Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Life Sciences 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. We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm.

About the role

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to join our team supporting a large-scale life sciences and advanced manufacturing construction program in the Greater Philadelphia area. This client-facing role will deliver cost management services across multiple capital projects, ensuring successful project delivery from planning through closeout.

Responsibilities

• Advise client on strategies, manage prequalification of vendors, assess proposals, bids, and bid levelling documents, make final recommendations, attend and chair bid interviews, and manage the appointment process.
• Manage estimating services by developing project estimates (construction, fees, direct work, and other costs), review estimations prepared by junior team members, present estimates and value engineering recommendations to the client, meet with vendors to validate costs, and utilize 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, liaising with project managers to recommend contractor entitlements, reviewing change order requests, and using dispute prevention/management/resolution procedures.
• 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 closeouts.
• Hold post-contract reviews with the client to establish lessons learned and create training materials.
• Develop procedures governing project handover.
• 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 related field.
• Minimum 3-5 years of relevant experience in a cost management role within the construction industry.
• RICS accreditation or progress toward 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 procurement routes, value management, and value engineering.
• Strong communication skills.

Additional Information

On-site presence may change depending on client needs. We promote a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.