Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Data Center Construction at Turner & Townsend

Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Data Center Construction

Turner & Townsend are looking for an experienced 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.

To be successful in this role you must have great communication skills and be comfortable operating in a client-facing role. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, driven, and able to work independently as well as part of a team. In this significant position, you will be responsible for providing leadership and direction, embedding, and promoting the purpose, values, and vision of Turner & Townsend.

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, managing cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects, 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 celebrating the success of others, displaying excellence in leadership and service delivery on commissions 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.

Qualifications include a bachelor's degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction, minimum 5-7 years of relevant experience working in a cost management role in the construction industry, RICS accredited or working towards it is preferred, experience of leading cost management on medium or large sized construction projects of medium to high complexity, construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred, good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management, and value engineering, and excellent communication skills.