Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Data Center Construction

Turner & Townsend; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to join our San Francisco team, supporting a large-scale, mission-critical program. This hybrid role requires in-office presence three days a week and monthly travel to project sites in Ohio for 2–4 days.

You will lead estimating, cost reporting, and cost control efforts from procurement through final account, engaging vendors and clients to optimize value and risk management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or related field.
• 3–5 years of relevant cost management experience in construction.
• RICS accreditation or working towards it is valuable.
• Experience supporting cost management on medium or large-sized construction projects.
• Experience supporting mission critical, industrial, commercial, advanced technology, manufacturing, healthcare, or large-scale building construction projects is strongly preferred.
• Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as procurement routes, value management, and value engineering.
• Strong communication skills.
• Experience with estimating, cost planning, cost reporting, change management, final accounts, and contractor procurement.

Responsibilities

• Advising client on strategies, managing prequalification of vendors, assessing proposals, bids, and bid levelling documents, making final recommendations to the client, attending bid interviews, and managing appointment process.
• Developing project estimates (construction, fees, direct costs, etc.), reviewing junior team estimates, presenting to client, and providing value engineering recommendations.
• Establishing cost reporting schedules, reviewing cost reports and forecasts, managing budgets and risk registers, and hosting periodic meetings with project team & vendors.
• Reviewing payment applications, liaising with project managers on entitlements, reviewing change orders, and handling disputes to protect client value.
• Managing invoicing processes and benchmarking performance against other commissions.
• Holding post-contract reviews to document lessons and create training material.
• Developing procedures for handover of the project.

Skills

Estimating

Cost reporting

Cost planning

Change management

Final accounts

Contractor procurement

Strong communication

Education

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

RICS accreditation (valuable / working towards it)

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 are looking for a Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to join our San Francisco team and support construction cost services on a large-scale mission critical construction program. This hybrid role requires attendance in the San Francisco office three days per week and monthly travel to project sites in Ohio for approximately 2-4 days per month. The role offers the opportunity to support major new-build construction projects while working on a fast-paced, technically complex program from procurement through final account.

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.
• Experience supporting mission critical, industrial, commercial, advanced technology, manufacturing, healthcare, or large-scale building construction projects is strongly preferred.
• 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.
• Experience with estimating, cost planning, cost reporting, change management, final accounts, and contractor procurement.

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-$140,000 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.

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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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