Senior Cost Manager – Quantity Surveyor, Data Center Construction

🔥 14 hours ago

🇺🇸 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 mission-critical, data center, and digital infrastructure projects across multiple U.S. markets • Estimate and negotiate change orders throughout the construction lifecycle • Produce and present final cost plans and updated cost plans at design milestones • Review design-team and general-contractor cost estimates • Reconcile changes and verify contractor cost data • Gather project status information and prepare cost estimate updates • Prepare written comments and executive summaries for contractor submissions • Coordinate cost information from owners, contractors, suppliers, subcontractors, and architects/engineers • Drive engineering priorities based on cost impact • Manage cost checks, valuations, cost auditing, and cost validation • Manage post-contract cost variances, change control, contingency, and commitment tracking • Prepare funding-data presentations and coordinate value-engineering sessions • Review contractor and subcontractor pricing and lead client-side negotiations • Produce monthly cost reports for client presentation • Negotiate and agree final accounts • Compile built-cost estimate records for benchmarking • Coach and mentor talent • Manage commission margins, fee/resource forecasts, and financial reports using internal software • Implement business management systems and delivery methodologies • Provide leadership and uphold company values, delivery standards, and applicable SOX controls

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • RICS accredited or working towards it preferred • Experience leading cost management on medium or large, medium- to high-complexity construction projects • Experience in mission-critical, data center, advanced technology, industrial, power, or major infrastructure environments preferred • Experience supporting multi-phase campus developments, large-scale capital programs, or highly technical facilities preferred • Construction consultancy experience strongly preferred • Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, procurement routes, value management, and value engineering • Excellent communication skills • Ability and willingness to travel and provide onsite project support, typically 25–50% of the time • Ability to work independently and as part of a team

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work flexibility • Flexible working environment supporting work-life balance • Bonuses may be available • Comprehensive benefits package • Reasonable travel preferences and geographic considerations accommodated whenever feasible • Equal opportunity and inclusive work environment