Associate Director - Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor – Data Center Construction

About the role

The Associate Director - Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor will be responsible for end-to-end service delivery, acting as a key client interface and ensuring client objectives are met through the delivery of a value-added service.

Responsibilities

• Strong leadership skills; experience leading a Cost Management team, ensuring they deliver on all accountabilities.
• Taking a lead role in interfacing with the client, stakeholders and other consultants, at all project stages.
• Identifying opportunities to improve cost management procedures, templates and products.
• Knowledge management – Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each commission is inputted into internal databases and shared.
• Process improvement – Identifying and acting upon ways to improve internal systems and processes.
• Taking responsibility for developing new business opportunities with existing and new Turner & Townsend clients.
• Identifying and acting upon cross-selling opportunities.
• Lead proposals for new work or variations for existing projects.
• Attending relevant networking events and other promotional opportunities.
• Staff management – Inputting into the formal management of staff and recruitment interviews.
• Undertake Staff Performance reviews.
• Financial management – Utilizing the tools provided to keep track of the ongoing margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts for each commission.
• Review and participate with the design services team and general contractor, in the development of the cost estimates.
• Reconcile changes that occur over the planning phase and assist the general contractor to ensure that their data is accurate.
• Quality Control – Ensuring compliance with quality standards and participation in ISO audits.
• Communicate or meet with general contractor and owner project manager to gather status information to prepare a cost estimate update.
• Prepare written comments to the general contractor’s submissions, including the executive summary. Coordinate all sources of cost information for cost discussions and suppliers direct from NPA, subs, quantities from A/Es,
• Inform and drive engineering priorities based on cost impact.
• Provide estimate and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
• Work proactively with minimal supervision to resolve scheduling issues.
• Manage cost checks and carry out valuations on larger projects. Complete timely, accurate cost checking and valuation processes.
• Participate effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes.
• Manage Cost impact / contingency management and commitment tracking logs.
• Prepare funding data presentations and coordinate VE sessions with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• SME in Quantity Surveying.
• Experience in the construction industry with a good understanding of the role of a cost consultant.
• Effectively able to pivot between a delivery and management role.
• Graduate degree in quantity surveying, cost management, construction management, or engineering.
• RICS or equivalent accreditation.
• Proficiency with Microsoft suite of applications.
• Strong analytical skills and, advanced proficiency using spreadsheets.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
• Drive to be proactive and self-motivated.
• The tenacity and ambition to inject value and create solutions.
• Able to develop good working relationships with project teams.
• Good organization skills, ability to multi-task, prioritize, and be a team player.

Additional Information

The salary range for this full-time role is $160K-$185K per year. Ranges are determined by role and level and represent a good faith effort to provide a fair and equitable salary. This range is a reflection of base salary only, not of a total compensation package. Please note Turner & Townsend reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted range, depending on candidate’s experience and qualifications.

*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs.

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