Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Construction Management

Turner & Townsend; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 100,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to join our Boston team. You will lead cost management on a diverse portfolio of projects, advising on procurement, budgeting, and risk management while mentoring junior staff.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in a construction field and 3–5 years’ experience, with potential for RICS accreditation. Base salary ranges from $100k to $135k USD, plus bonuses and benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a related construction field.
• Minimum 3–5 years of relevant experience in cost management or quantity surveying within construction.
• RICS accreditation is valuable or currently being pursued.
• Experience supporting cost management on medium to large-scale construction projects.
• Construction consultancy experience strongly preferred.
• Good knowledge of procurement routes, value management, and value engineering; strong communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Advise clients on cost and procurement strategies and manage vendor qualification and bid processes.
• Develop project estimates for full lifecycles, review junior staff work, and present costs to clients.
• Provide value engineering recommendations and risk assessments; challenge costs with benchmark data.
• Oversee cost reporting, budgets, and spend forecasts; maintain risk registers and host project reviews.
• Manage payment applications, change orders, and contractual matters; ensure alignment with financial controls.
• Benchmark performance and drive best practices across projects; monitor final accounting and closeouts.
• Lead post-contract reviews and document lessons learned for future delivery.

Skills

Cost management

Quantity surveying

Procurement

Value engineering

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

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

Tools

Cost Estimating Software

Take-off Software

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 andprogrammesas 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 & Townsend are looking for a Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to join our Boston team and support construction cost services across a diverse portfolio of projects for our key clients. The ideal candidate will be driven and promote our Turner & Townsend purposes and values.

Responsibilities:

• Advise clients on cost and procurement strategies, manage prequalification of vendors, assess proposals, bids, and bid levelling documents, make final recommendations to the client, attend and chair bid interviews, and manage the appointment process.
• Manage estimating services for full project lifecycles by developing project estimates (relating to construction, fees, direct work, and other costs), reviewing estimations prepared by junior team members, presenting estimates to clients, providing value engineering recommendations and risk assessments, meeting with vendors to review, validate, and challenge costs, and utilizing benchmark data from similar projects.
• Manage cost reporting by establishing reporting schedules, reviewing and presenting cost reports and forecasts, reviewing project budgets and spend forecasts with the client, developing and maintaining commercial risk registers, and hosting periodic meetings with project teams and vendors.
• Manage cost control processes 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 and making recommendations to the client, and applying dispute prevention, management, and resolution procedures across payment requisitions and contractual matters.
• Manage and monitor the invoicing process to ensure alignment with project delivery and financial controls.
• Benchmark performance against other successful commissions and comparable projects to drive best practices and consistency.
• Manage all facets of the final accounting process and post-contract audits and account closeouts.
• Hold post-contract reviews with the client to establish lessons learned documentation and apply insights to improve future project delivery.
• Develop procedures governing handover of projects across varying project scopes and delivery methods.
• Perform all duties through the preparation and use 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, engineering, or a related construction field.
• Minimum 3–5 years of relevant experience working in a cost management or quantity surveying role within the construction industry.
• RICS accredited or working toward accreditation is valuable.
• Experience supporting cost management on medium to large-scale construction projects.
• Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, including procurement routes, value management, and value engineering.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

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

The base salary range for this role is $100K-$135K USD. This range reflects the company's good faith estimate of the base salary for this position at the time of the posting. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity. In addition to base salary, employees may be eligible for bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package.

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.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list or that have not followed due process. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property ofTurner & Townsend and arenot subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team,to submit candidates for review.