Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor – Life Sciences Construction

🔥 21 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ 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 complex Life Sciences construction projects • Act as the key day-to-day client interface • Provide cost management services across manufacturing, laboratory, R&D, and related capital projects • Estimate and negotiate change orders throughout the construction lifecycle • Produce and present final cost plans • Review and contribute to cost estimates with design teams and general contractors • 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 owners, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, architects, and engineers • Inform engineering priorities based on cost impact • Manage cost checks, valuations, cost auditing, and cost validation • Manage post-contract cost variances, change control, contingency, commitments, and tracking logs • 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 throughout the project lifecycle • Produce monthly cost reports for client presentation • Negotiate and agree final accounts • Compile built cost estimate records for benchmarking • Coach and mentor talent • Provide leadership and ensure service delivery aligns with appointment conditions • Track commission margins, fee/resource forecasts, and financial reports using internal software • Promote consistent use of business management systems and delivery methodologies • Support a one-business culture and balance the needs of 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 is preferred • Experience leading cost management on medium or large-sized, medium- to high-complexity construction projects • Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred • Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, including procurement routes, value management, and value engineering • Excellent communication skills • Client-facing and stakeholder management experience • Ability to work independently and collaborate within multidisciplinary project teams • Ability to work proactively with minimal supervision • Ability to use internal software for margin tracking, fee/resource forecasts, and financial reporting • Ability to implement and maintain business management systems and delivery methodologies • Willingness to adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work option • Healthy, productive, and flexible working environment • Work-life balance support • Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace • Opportunity to affect change and have a voice • Confidential handling of applicant information

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