Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Semiconductor Construction

Turner & Townsend; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to join our team in Boise, Idaho, delivering cost consultancy services for complex capital projects across manufacturing, industrial, and commercial sectors.

The role emphasizes client focus, accuracy in estimating, and rigorous cost control, with opportunities to lead reports, risk assessments, and value engineering; a strong technical foundation and practical consultancy experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Cost Management, Quantity Surveying, or Engineering.
• 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 construction projects is preferred.
• Experience with industrial, manufacturing, advanced technology, R&D, or complex projects is a plus.
• Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred.
• Good knowledge of procurement routes, value management, and value engineering.
• Strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Advise client on strategies, manage vendor prequalification, assess proposals, bids and bid leveling, and attend bid interviews, coordinating the appointment process.
• Develop project estimates (construction, fees, direct costs), review junior team estimates, present to client, and provide value engineering and risk assessments.
• Manage cost reporting: establish schedules, review forecasts, budgets, and spend with client; maintain risk register; host project meetings.
• Oversee cost control: review payment applications, suggest entitlements, assess change orders, and resolve disputes as needed.
• Manage invoicing process and perform final accounting, post‑contract audits, and closeouts.
• Conduct post‑contract reviews to capture lessons learned and contribute to training materials.
• Develop handover procedures and ensure smooth project handovers.
• Utilize Bid Analysis Sheets, Change Control Forms, Cost Estimating Software, and Take‑off Software.

Skills

Strong communication

Cost management knowledge

Procurement & value engineering

Bid analysis & cost control

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Cost Management, Quantity Surveying, or Engineering

Tools

Cost Estimating Software

Take-off Software

Bid Analysis Sheets

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 team and support construction cost services for our clients. This role will support the delivery of cost consultancy services across complex capital projects, including advanced manufacturing, industrial, research and development, and commercial construction programs. The ideal candidate will be driven, client-focused, and promote Turner & Townsend's 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 and large-scale capital projects.
• 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 industrial, manufacturing, advanced technology, research and development, or other complex construction projects is 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.

Additional Information

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

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