Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor – Data Center Construction

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $120k - $140k / 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

• Advise clients on procurement strategies • Manage vendor prequalification, proposal and bid assessments, bid leveling, recommendations, bid interviews, and vendor appointment processes • Manage project estimating services 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 using data from other projects • Establish cost reporting schedules and review and present cost reports and forecasts • Review project budgets and spend forecasts with clients • Develop and 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 and create lessons-learned documents and training manuals • Develop project handover procedures • Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a construction-related field • Minimum 3–5 years of relevant experience in a construction industry cost management role • RICS accredited or working towards it is valuable • Experience supporting cost management on medium or large-sized construction projects • Construction consultancy experience 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working environment • Work-life balance support • Inclusive workplace • Equal opportunity employment • Opportunity to affect change • Healthy and productive working environment