Turner & Townsend
Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor
Turner & Townsend help deliver the outcomes that matter through transformational projects covering the full spectrum of consultancy, project delivery, and post-project operations. With over 22,000 specialists in more than 60 countries, we blend local knowledge with global insight to tackle challenges of any scale. Turner & Townsend are looking for an experienced Senior Cost Manager and/or Quantity Surveyor to act as the key, day to day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met through the delivery of a value-added cost management service. Responsibilities include estimating and negotiating change orders throughout the construction lifecycle, providing estimate and cost planning, reviewing and participating with the design services team and general contractor in the development of cost estimates, reconciling changes and assisting the general contractor to ensure that their data is accurate, communicating or meeting with the general contractor and owner of project manager to gather status information to prepare a cost estimate update, preparing written comments to the general contractor's submissions, including the executive summary, coordinating all sources of cost information for cost discussions and suppliers direct from NPA, subs, quantities from A/Es, informing and driving engineering priorities based on cost impact, working proactively with minimal supervision to resolve scheduling issues, managing cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects, participating effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes, managing cost impact/contingency management and commitment tracking logs, preparing funding data presentations and coordinating VE sessions with stakeholders, developing cost plans and estimates through the design phase, delivering updated cost plans at appropriate design milestones, providing commercial input to design optioneering and input into value engineering exercises, reviewing contractor and subcontractor pricing and leading negotiations on behalf of the client to drive fair contract prices, performing quantity surveying, cost controls, and change management activities throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively, ensuring that cost auditing and valuation work is managed effectively and that a robust process for cost validation is in place, carrying out the production of monthly cost reports for presentation to the client, ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed upon in a timely manner, compiling built cost estimate records for benchmarking purposes, identifying, coaching and mentoring talent to realize their potential and celebrate the success of others, displaying excellence in leadership and service delivery on commissions is in line with the conditions of appointment, financial management - utilizing internal software to track ongoing margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts for each commission and financial reports, implementing and maintaining the use of internal business management systems and company delivery methodologies and tools in the office to ensure consistent delivery of best practice for clients and the company, being a role model that drives a one business culture that achieves great outcomes by striking the right balance for our people, clients, stakeholders, and society, and SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable. The salary range for this full-time role is $105K-$130K 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.
Turner & Townsend help deliver the outcomes that matter through transformational projects covering the full spectrum of consultancy, project delivery, and post-project operations. With over 22,000 specialists in more than 60 countries, we blend local knowledge with global insight to tackle challenges of any scale. Turner & Townsend are looking for an experienced Senior Cost Manager and/or Quantity Surveyor to act as the key, day to day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met through the delivery of a value-added cost management service. Responsibilities include estimating and negotiating change orders throughout the construction lifecycle, providing estimate and cost planning, reviewing and participating with the design services team and general contractor in the development of cost estimates, reconciling changes and assisting the general contractor to ensure that their data is accurate, communicating or meeting with the general contractor and owner of project manager to gather status information to prepare a cost estimate update, preparing written comments to the general contractor's submissions, including the executive summary, coordinating all sources of cost information for cost discussions and suppliers direct from NPA, subs, quantities from A/Es, informing and driving engineering priorities based on cost impact, working proactively with minimal supervision to resolve scheduling issues, managing cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects, participating effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes, managing cost impact/contingency management and commitment tracking logs, preparing funding data presentations and coordinating VE sessions with stakeholders, developing cost plans and estimates through the design phase, delivering updated cost plans at appropriate design milestones, providing commercial input to design optioneering and input into value engineering exercises, reviewing contractor and subcontractor pricing and leading negotiations on behalf of the client to drive fair contract prices, performing quantity surveying, cost controls, and change management activities throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively, ensuring that cost auditing and valuation work is managed effectively and that a robust process for cost validation is in place, carrying out the production of monthly cost reports for presentation to the client, ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed upon in a timely manner, compiling built cost estimate records for benchmarking purposes, identifying, coaching and mentoring talent to realize their potential and celebrate the success of others, displaying excellence in leadership and service delivery on commissions is in line with the conditions of appointment, financial management - utilizing internal software to track ongoing margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts for each commission and financial reports, implementing and maintaining the use of internal business management systems and company delivery methodologies and tools in the office to ensure consistent delivery of best practice for clients and the company, being a role model that drives a one business culture that achieves great outcomes by striking the right balance for our people, clients, stakeholders, and society, and SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable. The salary range for this full-time role is $105K-$130K 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.