Senior Cost Manager – Quantity Surveyor, Edu & Gov Construction

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $185k / 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

• Serve as the key day-to-day client interface for complex education and government capital projects • Deliver value-added cost management services and achieve client objectives • Estimate and negotiate change orders throughout the construction lifecycle • Produce and present final cost plans and updated cost plans at design milestones • Review and participate in cost estimate development with design teams and general contractors • 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 NPA, subcontractors, suppliers, architects, and engineers • Inform engineering priorities based on cost impact • Manage cost checks, valuations, cost auditing, and cost validation processes • Manage post-contract cost variances, change control, contingencies, commitments, and tracking logs • 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 • Coach and mentor talent • Ensure leadership and service delivery comply with appointment conditions • Track commission margins, fees, resource forecasts, and financial reports using internal software • Maintain internal business management systems, delivery methodologies, and tools • Promote Turner & Townsend’s one-business culture and values

🎯 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 cost management role in the construction industry • RICS accredited or working towards it preferred • Experience leading cost management on medium or large, medium- to high-complexity construction projects • Construction consultancy experience strongly preferred • Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, including procurement routes, value management, and value engineering • Excellent communication skills • Experience delivering cost management services on education, civic, public sector, institutional, government, or large-scale community infrastructure projects • Strong understanding of project costs from planning and programming through design, procurement, construction, and closeout • Public sector client, funding requirement, budget governance, and stakeholder-driven decision-making experience highly preferred • Ability to work independently and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams • Ability to work proactively with minimal supervision • Willingness to comply with applicable SOX control responsibilities

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonuses may be available • Comprehensive benefits package • Healthy, productive, and flexible working environment • Work-life balance support • Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace • Confidential handling of applicant information