Cost Manager – Life Sciences Construction

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🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

⏰ 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

• Advise clients on procurement strategies and manage vendor prequalification processes • Assess proposals, bids, and bid leveling documentation; make recommendations; attend bid interviews; and support contract awards • Manage estimating services throughout the project lifecycle • Develop construction estimates, review junior team members’ estimates, present estimates and cost plans to clients, perform benchmark analysis, and provide value engineering recommendations and risk assessments • Meet with contractors, consultants, and vendors to review, validate, and challenge project costs and commercial assumptions • Establish cost reporting schedules; prepare and present cost reports and forecasts; review budgets and spend forecasts; maintain commercial risk registers; and facilitate project cost reviews • Manage cost control processes, including payment application reviews, contractor entitlement assessments, change order evaluations, and commercial recommendations • Support contract administration and dispute avoidance • Manage and monitor project invoicing processes • Benchmark project performance against historical and comparable projects • Manage final account negotiations, post-contract audits, and project closeout activities • Conduct lessons learned reviews and support implementation of best practices • Develop procedures governing project handover and closeout activities • Utilize cost estimating software, takeoff software, bid analysis tools, and change management documentation • Collaborate with project managers, designers, contractors, vendors, and client stakeholders • Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Cost Management, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, Architecture, or a related construction discipline • Minimum 3-5 years of experience in cost management, quantity surveying, estimating, or commercial management within the construction industry • Experience supporting medium to large-scale construction projects • Experience supporting life sciences, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, laboratory, healthcare, advanced manufacturing, industrial, or highly technical construction projects is preferred • RICS accreditation or progress toward accreditation is valued • Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred • Good understanding of construction procurement methods, value engineering, cost planning, and commercial management practices • Experience preparing estimates, managing budgets, reviewing change orders, and producing cost reports throughout the project lifecycle • Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills • Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with multidisciplinary project teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Employees can work remotely • Healthy, productive and flexible working environment • Work-life balance support • Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace • Confidential handling of information according to EEO guidelines