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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 cost management services across a diverse portfolio of construction projects. Working closely with clients, project teams, contractors, and key stakeholders, you will help manage project budgets, commercial risks, and cost controls throughout the project lifecycle. The ideal candidate will bring strong cost management and quantity surveying experience, excellent communication skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, client-facing environment. This role offers the opportunity to support major capital projects across multiple sectors while contributing to Turner & Townsend's continued growth and success.
Responsibilities
- Advise clients on procurement strategies, manage vendor prequalification processes, assess proposals, bids, and bid leveling documents, make recommendations, lead bid interviews, and manage vendor appointments.
- Manage estimating services throughout the project lifecycle, including developing project estimates, reviewing estimates prepared by team members, presenting estimates, value engineering recommendations, and risk assessments to clients, meeting with vendors to review and validate costs, and utilizing benchmarking data from comparable projects.
- Manage cost reporting by establishing reporting schedules, reviewing and presenting cost reports and forecasts, reviewing project budgets and spend forecasts with clients, maintaining commercial risk registers, and leading periodic meetings with project teams and vendors.
- Manage cost control processes by reviewing payment application assessments, coordinating with project managers regarding contractor entitlements, evaluating change order requests, and supporting the resolution of payment, change, and contractual issues.
- Manage and monitor the invoicing process.
- Benchmark project performance against comparable commissions and industry standards.
- Manage all aspects of final account negotiations, post-contract audits, and project closeout activities.
- Conduct post-contract reviews, document lessons learned, and support the development of best practices.
- Develop project handover procedures and support successful project transitions.
- Perform duties utilizing Bid Analysis Sheets, Change Control Forms, Cost Estimating Software, and Take-off Software.
- Adhere to SOX control responsibilities where applicable.
Requirements
- Minimum 5-7 years of relevant experience in a cost management role within the construction industry.
- Experience leading cost management on medium to large construction projects of moderate to high complexity.
- Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of construction industry technical matters, including procurement routes, value management, and value engineering.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to thrive in a client-facing environment while managing multiple priorities and project stakeholders.
Skills
- Cost management
- Quantity surveying
- Procurement strategies
- Estimating
- Cost reporting
- Cost control
- Invoicing
- Benchmarking
- Final account negotiations
- Post-contract audits
- Project closeout
- Post-contract reviews
- Lessons learned documentation
- Project handover procedures
- Bid Analysis Sheets
- Change Control Forms
- Cost Estimating Software
- Take-off Software
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- On-site presence may change depending on client needs
Experience Level
- 5-7 years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Cost Management, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, or a related construction field.
- RICS accredited or working toward accreditation preferred.
Salary/Compensations
- $120,000-$135,000 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, they transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives.
- Capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
- Majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc.
- Offers a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
- Promotes 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.