Senior Cost Manager – Quantity Surveyor, Real Estate

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $130k - $155k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 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 primary day-to-day client interface for real estate construction projects • Deliver cost management services across a portfolio of real estate construction projects • 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 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 • Drive engineering priorities based on cost impact • Resolve scheduling issues proactively with minimal supervision • Manage cost checks, valuations, cost auditing, and cost validation processes • Manage post-contract cost variances, change control, contingency, commitments, and tracking logs • Prepare funding data presentations and coordinate value engineering sessions • Provide commercial input to design optioneering and value engineering exercises • Review contractor and subcontractor pricing and lead client-side negotiations • Produce monthly cost reports for client presentation • Negotiate and agree final accounts in a timely manner • Compile built-cost estimate records for benchmarking • Identify, coach, and mentor talent • Track commission margins, monthly 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 cost management role in the construction industry • RICS accredited or working towards it preferred • Experience leading cost management on medium or large-sized, 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 work independently in a remote setting while collaborating with project teams, clients, consultants, and contractors • Strong understanding of the full cost management lifecycle from planning and design through construction and closeout • Client-facing stakeholder management experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonuses may be available • Comprehensive benefits package • Healthy, productive, and flexible working environment • Work-life balance support • Inclusive environment committed to diversity • Opportunity to affect change • Confidential handling of information

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