Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Data Center Construction

Turner & Townsend; Wide Ruins (AZ); Vor Ort; USD 90.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Cost Manager/Quantity Surveyor to join our team and support construction cost services for clients. The ideal candidate will be driven and promote our purposes and values.

Responsibilities include advising on procurement, developing estimates, presenting to clients, and managing cost reporting, control, and post-contract activities. On-site work may be required based on client needs.

Qualifikationen

• 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 is valuable.
• Experience supporting cost management on medium or large projects.
• Construction consultancy experience is preferred.
• Knowledge of procurement routes, value management and value engineering.
• Strong communication skills.

Aufgaben

• Advise on strategies, prequalify vendors, assess proposals and bid levelling documents.
• Develop project estimates for construction, fees and direct costs; review junior staff estimates.
• Present estimates to clients and provide value engineering and risk assessments.
• Review cost reports and forecasts; monitor project budgets and spend.
• Coordinate cost control by reviewing change orders and contractor entitlements.
• Oversee invoicing processes and commercial risk registers.
• Benchmark performance against successful commissions.
• Conduct post-contract reviews and lessons learned documentation.
• Prepare handover procedures and training materials.

Kenntnisse

Cost management

Quantity surveying

Bid analysis

Vendor management

Communication skills

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in construction management or related field

Tools

Cost estimating software

Take-off software

Jobbeschreibung

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.

Job Description

Turner & Townsend is looking for a Cost Manager/Quantity Surveyor to join our team and support construction cost services for our clients. The ideal candidate will be driven and promote our Turner & Townsend purposes and values.

Responsibilities

• Advising client on strategies, managing prequalification of vendors, assessing proposals, bids, and bidlevellingdocuments, making final recommendations tothe 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 withthe 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 toclient, 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 ofproject.
• Perform all the duties above through the use/preparation of Bid Analysis Sheets, Change Control Forms, Cost Estimating Software, and Take-off Software.

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.
• 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.

Additional Information

*On site requirements might change based on client needs*

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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.

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. Any speculative or unsolicited CV's will be treated as a direct application.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not 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.