Senior Cost Manager – Data Center

🔥 15 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $130k - $155k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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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

• Serve as the key day-to-day client interface on large-scale data center construction projects • Deliver cost management services across the full project lifecycle • Provide leadership and direction as a senior team member • Collaborate with clients, design teams, contractors, and stakeholders from planning through closeout • Estimate and negotiate change orders throughout construction • Produce and present cost plans and estimates at design milestones • Review design-service and general-contractor cost estimates • Reconcile changes and verify contractor data accuracy • Gather project status information and prepare cost estimate updates • Prepare written comments on contractor submissions and executive summaries • Coordinate cost information from owners, contractors, suppliers, subcontractors, architects, and engineers • Drive engineering priorities based on cost impact • Manage cost checks, valuations, cost variances, change control, contingencies, and commitment tracking • Prepare funding-data presentations and coordinate value-engineering sessions • Provide commercial input to design optioneering and value engineering • Review contractor and subcontractor pricing and lead client-side negotiations • Perform quantity surveying, cost controls, cost auditing, and cost validation • Produce monthly cost reports for client presentation • Negotiate and agree final accounts • Compile built-cost estimate records for benchmarking • Identify, coach, and mentor talent • Track commission margins, fees, resource forecasts, and financial reports using internal software • Maintain internal business-management systems, delivery methodologies, and tools • Fulfill SOX control responsibilities where applicable • Develop and execute procurement strategies for Retail Refresh, De Novo, and Data Center capital programs • Prepare and manage RFPs and RFQs, scopes of work, pricing schedules, tender documents, supplier engagement, and bid clarifications • Conduct commercial bid evaluations and bid levelling • Support contractor selection, negotiations, award recommendations, frameworks, MSAs, unit-rate schedules, and vendor onboarding • Apply ROM estimating, budget validation, market benchmarking, and commercial assessments to procurement decisions

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a construction-related field • Minimum 5–7 years of relevant experience in a construction-industry cost management role • RICS accreditation or progress toward it preferred • 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 • Expertise in cost planning, estimating, change management, commercial negotiations, and cost control • Experience supporting complex mission-critical or advanced-technology construction programs • Ability to work proactively with minimal supervision • Ability to operate confidently in a client-facing environment

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonuses may be available in addition to base salary • Comprehensive benefits package • Healthy, productive, and flexible working environment • Work-life balance support • Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace • Confidential handling of applicant information

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