tender/bid process--from initial tender/bid documentation through analysis and reporting
  • Manage the change management process - identifying, analyzing, approving, and implementing changes that affect the project cost
  • Analyse tenders/bids to ensure client value for money
  • Assist in the preparation and agreement of final accounts, including the handling of any claims to ensure the client gets best value from works undertaken
  • Create estimates and cost plans for key client developments
  • Oversee project spend by creating valuations and cost reports, and clearly communicate variations to your team
  • Support nimble project management and clear decisions through excellent cost documentation and timely communication
  • Support the settlement of construction disputes/loss and expense claims with transparency
  • Foster top performance and growth for your employees via excellent mentorship and leadership 

We would love to hear from you if you: 

  • Have experience as a Senior Cost Manager, ideally from a consultancy background
  • Have experience in pre-contract cost management while being experienced in budget control, cost planning, preparing and initiating change forms for discussion with other project stakeholders while being knowledgeable on alternative construction materials
  • Are chartered or are on the path to complete it. We can help
  • Have a degree or comparable experience in a project management or construction discipline
  • Are an excellent communicator verbally and in writing
  • Love a dynamic environment with the opportunity to manage your own priorities and deadlines
  • Thrive on building strong relationships with your team and clients through a shared purpose and sense of openness and fun 

Please note this is a hybrid role with 3 days per week required on the client site in Frederick, Maryland or Gaithersburg, Maryland. 

The Salary Range for this role is $108,000.00-$145,000.00+ USD but actual salary offered is dependent upon experience, education and skillset.

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.

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About us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you! 

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