Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Data Center Construction

Turner-; Fayetteville (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Cost Manager/Quantity Surveyor for a large-scale data center construction program. You will lead cost estimating, reporting, and control across multi-building projects, supporting procurement decisions and value engineering.

On-site collaboration with project teams and clients is essential. The role requires a background in construction cost management and 3–5 years of relevant experience, preferably with large or mission-critical facilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of relevant cost management experience in the construction industry.
• RICS accreditation or working towards it is valuable.
• Experience supporting cost management on medium or large construction projects.
• Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred.
• Good knowledge of procurement routes, value management, and value engineering.

Responsibilities

• Advise client on strategies, manage vendor prequalification, assess proposals and bids, and chair bid interviews.
• Develop project estimates for construction, fees and other costs; review junior staff estimates and present to client.
• Establish cost reporting schedules and maintain commercial risk registers; review budgets and forecasts with client.
• Oversee cost control processes, review payment applications and change orders, and manage disputes as needed.
• Oversee invoicing processes, benchmark performance, and support final accounting and post‑contract reviews.
• Create handover procedures and training materials from lessons learned.

Skills

Cost management

Quantity surveying

Value engineering

Vendor bid analysis

Contractual knowledge

Education

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

Tools

Cost estimating software

Take-off software

Bid analysis sheets

Job description

Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Data Center Construction

Full-time

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 programs as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include program, 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 program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to join our team and support construction cost services for a large-scale data center construction program. Projects involve complex, multi-building hyperscale data center developments, including new construction, campus expansions, and associated infrastructure improvements. The ideal candidate will have experience supporting large-scale mission-critical, industrial, or commercial construction projects and be driven to promote Turner & Townsend's purpose and values.

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 lessons learned document and apply lessons to create training materials.
• 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, 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.

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

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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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