Senior Cost Manager – Data Center Construction

🔥 20 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $145k - $165k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Turner & Townsend

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10,000+ employees

🏗️ Construction

💼 Consulting

🏠 Real Estate

Construction • Consulting • Real Estate

Turner & Townsend is a global consultancy business that serves clients in the real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors. With a commitment to building trust between clients, suppliers, governments, and society, they focus on delivering better outcomes that positively impact the world. Their specialities include programme strategy and setup, programme management, cost and commercial management, project management, procurement, safety, health and quality, controls and performance, technology and data, and advisory services. With 75 years of experience, Turner & Townsend aims to transform performance for a greener, more inclusive, and productive world.

📋 Description

• Support successful delivery of large-scale data center construction projects • Serve as a key day-to-day client interface across the full project lifecycle • Estimate and negotiate change orders throughout construction • Provide cost estimates, cost planning, and final cost plans • Review design-team and general-contractor cost estimates • Reconcile changes and validate contractor data • Gather project status information and prepare cost estimate updates • Prepare written comments and executive summaries for contractor submissions • Coordinate cost information from NPA, subcontractors, suppliers, and A/Es • Drive engineering priorities based on cost impact • Manage cost checks and valuations on larger projects • Manage post-contract cost variances, change control, contingency, and commitment tracking • Prepare funding-data presentations and coordinate value-engineering sessions • Develop and update cost plans and estimates through design milestones • Provide commercial input to design optioneering and value engineering • Review contractor and subcontractor pricing and lead client-side negotiations • Perform quantity surveying, cost controls, and change management • Manage cost auditing, valuation, and cost-validation processes • Produce monthly cost reports for client presentation • Negotiate and agree final accounts • Compile built-cost estimate records for benchmarking • Coach and mentor talent • Lead service delivery in line with appointment conditions • Track commission margins, fee/resource forecasts, and financial reports using internal software • Implement internal business-management systems, methodologies, and delivery tools • Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities • Promote a one-business culture balancing people, clients, stakeholders, and society

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a construction-related field • Minimum 5–7 years of relevant experience in a construction-industry cost management role • RICS accredited or working towards it preferred • Experience leading cost management on medium or large-sized, medium- to high-complexity construction projects • Construction consultancy experience strongly preferred • Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, including procurement routes, value management, and value engineering • Excellent communication skills • Ability to travel to Texas approximately twice per month • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and collaborate effectively with project teams • Client-facing stakeholder management experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonuses may be available in addition to base salary • Comprehensive benefits package • Healthy, productive, and flexible working environment • Work-life balance support • Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace • Confidential handling of applicant information

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