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
• Estimate and negotiate change orders throughout the construction lifecycle across multiple project phases and work packages • Provide estimating and cost planning, including producing and presenting final cost plans • Review and participate in cost estimate development with design services teams and general contractors • Reconcile changes and verify the accuracy of contractor data • Gather project status information and prepare cost estimate updates • Prepare written comments and executive summaries on contractor submissions • Coordinate cost information from suppliers, subcontractors, quantity sources, and design teams • Drive engineering priorities based on cost impact • Resolve scheduling issues proactively with minimal supervision • Manage cost checks, valuations, cost impact assessments, contingency management, and commitment tracking • Prepare funding data presentations and coordinate value engineering sessions • Develop and update cost plans and estimates through design milestones • 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 • Manage cost auditing, valuation, cost validation, post-contract variances, and change control • 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 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 within the construction industry • RICS accreditation or active progress toward accreditation preferred • Experience leading cost management on medium to large, moderately to highly complex construction projects • Construction consultancy experience strongly preferred • Knowledge of construction industry technical matters, including procurement routes, value management, and value engineering • Experience supporting large-scale commercial, industrial, mission-critical, or campus-style construction programs preferred • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills • Comfortable operating in a client-facing environment • Ability to work independently and as part of a team
🏖️ Benefits
• Remote flexibility for local professionals • Healthy, productive and flexible working environment • Work-life balance support • Opportunity and voice to affect change • Equal opportunity and inclusive environment
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