Senior Cost Manager – Quantity Surveyor, Data Center Construction

🕒 July 3

🌵 Arizona – Remote

🌵 Arizona – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Turner & Townsend

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📋 Description

• Serve as the primary day-to-day client interface on large-scale data center construction projects. • Ensure delivery of disciplined, value-driven cost management services, focused on heavy civil and site development scopes. • Estimate and negotiate change orders throughout the construction lifecycle with particular focus on sitework, earthworks, utilities, and civil packages. • Provide detailed estimate and cost planning, including producing and presenting cost plans aligned with early works and heavy civil scopes. • Review and actively participate with the design team and general contractor in the development and validation of cost estimates. • Reconcile changes and ensure contractor-provided data is complete, accurate, and well-substantiated. • Prepare clear, concise written reviews of contractor submissions, including executive-level summaries. • Inform and help prioritize engineering and design decisions based on cost and constructability impacts. • Manage cost checks and carry out valuations on large-scale civil and infrastructure scopes with accuracy and consistency. • Support post-contract cost control, including change management and governance processes. • Produce accurate monthly cost reports for client presentation and decision-making.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a related field. • Minimum 6–7 years of relevant experience in cost management within the construction industry, including exposure to large-scale infrastructure or heavy civil projects with transferable applicability to data center, mission critical, or similarly complex construction environments. • Experience supporting complex, fast-paced construction programs with significant site development components. • RICS accredited or actively working toward accreditation is preferred. • Strong understanding of construction methods, procurement strategies, and commercial management principles. • Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills. • Candidates must be physically based in the United States and legally authorized to work in the U.S.; remote work is permitted only within the United States. • Ability to travel to project sites as required.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements • Professional development opportunities