Data Center Cost Manager & QS | Large-Scale Builds

Turner-; Peoria (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend, a global professional services firm, seeks a Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to support large-scale data center construction projects in the Phoenix metropolitan area. You will drive cost management and commercial activities, partnering with clients, contractors, and project teams to ensure successful delivery across the project lifecycle.

The role requires a degree in construction or related field and 3–5 years of cost/qs experience, with preference for mission-critical or

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Cost Management, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, or a related construction field.
• Minimum 3–5 years of relevant experience in cost management, quantity surveying, or commercial role within the construction.
• Experience supporting medium to large-scale construction projects, preferably within mission-critical, data center, industrial, commercial, or similar complex construction environments.
• RICS accredited or working toward accreditation is valued.
• Good knowledge of procurement strategies, value management, estimating, and value engineering.
• Strong communication, analytical, and stakeholder management skills.

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.
• 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 closeouts.
• Hold post-contract reviews with the client to establish a lessons learned document and apply findings to future project delivery.
• Develop procedures governing project handover.
• 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 and are to be adhered to where applicable.

Skills

Cost management

Quantity surveying

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Estimator experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management or related field

Job description

Turner & Townsend, a global professional services firm, seeks a Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to support large-scale data center construction projects in the Phoenix metropolitan area. You will drive cost management and commercial activities, partnering with clients, contractors, and project teams to ensure successful delivery across the project lifecycle.

The role requires a degree in construction or related field and 3–5 years of cost/qs experience, with preference for mission-critical or