Senior Cost Manager - Data Center Preconstruction

Turner & Townsend; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Cost Manager to lead preconstruction cost management on a major campus development. You will drive cost planning, benchmarking, and design-phase cost management while coordinating with clients, designers, contractors and stakeholders.

The role requires strong commercial acumen, ability to communicate complex cost information to executives, and mentoring junior staff; SOX controls may apply.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (qty surveying, construction management, engineering, or architecture)
• 6+ years in estimating, preconstruction, cost management, or commercial management
• Experience delivering large-scale construction estimates from conceptual to design development
• Experience supporting planning, design, procurement, and preconstruction phases
• Experience in mission-critical/data-center/semiconductor or similar complex projects preferred
• Strong cost planning, benchmarking, escalation analysis, estimate, and contingency management
• Excel proficient with strong analytical and financial modeling
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to executive stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Lead preconstruction and cost planning from concept through design and procurement.
• Develop and present detailed cost plans, estimates, and budgets at milestones.
• Review designs and identify cost drivers, risks, opportunities, and optimizations.
• Support design teams with cost-informed decisions during preconstruction.
• Prepare estimates for conceptual, schematic, design development, and construction docs.
• Perform cost analyses using benchmarking data and market intel.
• Coordinate cost information from architects, engineers, contractors, suppliers, consultants.
• Lead value engineering and design optioneering to maximize value.
• Prepare funding requests, business cases, and executive cost presentations.
• Review contractor budgets, GMPs, procurement packages.
• Analyze market conditions, escalation, labor, and material pricing.
• Maintain cost benchmarks and databases for future planning.
• Manage contingency and risk assessments.
• Assist procurement strategy and contractor selection.
• Review pricing proposals and support client negotiations.
• Deliver cost reports, reconciliations, and executive summaries.
• Partner with stakeholders to keep scope, schedule, and budget aligned.
• Mentor junior cost staff and share knowledge.
• Support Turner & Townsend delivery methodologies and SOX controls.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Financial modeling

Excel proficiency

Communication skills

Client-facing

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or related field

Tools

Excel

Job description

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Cost Manager to lead preconstruction cost management on a major campus development. You will drive cost planning, benchmarking, and design-phase cost management while coordinating with clients, designers, contractors and stakeholders.

The role requires strong commercial acumen, ability to communicate complex cost information to executives, and mentoring junior staff; SOX controls may apply.