Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor – Data Center Construction

🔥 13 hours ago

🌴 South Carolina – Remote

🌴 South 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 and support contract awards • Manage estimating services throughout the project lifecycle • Develop construction estimates, review junior team estimates, and present estimates and cost plans to clients • Perform benchmark analysis and provide value engineering recommendations and risk assessments • Review, validate, and challenge project costs and commercial assumptions with contractors, consultants, and vendors • Establish cost reporting schedules and prepare and present cost reports and forecasts • Review project budgets and spend forecasts and maintain commercial risk registers • Facilitate project cost reviews and manage cost control processes • Review payment applications, assess contractor entitlements, evaluate change orders, and make 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 for 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 SOX control responsibilities where applicable

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Cost Management, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, 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 data center, mission-critical, advanced technology, industrial, manufacturing, or other 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

• Flexible working environment • Work-life balance support • Opportunity to affect change • Inclusive and diverse workplace • Confidential handling of information • Remote work availability (employees can work remotely)