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About the Role
Turner & Townsend is seeking a talented Cost Manager/Quantity Surveyor to join our growing San Francisco team and support the delivery of construction cost management services across a diverse portfolio of projects. This role will support multiple client accounts and provide cost consultancy expertise on commercial real estate, mixed-use developments, public sector facilities, infrastructure improvements, and other large-scale capital programs. The Cost Manager will work closely with clients, project managers, design teams, contractors, and key stakeholders to successfully manage project budgets, commercial risks, and cost controls throughout the project lifecycle. The successful candidate will be driven, client-focused, and committed to delivering exceptional outcomes while promoting Turner & Townsend's purpose, values, and collaborative culture.
Responsibilities
- Advise clients on strategies, manage vendor prequalification, assess proposals, bids, and bid leveling documents, make final recommendations, chair bid interviews, and manage the appointment process.
- Manage estimating services by developing project estimates, reviewing junior team members' estimations, presenting estimates to clients, presenting value engineering recommendations and risk assessments, meeting with vendors to review and challenge costs, and reviewing estimates using benchmark data.
- Manage cost reporting by establishing schedules, reviewing and presenting cost reports and forecasts, reviewing project budgets and spend forecasts with clients, 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, and using dispute 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 clients to establish lessons learned and apply them to create training manuals.
- 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
- Strong cost management and quantity surveying experience.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, client-facing environment.
Skills
- Cost Management
- Quantity Surveying
- Estimating
- Cost Reporting
- Cost Control
- Bid Analysis
- Change Control
- Cost Estimating Software
- Take-off Software
- SOX Controls
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- On-site presence may change depending on client needs
Salary/Compensations
- $120K-$135K 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., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, 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.
- 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.