Senior Cost Manager – Quantity Surveyor, Construction

🔥 16 hours ago

🌶️ New Mexico – Remote

🌶️ New Mexico – Remote

💵 $140k - $170k / 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

• Act as the key day-to-day client interface and deliver value-added cost management services • Provide leadership and direction aligned with Turner & Townsend’s purpose, values and vision • Estimate and negotiate change orders throughout the construction lifecycle • Produce and present final cost plans and cost estimates • Review and participate in design-team and general-contractor cost estimate development • Reconcile changes and verify contractor cost data • Gather project status information and prepare cost estimate updates • Prepare written comments on contractor submissions, including executive summaries • Coordinate cost information from NPA, subcontractors, architects and engineers • Inform engineering priorities based on cost impact • Manage cost checks, valuations, cost controls and change management • Manage contingency, cost-impact and commitment-tracking logs • Prepare funding-data presentations and coordinate value-engineering sessions • Develop and update cost plans and estimates at design milestones • Provide commercial input to design optioneering and value-engineering exercises • Review contractor and subcontractor pricing and lead client-side negotiations • Manage post-contract cost variances and change-control processes • Establish robust cost-auditing, valuation and cost-validation processes • Produce monthly cost reports for client presentation • Negotiate and agree final accounts • Compile built-cost estimate records for benchmarking • Coach and mentor talent • Track commission margins, fees, resource forecasts and financial reports using internal software • Implement and maintain internal business-management systems, delivery methodologies and tools • Support SOX control responsibilities where applicable

🎯 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 accredited or working towards it is preferred • Experience leading cost management on medium or large construction projects of medium to high complexity • Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred • Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, including procurement routes, value management and value engineering • Excellent communication skills • Ability to work independently and as part of a team • Client-facing experience • Ability to work proactively with minimal supervision

🏖️ Benefits

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