Senior Cost Manager – Quantity Surveyor, Data Center Construction

🕒 July 3

🌵 Arizona – Remote

🌵 Arizona – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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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

• Serve as the primary day-to-day client interface on large-scale data center construction projects. • Ensure delivery of disciplined, value-driven cost management services, focused on heavy civil and site development scopes. • Estimate and negotiate change orders throughout the construction lifecycle with particular focus on sitework, earthworks, utilities, and civil packages. • Provide detailed estimate and cost planning, including producing and presenting cost plans aligned with early works and heavy civil scopes. • Review and actively participate with the design team and general contractor in the development and validation of cost estimates. • Reconcile changes and ensure contractor-provided data is complete, accurate, and well-substantiated. • Prepare clear, concise written reviews of contractor submissions, including executive-level summaries. • Inform and help prioritize engineering and design decisions based on cost and constructability impacts. • Manage cost checks and carry out valuations on large-scale civil and infrastructure scopes with accuracy and consistency. • Support post-contract cost control, including change management and governance processes. • Produce accurate monthly cost reports for client presentation and decision-making.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a related field. • Minimum 6–7 years of relevant experience in cost management within the construction industry, including exposure to large-scale infrastructure or heavy civil projects with transferable applicability to data center, mission critical, or similarly complex construction environments. • Experience supporting complex, fast-paced construction programs with significant site development components. • RICS accredited or actively working toward accreditation is preferred. • Strong understanding of construction methods, procurement strategies, and commercial management principles. • Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills. • Candidates must be physically based in the United States and legally authorized to work in the U.S.; remote work is permitted only within the United States. • Ability to travel to project sites as required.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements • Professional development opportunities