Senior Cost Manager – Data Center Construction

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🏄 California, Texas, +1 more states – Remote

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

💵 $145k - $165k / year

⏰ 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

• Support client data center sites from lease signature through Ready for Service (RFS) • Prepare the owner’s cost report and provide an independent assessment of construction cost exposure • Join weekly OAC-style calls and review developer cost reports and change impacts • Track long-lead equipment, GMP buyout, purchase orders, GC labor and contract status against the committed schedule • Build cost records and WBS mapping, run what-if cost scenarios and hand over the cost baseline to the onsite team • Prepare monthly owner’s cost reports for Senior Project Manager sign-off • Review changes against benchmarks and baselines and assess potential client cost exposure • Report committed and forecast costs against approved budgets and track contingency and allowance drawdown • Establish and maintain site cost baselines and the cost side of the Risk Exposure Log • Provide cost trends and cost inputs for site reviews and exception escalation briefs • Track and escalate developer and GC delay and force majeure notices • Participate in weekly site calls and OAC meetings with cost input • Visit active sites from the regional hub and record actuals against portfolio benchmarks at RFS • Cover three to four projects and share program-wide tools, templates and cost-reporting standards • Quantify cost impacts of schedule exceptions and acceleration options with the Senior Schedule Manager • Operate within the owner’s representative scope by monitoring, reporting and escalating through the client • Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or a construction-related field • Minimum 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 • Data center experience preferred • Good knowledge of cost benchmarking, change valuation, forecasting, contingency management and open-book contract structures • Construction consultancy experience strongly preferred • Excellent communication skills, discretion and independence when reviewing developer and GC figures • Advanced Excel • Google Suite • Power BI or equivalent • Cost management and forecasting tools • Developer and GC cost platforms as read-only users • RICS, AACE or equivalent certification preferred • RICS accredited or working towards it preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonuses may be available • Comprehensive benefits package • Healthy, productive and flexible working environment • Work-life balance • Inclusive environment • Equal opportunity employment

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