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Cost Manager / Senior Cost Manager (MEP) - Real Estate

Cambridge, United Kingdom, gb💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-10 → 2026-09-27

Core

Lead MEP cost management, budgeting, tendering, and procurement for real estate asset upgrades and larger projects.

Role type

Senior IC MEP Cost Manager

Builds

Cost plans, tender returns, final accounts, and change control processes for MEP deliverables

Domain

Real Estate / MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing)

Required skills

Cost management, quantity surveying, budgeting, tendering, procurement, change control, cost negotiations, payment application review, final account reconciliation, rate analysis, benchmarking, Cost X software

Preferred skills

Mentorship, digital systems development, stakeholder engagement

Technologies

Cost X

Responsibilities

Establish early budgets and cost plans, manage design teams to budget, oversee tendering and procurement, mentor junior cost managers, review payment applications and prepare recommendations, manage final account reconciliations, update client workbooks for change orders

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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