Senior Cost Manager – Quantity Surveyor, Healthcare Construction

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $130k - $170k / 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 and deliver value-added cost management services • Estimate and negotiate change orders throughout the construction lifecycle • Provide estimates and cost planning, including producing and presenting final cost plans • 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 and executive summaries on contractor submissions • Coordinate cost information from project stakeholders, suppliers, subcontractors, and architects/engineers • Inform engineering priorities based on cost impact • Resolve scheduling issues proactively with minimal supervision • Manage cost checks and valuations on larger projects • Manage post-contract cost variances and change-control processes • Track cost impacts, contingencies, and commitments • 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, 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 • Track commission margins, fee/resource forecasts, and financial reports using internal software • Implement and maintain internal business management systems, delivery methodologies, and tools • Promote Turner & Townsend’s purpose, values, vision, and one-business culture • 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 experience in a construction-industry cost management role • RICS accreditation or progress toward 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 • Ability to operate in a client-facing role • Ability to work independently and as part of a team • Self-motivated and driven • Ability to lead, direct, coach, and mentor talent • Knowledge of cost controls, quantity surveying, change management, cost auditing, and valuation processes

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work option • Healthy, productive, and flexible working environment • Work-life balance support • Equal opportunity and inclusive environment • Opportunity for each employee to affect change • Opportunity to develop and realize potential • Employer-paid recruitment process; candidates are not charged fees