Cost Manager – Commercial Real Estate Construction

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $120k - $150k / 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

• Deliver cost planning and commercial management services across workplace, retail, manufacturing, and technical projects • Prepare cost estimates and cost plans from concept through close-out for tenant improvement, remodel, and new build projects • Perform quantity takeoffs in Bluebeam and pricing in CSI MasterFormat structures • Build and maintain parametric and hybrid cost models • Contribute coded data to the benchmarking library • Lead bid leveling and general contractor and subcontractor bid analysis • Qualify scope, normalize exclusions and allowances, and present recommendations • Test contractor pricing against estimates, historical data, and market intelligence • Support value engineering by identifying alternatives with quantified cost and schedule impacts • Review change orders for entitlement, scope, and pricing • Maintain change, purchase order, and pay application registers • Reconcile pay applications to approved values and work in place • Prepare cashflow, accrual, and estimate-at-completion forecasts • Identify and escalate commercial exposure • Present cost and risk positions to client project teams • Contribute data and insight to portfolio capital planning and program reporting • Maintain clean templates, WBS, and cost code structures • Develop reusable templates and checklists • Document methods, assumptions, and lessons learned • Support onboarding and review for analysts • Apply client contract provisions and financial policies, including SOX controls where applicable

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, architectural engineering, quantity surveying, or a related field preferred • Three to six years of relevant experience • In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered • Hands-on experience in construction estimating and commercial administration • Experience with quantity takeoffs, subcontractor bid leveling, subcontract and change order review, and submittal and procurement log management • Contractor-side experience on tenant improvement and renovation projects • Working knowledge of CSI MasterFormat, change order mechanics, contingency, and basic cashflow forecasting • Willingness to develop fluency in GMP reconciliation, escalation, and AACE estimate classification • Ability to read and apply contract documents and verify proposed changes against drawings, specifications, and field conditions • Proficiency in Bluebeam and Excel, including formula-driven estimates • Familiarity with Viewpoint, Building Connected, or Procore • Interest in Python, BI tools, or AI-assisted analysis is a plus • Organized and detail-oriented • Comfortable leading meetings and driving follow-up actions with project stakeholders • Clear written and verbal communication • Judgment to escalate questions or exposures to senior colleagues • Progress toward CCP, MRICS, or PMP is encouraged

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonuses may be available • Comprehensive benefits package • Healthy, productive, and flexible working environment • Work-life balance support • Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace • Confidentiality of applicant information