Turner Townsend Inc.
Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Workplace Projects
Palo Alto, California, United States · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
- Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people's lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world's most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Responsibilities
- Review and participate with the design services team and general contractor in the development of cost estimates.
- Inform and drive project priorities based on cost impact.
- Manage cost checks and carry out valuations on larger projects. Complete timely, accurate cost checking and valuation processes.
- Manage cost impact, contingency management, and commitment tracking logs.
- 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, forecasting, budgeting, and change management activities throughout the project lifecycle.
- Manage and oversee cost management activities across multiple concurrent construction projects.
- Review, validate, and monitor project budgets, forecasts, commitments, and expenditures.
Nice to have
- Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
- Working with our 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.
- Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
- This role is responsible for budgeting, forecasting, cost controls, change management, and financial reporting throughout the project lifecycle.
- The successful candidate will work closely with project teams, stakeholders, and external cost consultants to ensure accurate cost management and effective project delivery.
- Experience supporting tenant improvement, renovation, decommissioning, laboratory, infrastructure, or similar capital projects is preferred.
Compensation
- $140k-$160k
Company info
- Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/ and www.heery.com/ All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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