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Cost Manager - Data Centre/Defence/Education

Sydney, Australia & New Zealand, au💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-06 → 2026-09-25

Core

Prepare cost plans, price items from first principles, assess tender returns and contractor variations, and manage payment claims for construction projects.

Role type

Cost Manager

Builds

Cost plans, tender recommendations, payment recommendations, and market intelligence reports

Domain

Construction / Infrastructure / Defence / Education

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Cost planning, pricing from first principles, tender assessment, variation assessment, payment claim assessment, benchmarking, market intelligence, CostX, AIQS (RICS)

Preferred skills

Experience across project life cycle (pre-contract, procurement, post-contract), digital tool implementation

Technologies

CostX, Hive

Responsibilities

Measurement of all elements for preparation of cost plan, Pricing of individual items within a cost plan from first principals, Preparation of cost reports, Assessment of tender returns and preparation of tender recommendation report, Assessment of contractor variations, Assessment of contractor payment claims and preparation of a payment recommendation to the Superintendent, Compilation of benchmarking and market intelligence data

Seniority

Mid-level, hands-on IC

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