Senior Cost Manager – Quantity Surveyor, Life Sciences Construction

🕒 October 20

🇺🇸 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 • Deliver 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 design services and general-contractor cost estimates • Reconcile changes and verify contractor data • Gather project status information and prepare cost estimate updates • Review contractor submissions and prepare written comments and executive summaries • Coordinate cost information from project stakeholders, suppliers, subcontractors, and architects/engineers • Inform engineering priorities based on cost impact • Manage cost checks, valuations, cost auditing, and cost validation • Manage post-contract cost variances, change control, contingencies, commitments, and tracking logs • Prepare funding-data presentations and coordinate value-engineering sessions • Develop 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 • Produce monthly cost reports for client presentation • Negotiate and agree final accounts • Compile built-cost estimate records for benchmarking • Coach and mentor talent • Manage commission margins, fee/resource forecasts, and financial reports using internal software • Maintain internal business management systems, delivery methodologies, and tools • Support one-business culture and adhere to applicable SOX controls

🎯 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 construction projects of medium to high complexity • Construction consultancy experience 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 capability • Ability to work independently and collaborate within multidisciplinary project teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work available across the USA • Healthy, productive, and flexible working environment • Work-life balance support • Opportunity to affect change and have a voice • Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace • Confidential handling of information • Diversity and inclusion commitment