Cost Manager & Quantity Surveyor – Higher Ed

Turner & Townsend; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to support the delivery of capital construction projects within a dynamic higher education environment in Los Angeles. This role provides comprehensive cost management across a diverse portfolio including academic facilities and campus infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will have 3–5 years in cost management, a related degree, and experience partnering with campus stakeholders, project managers, consultants, and

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 accreditation is valuable or working towards it.
• Experience supporting cost management on medium or large sized construction projects.
• Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred.
• Good knowledge of procurement routes, value management, and value engineering.

Responsibilities

• Advising client on strategies, managing prequalification of vendors, assessing proposals, bids, and bid levelling documents, making final recommendations to the client, attending and chairing bid interviews, and managing appointment process.
• Developing project estimates (construction, fees, direct work and other costs), reviewing estimates by junior team members, presenting estimates to client, providing value engineering recommendations and risk assessments, meeting with vendors to review costs, and benchmarking against other projects.
• Establishing cost reporting schedules, reviewing and presenting cost reports and forecasts, managing budget and spend forecast with the client, maintaining risk registers, and hosting meetings with project team and vendors.
• Reviewing payment applications, liaising with project managers to recommend entitlements, reviewing change orders, and using dispute prevention/resolution procedures to manage payments.
• Managing the invoicing process.
• Benchmarking performance against other commissions.
• Managing final accounting, post-contract audits and closeouts.
• Holding post-contract reviews to create lessons learned and training materials.
• Developing handover procedures for projects.
• Using Bid Analysis Sheets, Change Control Forms, Cost Estimating Software, and Take-off Software.
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role.

Skills

Cost management experience

Construction industry knowledge

Procurement knowledge

Value engineering knowledge

Client collaboration

Education

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

Tools

Bid Analysis Sheets

Cost Estimating Software

Take-off Software

Job description

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to support the delivery of capital construction projects within a dynamic higher education environment in Los Angeles. This role provides comprehensive cost management across a diverse portfolio including academic facilities and campus infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will have 3–5 years in cost management, a related degree, and experience partnering with campus stakeholders, project managers, consultants, and