Senior Cost Manager, Quantity Surveyor – Data Center Construction

🕒 February 27

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $130k - $160k / 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

• Estimating and negotiating change orders throughout the construction lifecycle. • Provide estimate and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan. • Review and participate with the design services team and general contractor in the development of cost estimates. • Reconcile changes and assist the general contractor to ensure that their data is accurate. • Communicate or meet with the general contractor and owner of project manager to gather status information to prepare a cost estimate update. • Prepare written comments to the general contractor’s submissions, including the executive summary. • Coordinate all sources of cost information for cost discussions and suppliers direct from NPA, subs, quantities from A/Es. • Inform and drive engineering priorities based on cost impact. • Work proactively with minimal supervision to resolve scheduling issues. • Manage cost checks and carry out valuations on larger projects.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction. • Minimum 5-7 years of relevant experience working in a cost management role in the construction industry. • RICS accredited or working towards it is preferred. • Experience of leading cost management on medium or large sized construction projects of medium to high complexity. • Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred. • Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management, and value engineering. • Excellent communication skills. • Ability to travel to site once or twice a month for 2 to 3 days at a time.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Flexible working hours • Paid time off • Professional development opportunities