Cost Manager – Commercial Real Estate Construction

🕒 September 29

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $100k - $135k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 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 cost management services for large-scale corporate real estate, office, and workplace development projects • Advise clients on procurement strategies and manage vendor prequalification, proposals, bids, bid levelling, bid interviews, recommendations, and appointments • Manage project estimating for construction, fees, direct work, and other costs • Review junior team members’ estimates and present estimates, value engineering recommendations, and risk assessments to clients • Meet vendors to review, validate, and challenge costs; benchmark estimates against data from other projects • Establish cost-reporting schedules and review and present cost reports and forecasts • Review project budgets and spending forecasts with clients; maintain commercial risk registers • Host periodic meetings with project teams and vendors • Manage cost control, payment application assessments, contractor entitlements, change orders, payment requisitions, and contractual disputes • Manage and monitor invoicing • Benchmark performance against successful commissions • Manage final accounting, post-contract audits, and account closeouts • Conduct post-contract reviews, document lessons learned, and create training materials • Develop project handover procedures

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or a field related to construction • Minimum 3–5 years of relevant experience in a cost management role in the construction industry • RICS accredited or working towards it is valuable • Experience supporting cost management on medium or large-sized commercial, corporate interiors, workplace, office, or regional hub construction projects • Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred • Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, including procurement routes, value management, and value engineering • Strong communication skills • Ability to use or prepare Bid Analysis Sheets, Change Control Forms, Cost Estimating Software, and Take-off Software • Must adhere to SOX control responsibilities where applicable

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonuses may be available • Comprehensive benefits package • Healthy, productive and flexible working environment • Work-life balance • Equal opportunity and inclusive work environment

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