Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Data Center Construction

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources, we transform challenges into opportunities and deliver outcomes that improve lives. Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset, and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero, and digital solutions.

About the role

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to support a large-scale data center construction project. This is a full-time, site-based position in Indiantown, Florida, approximately 45 minutes from West Palm Beach and 90 minutes from Fort Lauderdale. The ideal candidate will bring strong construction cost management expertise, a collaborative approach, and a commitment to delivering best-in-class cost and commercial management services throughout the project lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Advise client 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 the full project by developing project estimates (construction, fees, direct work, and other costs), review estimations prepared by junior team members, present estimates to the client, present value engineering recommendations and risk assessments, meet with vendors to review, validate, and challenge costs, and review estimates using benchmark data from other projects.
• Manage cost reporting by establishing a reporting schedule, reviewing and presenting cost reports and forecasts, reviewing project budget and spend forecast with the client, developing and maintaining a commercial risk register, and hosting periodic meetings with the project team and vendors.
• Manage the 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 the client, and using dispute prevention/management/resolution procedures to manage payment requisitions, change orders, and contractual disputes.
• Manage and monitor the invoicing process.
• Benchmark performance against other successful commissions.
• Manage all facets of the final accounting process, post-contract audits, and account close-outs.
• Hold post-contract reviews with the client to establish a lessons-learned document and apply lessons to create training manuals.
• Develop procedures governing the handover of the project.
• Perform duties using Bid Analysis Sheets, Change Control Forms, Cost Estimating Software, and Take-off Software.
• Adhere to SOX control responsibilities where applicable.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a field related to construction.
• Minimum 3-5 years of relevant experience working in a cost management role in the construction industry.
• RICS accreditation or working towards it is valuable.
• Experience supporting cost management on medium or large-sized construction projects.
• Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management, and value engineering.
• Strong communication skills.

Benefits

We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We promote a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.