Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Data Center Construction

Turner & Townsend • $90K — $120K *
Indianapolis, IN 46227In-Person
Real Estate & Construction
5 - 7 years of experience
1 month ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a related field.
  • 5-7+ years of relevant experience in a cost management role within the construction industry.
  • Preferred: RICS accreditation or working toward it.
  • Experience leading cost management on large-scale, complex construction projects.
  • Advantageous: expertise in significant site development, infrastructure, and utilities packages.
  • Strong knowledge of construction industry technical matters including procurement and value management.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

  • Estimate and negotiate change orders throughout the construction lifecycle.
  • Provide estimate and cost planning, producing and presenting the final cost plan.
  • Review design services team and general contractor's cost estimates.
  • Reconcile and assist general contractors to ensure data accuracy.
  • Communicate with general contractors and stakeholders to update cost estimates.
  • Prepare written comments on contractor submissions, including executive summaries.
  • Coordinate cost information from all sources for discussions with suppliers and subcontractors.

Benefits

  • Promotes a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment.
  • Supports work-life balance.
  • Provides opportunities for personal and professional development.
  • Encourages a collaborative and high-performing team culture.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to support a large-scale, multi-billion-dollar campus development project in the Indianapolis area.

This is a complex, fast-paced construction environment, requiring strong cost leadership across site development, core and shell construction, infrastructure packages, and multi-phase delivery. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring robust cost control, commercial management, and stakeholder alignment throughout the lifecycle of the project.

Responsibilities:
  • Estimating and negotiating change orders throughout the construction lifecycle.
  • Provide estimate and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
  • Review and participate with the design services team and general contractor in the development of cost estimates.
  • Reconcile changes and assist the general contractor to ensure that their data is accurate.
  • Communicate or meet with the general contractor and owner or project manager to gather status information to prepare a cost estimate update.
  • Prepare written comments to the general contractor's submissions, including the executive summary.
  • Coordinate all sources of cost information for cost discussions and suppliers direct from NPA, subcontractors, and quantities from architects/engineers.
  • Inform and drive engineering priorities based on cost impact.
  • Work proactively with minimal supervision to resolve scheduling issues.
  • Manage cost checks and carry out valuations on large, complex projects involving multiple concurrent workstreams and phases.
  • Participate effectively with post-contract cost variances and the change control processes.
  • Manage cost impact, contingency management, and commitment tracking logs.
  • Prepare funding data presentations and coordinate value engineering sessions with stakeholders.
  • Develop cost plans and estimates through the design phase, delivering updated cost plans at appropriate design milestones.
  • Provide commercial input to design optioneering and value engineering exercises.
  • Review contractor and subcontractor pricing and lead negotiations on behalf of the client to drive fair contract pricing.
  • Perform quantity surveying, cost controls, and change management activities throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Ensure that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively.
  • Ensure that cost auditing and valuation work is delivered effectively with a robust cost validation process in place.
  • Carry out the production of monthly cost reports for presentation to the client.
  • Ensure that final accounts are negotiated and agreed upon in a timely manner.
  • Compile built cost data for benchmarking purposes across large-scale campus developments.
  • Identify, coach, and mentor team members to realize their potential and celebrate success.
  • Display excellence in leadership and service delivery in line with the conditions of appointment.
  • Manage financial performance of commissions, including forecasting, margin tracking, and fee/resource planning utilizing internal systems.
  • Implement and maintain internal business management systems and delivery methodologies to ensure consistent best practice.
  • Act as a role model contributing to a collaborative, high-performing team culture.
  • SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.


Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a related field.
  • Minimum 5-7+ years of relevant experience in a cost management role within the construction industry (more for Lead-level consideration).
  • RICS accredited or working toward accreditation is preferred.
  • Experience leading cost management on large-scale, complex construction projects, ideally involving multi-building or campus-style developments.
  • Experience with significant site development, infrastructure, and utilities packages is highly advantageous.
  • Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred.
  • Strong knowledge of construction industry technical matters, including procurement routes, value management, and value engineering.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.


Additional Information

*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs.*

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We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

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