Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor – Data Center Construction

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

Turner & Townsend are looking for a Cost Manager/Quantity Surveyor to join our team and support the delivery of construction cost management services on complex and high-profile projects. The ideal candidate will be driven, collaborative, and committed to promoting Turner & Townsend’s purpose and values, while contributing to successful project outcomes and exceptional client service. 

To be successful in this role, you will have strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to thrive in a client-facing environment. You will work closely with project teams and clients throughout the project lifecycle, supporting cost planning, cost control, and commercial management activities while helping deliver best-in-class solutions across our growing portfolio of mission-critical projects. 


Responsibilities: 

• Advising client on strategies, managing prequalification of vendors, assessing proposals, bids, and bid levelling documents, making final recommendations to the client, attending & chairing bid interviews, and managing appointment process. 
• Manage estimating services for full project by developing project estimates (relating to construction, fees, direct work and other costs), reviewing estimations prepared by junior team members, presenting estimates to client, presenting value engineering recommendations and risk assessments to client, meeting with vendors to review, validate, and challenge costs, and reviewing estimates by utilizing benchmark data collected from other projects.  
• Manage cost reporting by establishing reporting schedule, reviewing & presenting cost reports and forecasts, reviewing project budget & spend forecast with the client, developing & maintaining commercial risk register, and hosting periodic meetings with project team & vendors.  
• Manage cost control process by reviewing payment application assessments prepared by junior team members, liaising with project managers to recommend contractor entitlements, reviewing requests for change orders from vendors & making recommendations to client, and using dispute prevention/management/resolution procedures to manage payment requisitions, change orders, and contractual disputes.  
• Manage & monitor invoicing process.  
• Benchmark performance against other successful commissions.  
• Manage all facets of the final accounting process and post contract audits and account close outs.  
• Hold post-contract reviews with the client to establish a lesson learned document and apply lessons to create training manual. 
• Develop procedures governing handover of project.  
• Perform all the duties above through the use/preparation of Bid Analysis Sheets, Change Control Forms, Cost Estimating Software, and Take-off Software. 
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction. 
• Minimum 3-5 years of relevant experience working in a cost management role in the construction industry. 
• RICS accredited or working towards it is valuable 
• Experience supporting cost management on medium or large sized construction projects. 
• Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred. 
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management, and value engineering.  
• Strong communication skills. 

Additional Information

*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs.

The base salary range for this role is $110,000-$120,