Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor- Life Sciences Construction

Turnertownsend; New Albany (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to support a major capital construction program in the life sciences sector. The role involves advising on strategies, managing vendor selection, and leading cost estimation and reporting activities across multiple development phases.

The successful candidate will drive cost control, risk assessment, and value engineering while coordinating with project stakeholders to deliver complex projects on time and within budget.

Qualifications

• Experience leading cost management on large construction programmes.
• Ability to develop project estimates covering construction, fees and direct costs.
• Strong cost reporting and risk assessment skills.

Responsibilities

• Advise client on strategies, prequalify vendors, assess proposals and bids, and chair bid interviews.
• Develop project estimates for full lifecycle including costs, review junior team estimates, present to client and provide VE and risk insights.
• Establish cost reporting schedules, review budgets and forecasts, and maintain commercial risk registers.
• Oversee cost control by reviewing payment applications, contractor entitlements, and change orders, and support dispute resolution.
• Monitor invoicing processes and benchmark performance against similar projects.
• Lead final accounting activities and post-contract audits, and document lessons learned.

Skills

Cost estimation

Budget management

Vendor management

Bid analysis

Cost control

Financial reporting

Tools

Bid Analysis Sheets

Change Control Forms

Cost Estimating Software

Take-off Software

Job description

Turner & Townsend are looking for a Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to join our team and support construction cost services for a major capital construction program. This opportunity will involve supporting the continued expansion of a large life sciences manufacturing campus, working closely with project stakeholders to deliver complex projects across multiple phases of development. The ideal candidate will be driven and promote our Turner & Townsend 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 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.
• Support cost management activities across multiple phases of construction, from planning and procurement through commissioning and closeout.
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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

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