Senior Cost Manager & Quantity Surveyor - Advanced Facilities

Turner & Townsend; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in Costa Mesa, CA, is seeking a Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to support advanced facilities construction costs for complex projects. The role focuses on estimating, cost control, and value engineering in highly technical environments.

The ideal candidate has 3–5 years in cost management, a relevant degree, and, ideally, an active RICS accreditation. On-site work with a competitive base salary and bonus potential is offered.

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, ideally within complex or technically advanced facilities.
• Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management, and value engineering.

Responsibilities

• Advising client on strategies, managing prequalification of vendors, assessing proposals, bids, and bid levelling documents, making final recommendations to the client, attending and chairing bid interviews, and managing appointment process, ensuring a robust and reliable supply chain.
• 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 costs, and reviewing estimates using benchmark data.
• Manage cost reporting by establishing reporting schedule, reviewing 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 application assessments prepared by junior team members, liaising with project managers to recommend contractor entitlements, reviewing requests for change orders from vendors and making recommendations to client, and using dispute prevention/management/resolution procedures to manage payment requisitions, change orders, and contractual disputes.
• Manage and 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.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction

Job description

Turner & Townsend in Costa Mesa, CA, is seeking a Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to support advanced facilities construction costs for complex projects. The role focuses on estimating, cost control, and value engineering in highly technical environments.

The ideal candidate has 3–5 years in cost management, a relevant degree, and, ideally, an active RICS accreditation. On-site work with a competitive base salary and bonus potential is offered.