Turner & Townsend
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.
Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor – Data Center Construction
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Turner & Townsend
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
• Drive a massive, multi-phase data center construction program in the Greater Austin area • Serve as a key day-to-day stakeholder interface • Manage costs, commercial oversight, and financial controls throughout the project lifecycle • Estimate and negotiate change orders throughout construction • Produce and present cost plans and estimates • Review cost estimates developed with design teams and contractors • Reconcile changes and verify contractor data accuracy • Gather status information and prepare cost estimate updates • Prepare written comments and executive summaries on contractor submissions • Coordinate cost information from contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, A/Es, and project stakeholders • Inform engineering priorities based on cost impact • Manage cost checks, valuations, cost impact assessments, contingency, 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, and change management • Manage cost auditing, valuation, and cost validation processes • Produce monthly cost reports for the client • Negotiate and agree final accounts in a timely manner • Compile built cost estimate records and benchmark data • Coach and mentor talent • Manage commission margin levels, fee/resource forecasts, and financial reports using internal software • Implement internal business management systems, delivery methodologies, and tools • Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities
🎯 Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Cost Management, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, or a construction-related field • Minimum 5–7 years of relevant cost management experience in the construction industry • RICS accreditation or progress toward accreditation preferred • Experience leading cost management activities on medium- to large-scale, moderately to highly complex construction projects • Construction consultancy experience strongly preferred • Experience supporting large-scale commercial, industrial, campus, mission-critical, manufacturing, or similarly complex construction projects preferred • Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, procurement routes, value management, and value engineering • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills • Experience working in fast-paced project environments with multiple stakeholders and concurrent construction activities preferred • Ability to work independently and as part of a team • Ability to operate in a client-facing environment • Local to the Greater Austin area and able to travel occasionally to the project site
🏖️ Benefits
• Remote flexibility for local professionals • Healthy, productive, and flexible working environment • Work-life balance support • Equal opportunity and inclusive work environment • Confidential handling of information according to EEO guidelines
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