Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Data Center Construction

Turner-; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to lead cost management on a large-scale data center construction program in the United States. You will act as the primary client interface, delivering cost planning, estimating, procurement support, and commercial reporting throughout the project lifecycle.

The role requires collaboration with owners, designers, contractors, and project teams to manage risk, maintain cost certainty from planning through

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in cost planning and estimating for complex construction projects.
• Proven ability to manage procurement, contracts, and commercial reporting.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Estimate and negotiate change orders throughout the construction lifecycle.
• Provide estimate and cost planning services, including final cost plans.
• Review and participate with design teams and contractors on cost estimates.
• Reconcile estimate changes and review contractor pricing for accuracy.
• Coordinate with teams to gather cost information and update estimates.
• Prepare written reviews and commercial commentary on contractor submissions.
• Coordinate all sources of cost information including quotations and benchmarks.
• Inform and support decision-making through cost impact analysis.
• Manage cost checks and carry out valuations, ensuring timely validation.

Skills

Cost planning

Estimating

Procurement

Change management

Contract administration

Commercial reporting

Stakeholder management

Cost validation

Job description

Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Data Center Construction

• Full-time

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 seeking an experienced Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to serve as the key day-to-day client interface on a large-scale mission-critical data center construction program. Supporting a significant capital development within a rapidly expanding mission-critical portfolio, you will deliver comprehensive cost management services throughout the project lifecycle while helping clients make informed commercial decisions, manage project risk, and maintain cost certainty from planning and procurement through construction and closeout.

The successful candidate will have experience supporting complex construction projects from preconstruction through closeout, with expertise in cost planning, estimating, procurement, change management, contract administration, and commercial reporting. The role requires excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with owners, designers, contractors, and project teams in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• estimating and negotiating change orders throughout the construction lifecycle.
• Provide estimate and cost planning services, including producing and presenting final cost plans.
• Review and participate with the design team and contractors in the development of project cost estimates.
• Reconcile estimate changes and review contractor pricing to ensure accuracy and alignment with project requirements.
• Coordinate with project teams, contractors, and stakeholders to gather information and prepare cost estimate updates.
• Prepare written reviews and commercial commentary on contractor submissions.
• Coordinate all sources of cost information, including contractor pricing, supplier quotations, benchmarking data, and consultant estimates.
• Inform and support project decision-making through analysis of cost impacts and commercial considerations.
• Manage cost checks and carry out valuations on projects, ensuring timely and accurate cost validation.