Strategic Cost Manager & Quantity Surveyor - Construction

Sccsinternational; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in Phoenix, Arizona is seeking a Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to join our growing construction cost services team. You will support a diverse portfolio of projects, providing estimating, cost reporting, and commercial management across the full lifecycle.

The ideal candidate has a degree in construction management or related field and 3–5 years of experience in cost management or quantity surveying, with a keen eye for value engineering and risk assessment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 3–5 years of experience in a cost management or quantity surveying role within the construction industry.
• RICS accreditation or working toward certification is valuable.
• Experience supporting cost management on medium to large-scale construction projects.
• Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred.
• Good understanding of procurement routes, value management, and value engineering.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Advise clients on strategies, manage prequalification of vendors, assess proposals, bids, and bid levelling documents, make final recommendations to the client, attend and chair bid interviews, and manage the appointment process.
• Manage estimating services for full project lifecycles by developing project estimates (relating to construction, fees, direct work, and other costs), reviewing estimates prepared by junior team members, presenting estimates to clients, providing value engineering recommendations and risk assessments, meeting with vendors to validate and challenge costs, and utilizing benchmark data from similar projects.
• Manage cost reporting by establishing reporting schedules, reviewing and presenting cost reports and forecasts, reviewing project budgets and spend forecasts with the client, developing and maintaining commercial risk registers, and hosting periodic meetings with project teams and vendors.
• Manage cost control processes by reviewing payment applications, liaising with project managers to recommend contractor entitlements, reviewing change orders, and making recommendations to the client while applying dispute prevention and resolution procedures.
• Manage and monitor the invoicing process.

Skills

Strong communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in construction management

RICS accreditation (valuable)

Tools

Cost estimating software

Take-off software

Job description

Turner & Townsend in Phoenix, Arizona is seeking a Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to join our growing construction cost services team. You will support a diverse portfolio of projects, providing estimating, cost reporting, and commercial management across the full lifecycle.

The ideal candidate has a degree in construction management or related field and 3–5 years of experience in cost management or quantity surveying, with a keen eye for value engineering and risk assessment.