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About the Role

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Cost Manager to join our Commercial Real Estate team in California, supporting the successful delivery of a diverse portfolio of construction projects. In this role, you will provide cost management services throughout the project lifecycle, helping clients achieve successful project outcomes through effective cost planning, commercial oversight, risk management, and financial control. The ideal candidate will be proactive, client-focused, and driven to deliver excellence while promoting Turner & Townsend's purpose, values, and collaborative culture. Strong communication, analytical, and stakeholder management skills are essential, along with the ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively within multidisciplinary project teams.

Responsibilities

Advise clients on strategies, manage vendor prequalification, assess proposals, bids, and bid leveling documents, make final recommendations to the client, attend and chair bid interviews, and manage the appointment process.
Manage estimating services by developing project estimates, reviewing estimations prepared by junior team members, presenting estimates to clients, presenting value engineering recommendations and risk assessments to clients, meeting with vendors to review, validate, and challenge costs, and reviewing estimates using benchmark data.
Manage cost reporting by establishing reporting schedules, reviewing and presenting cost reports and forecasts, reviewing project budgets and spend forecasts with the client, developing and maintaining a commercial risk register, and hosting periodic meetings with project teams and vendors.
Manage the cost control process by reviewing payment application assessments, liaising with project managers to recommend contractor entitlements, reviewing change order requests from vendors and making recommendations to the client, 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 close-outs.
Hold post-contract reviews with the client to establish a lessons learned document and apply lessons to create a training manual.
Develop procedures governing project handover.
Perform duties using or preparing 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 construction field.
Minimum 3-5 years of relevant experience in a cost management role within the construction industry.
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.

Skills

Cost management
Commercial oversight
Risk management
Financial control
Client-focused
Communication skills
Analytical skills
Stakeholder management
Estimating
Value engineering
Cost reporting
Cost control
Invoicing
Benchmarking
Final accounting
Post-contract audits
Account close-outs
Dispute prevention/management/resolution
Bid Analysis Sheets
Change Control Forms
Cost Estimating Software
Take-off Software

Location

California

Work Type

On-site presence may change depending on client needs

Experience Level

3-5 years

Education Level

Bachelor's degree

Salary/Compensations

$100K-$135 USD

Benefits

Bonuses
Comprehensive benefits package

About the Company

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 together delivering outcomes that improve people’s 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., with our partners holding a significant minority interest.
Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Our inspired people share our vision and mission.
We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
We want our people to succeed both in work and life.
We promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Equal Opportunity

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.