Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Data Center Construction

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $135k - $165k / 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 for cost management services • Support large-scale hyperscale data center campus or mission-critical construction programs in the U.S. • Estimate and negotiate change orders throughout the construction lifecycle • Produce and present final cost plans and provide cost planning • Review and participate in design-team and general-contractor cost estimate development • Reconcile changes and verify contractor data accuracy • Gather project status information and prepare cost estimate updates • Prepare written comments on contractor submissions, including executive summaries • Coordinate cost information from NPA, subcontractors, suppliers, architects, and engineers • Drive engineering priorities based on cost impact • Resolve scheduling issues proactively with minimal supervision • Manage cost checks, valuations, cost variances, change control, contingencies, 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 negotiations • Perform quantity surveying, cost controls, and change management throughout the project lifecycle • Manage 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 • Identify, coach, and mentor talent • Manage commission margins, fee/resource forecasts, and financial reports using internal software • Implement internal business-management systems, delivery methodologies, and tools • Support applicable SOX control responsibilities

🎯 Requirements

• Ability and willingness to travel and provide onsite project support, typically 25-50% of the time • Must be physically based in the United States • Legally authorized to work in the U.S. • 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 • Experience leading cost management on medium or large, medium-to-high complexity construction projects • Experience preferably in data center, mission-critical, advanced technology, industrial, semiconductor, manufacturing, power, or major infrastructure environments • Experience supporting hyperscale data center campuses, mission-critical facilities, large-scale capital programs, or highly technical facilities preferred • Construction consultancy experience strongly preferred • Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, including procurement routes, value management, and value engineering • Excellent communication skills • RICS accreditation or progress toward it preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work flexibility • Reasonable travel preferences and geographic considerations accommodated whenever feasible • Bonuses may be available • Comprehensive benefits package • Healthy, productive, and flexible working environment • Work-life balance support • Inclusive environment • Equal opportunity employment