Data Center Cost Manager & Quantity Surveyor – On-Site

Turner & Townsend; West Palm Beach (FL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to support a large-scale data center construction project in Indiantown, Florida. This full-time, site-based role requires regular on-site presence to manage cost, provide estimates, and oversee procurement and reporting activities.

The ideal candidate will have 3–5 years in cost management within construction, a relevant bachelor's degree, and experience with bid analysis, value engineering, and SOX controls.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, or related field.
• 3–5 years of relevant cost management experience in construction.
• RICS accreditation or working towards it is valuable.
• Experience on medium to large construction projects.
• Strong knowledge of procurement routes, value management and value engineering.

Responsibilities

• Advising client on strategies, managing prequalification of vendors, assessing proposals, bids, and bid leveling documents, making final recommendations to the client, attending and chairing bid interviews, and managing appointment process.
• Manage estimating services for full project by developing project estimates (construction, fees, direct work and other costs), reviewing estimations by junior team members, presenting estimates to client, presenting value engineering recommendations and risk assessments to client, meeting with vendors to review costs, benchmarking with data from other projects.
• Manage cost reporting by establishing reporting schedule, reviewing and presenting cost reports and forecasts, reviewing project budget and spend forecast with the client, developing and maintaining commercial risk register, and hosting periodic meetings with project team and vendors.
• Manage cost control process by reviewing payment applications, liaising with project managers to recommend contractor entitlements, reviewing change order requests, and applying dispute prevention/management/resolution procedures.
• Manage and monitor invoicing process.
• Benchmark performance against other successful commissions.
• Manage all facets of final accounting process and post-contract audits and closeouts.
• Hold post-contract reviews with the client to establish a lessons learned document and apply lessons to training materials.
• Develop procedures governing handover of project.
• Utilize Bid Analysis Sheets, Change Control Forms, Cost Estimating Software, and Take-off Software.

Skills

Cost management

Quantity surveying

Budgeting

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in construction management

Tools

Bid Analysis Sheets

Change Control Forms

Cost Estimating Software

Take-off Software

Job description

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to support a large-scale data center construction project in Indiantown, Florida. This full-time, site-based role requires regular on-site presence to manage cost, provide estimates, and oversee procurement and reporting activities.

The ideal candidate will have 3–5 years in cost management within construction, a relevant bachelor's degree, and experience with bid analysis, value engineering, and SOX controls.