Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor – Data Center Construction

Turner & Townsend; Goodyear (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to support cost management on a large-scale, mission-critical construction program. You will provide estimating, procurement, cost control, change management, and commercial oversight from preconstruction through project completion in a fast-paced environment.

Ideal candidates hold a Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 3–5 years of cost management experience on complex projects, with strong communication and stakeholder

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a construction-related field.
• 3–5 years of relevant cost management experience.
• Experience on large, complex commercial/industrial projects.
• RICS accreditation is valuable.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Advise on cost strategies, prequalify vendors, review proposals and bids.
• Develop project estimates for construction, fees and direct costs; review junior staff estimates.
• Prepare cost reports and forecasts; manage budgets and risk registers.
• Oversee cost control: assess payment apps, handle change orders, and resolve disputes.
• Monitor invoicing process and ensure timely payments; benchmark performance.
• Conduct post-contract reviews and help produce training materials and handover procedures.

Skills

Cost management

Quantity surveying

Estimating

Budgeting

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering

Tools

Cost Estimating Software

Take-off Software

Job 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.

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 is seeking a Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to support cost management services on a large-scale mission-critical construction program. This role will be involved throughout the project lifecycle, providing estimating, procurement, cost control, change management, and commercial oversight services from preconstruction through project completion in a fast-paced construction environment.

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 a related construction field.
• Minimum 3-5 years of relevant experience working in a cost management role in the construction industry.
• Experience supporting cost management on large, complex commercial, industrial, mission‑critical, or technology‑related construction projects.
• RICS accredited or working towards it is valuable.
• Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management, and value engineering.
• Experience with estimating, cost planning, change management, and project controls throughout the project lifecycle.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Additional Information

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/ and www.heery.com/.

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

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