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
• Act as the key day-to-day client interface for cost management services • Support large-scale mission-critical, industrial, and campus-style construction programs • Estimate and negotiate change orders throughout the construction lifecycle • Produce and present final cost plans and updated cost plans at design milestones • Review design and contractor cost estimates and reconcile changes • Gather project status information and prepare cost estimate updates • Prepare written comments on general contractor submissions, including executive summaries • Coordinate cost information from owners, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, and design teams • Inform engineering priorities based on cost impact • Resolve scheduling issues proactively with minimal supervision • Manage cost checks, valuations, cost auditing, and cost validation processes • Manage cost impacts, contingency, commitment tracking, variances, and change control • 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 throughout the project lifecycle • Produce monthly cost reports for client presentation • Negotiate and agree final accounts • Compile built-cost estimate records for benchmarking • Identify, 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 related construction field • Minimum 5-7 years of relevant experience in a construction-industry cost management role • RICS accredited or working towards accreditation preferred • Experience leading cost management on medium to large-scale, medium- to high-complexity construction projects • Experience supporting mission-critical, advanced technology, data center, industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, or large campus-style developments preferred • Construction consultancy experience strongly preferred • Good knowledge of construction-industry technical matters, including procurement routes, value management, and value engineering • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills • Comfortable operating in a client-facing role • Able to work independently and as part of a team • Willingness and ability to travel to the Columbus-area project site approximately once per month • Ability to work remotely from Ohio or surrounding states • Ability to use internal software and business management systems • Must adhere to applicable SOX controls
🏖️ Benefits
• Employees can work remotely • Flexible working environment that respects work-life balance • Bonuses may be available in addition to base salary • Comprehensive benefits package • Inclusive environment and equal opportunity employment • Opportunity to affect change and succeed in work and life
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