Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Construction Management

Turner & Townsend; Georgia; On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in Atlanta seeks an experienced Cost Manager/Quantity Surveyor to join our growing team, supporting cost services across a diverse portfolio including real estate developments, data centers, and civil/government infrastructure.

Requirements include a Bachelor’s in construction-related field and 3–5 years in cost management, with RV/RICS accreditation valued. On-site presence may be required as client needs evolve. We offer a dynamic, collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction-related field required.
• 3–5 years of cost management experience in construction projects.
• RICS accreditation valued or working towards it.
• Experience supporting cost management on medium/large projects, preferably with datacenter or mission-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Advise client on strategies, manage vendor prequalification, assess proposals and bids, chair interviews, and manage appointment process.
• Develop project estimates (construction, fees, direct costs) and review estimates by junior team members.
• Present cost estimates to client, provide value engineering recommendations and risk assessments.
• Establish cost reporting schedules, review cost reports and forecasts, manage project budgets and spend forecasts, maintain risk registers.
• Review payment applications, liaise with project managers on entitlements, review change orders, and manage invoicing and disputes according to project needs.
• Perform final accounting, close-out audits, and post-contract reviews to capture lessons learned.

Skills

Cost management

Quantity surveying

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction

RICS accreditation or working towards it

Job description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over22,000 peoplein more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure,energyand 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 includeprogramme, 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 estateservicesand investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premierprogramme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Turner & Townsendis seeking an experiencedCost Managerand/orQuantity Surveyorto join our growing Atlanta team, supporting construction cost services across a diverse portfolio of projects, including real estate developments, data centers (including major hyperscale facilities), and civil and local government infrastructure programs.

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 byestablishingreporting schedule, reviewing & presenting costreportsand forecasts, reviewing project budget & spend forecast with the client, developing &maintainingcommercial 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 &monitorinvoicing process.
• Benchmark performance against other successful commissions.
• Manage allfacetsof the final accounting process and post contract audits and account close outs.
• Hold post-contract reviews with the client toestablisha 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.

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying,engineeringor field related to construction.
• Minimum 3–5 years of relevant experience working in a cost management role in the construction industry, with exposure to datacenter, mission-critical, or highly serviced projects preferred.
• RICS accredited or working towards it is valuable.
• Experience supporting cost management on medium orlarge sizedconstruction projects, ideally including MEP-intensive environments.
• Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management, and value engineering.
• Strong communicationskills.

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

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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