Senior Cost Manager – Data Center Construction

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🏄 California, Texas, +1 more states – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 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

• Provide an independent cost view on data center deals from intake through lease execution • Produce high-level dollars-per-megawatt budgets and rough-order-of-magnitude estimates • Join deal calls, take notes and provide cost-review context to the Pre-Lease Senior Program Manager • Set up and validate CRA exhibits and pre-approve Expense Item Requests • Review CRA and EIR claims against supporting documentation within three business days • Review developer preliminary budgets and owner-furnished versus lease-scope splits • Conduct budget challenge rounds and workshops with developer cost teams • Issue cost narratives covering caps, cash flow and termination exposure • Contribute cost grades and entries to the Risk Exposure Log within 24 hours • Confirm the cost position at lease and hand it over to Delivery • Review general-contractor procurement and delivery models • Flag ROM-to-GMP drift and maintain cash-flow look-ahead • Build portfolio cost-forecast model inputs and hand over open items • Report weekly CRA status and provide auditable backup to the client’s finance team • Tag deals to WBS Level 3 benchmarks and $/critical MW entries • Own global cost benchmarking across the portfolio • Maintain cost templates and the one-record standard • Perform QA/QC and cover colleagues’ deals • Manage approximately six pre-lease deals alongside Pre-Lease Senior Program Managers • Operate within the pre-lease scope boundary without negotiating or providing legal, commercial or deal-making advice • Adhere to SOX control responsibilities where applicable

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or a field related to construction • Minimum 5–7 years of relevant experience in a construction-industry cost management role • Experience leading cost management on medium or large, medium- to high-complexity construction projects • Construction consultancy experience strongly preferred • Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, including procurement routes, value management and value engineering • Excellent communication skills • Advanced Excel proficiency • Power BI or equivalent, cost management and forecasting tools • Experience with developer budget and cost-report formats • RICS, AACE or equivalent certification preferred • RICS accreditation or progress toward it preferred • Data center and mission-critical construction cost management experience • Owner-side or consultancy experience • Ability to work from a regional hub in Northern Virginia, Dallas, San Francisco or Canada, with visits to developer sites as needed

🏖️ Benefits

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

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