Hospitality Cost Manager & Quantity Surveyor

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.

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.

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Cost Manager/Quantity Surveyor to join our growing team in Bakersfield, California. This role will support the delivery of a high-profile hospitality and entertainment development, along with other large-scale capital projects in the region.

The successful candidate will provide comprehensive cost management and quantity surveying services throughout the project lifecycle, helping clients maintain cost certainty while driving value and informed decision-making. You will work closely with project stakeholders, consultants, contractors, and client teams to manage estimating, procurement, cost control, reporting, and commercial risk management activities.

The ideal candidate will have experience supporting hospitality or commercial construction projects and possess strong analytical, financial, and communication skills. You will be comfortable operating in a client-facing environment, managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced setting, and collaborating with diverse project teams throughout design and construction. The successful candidate will be proactive, detail-oriented, and committed to delivering high-quality service while embodying Turner & Townsend's purpose, values, and vision.

Responsibilities:

• Advising client on strategies, managing prequalification of vendors, assessing proposals, bids, and bidlevellingdocuments, making final recommendations tothe client, attending & chairing bid interviews, and managing appointment process.
• Manage estimating services for full project by developing project estimates (relating to construction, fees, direct work and other costs), reviewing estimations prepared by junior team members, presenting estimates to client, presenting value engineering recommendations and risk assessments to client, meeting with vendors to review, validate, and challenge costs, and reviewing estimates by utilizing benchmark data collected from other projects.
• Manage cost reporting by establishing reporting schedule, reviewing & presenting cost reports and forecasts, reviewing project budget & spend forecast withthe client, developing & maintaining commercial risk register, and hosting periodic meetings with project team & vendors.
• Manage cost control process by reviewing payment application assessments prepared by junior team members, liaising with project managers to recommend contractor entitlements, reviewing requests for change orders from vendors & making recommendations toclient, and using dispute prevention/management/resolution procedures to manage payment requisitions, change orders, and contractual disputes.
• Manage & monitor invoicing process.
• Benchmark performance against other successful commissions.
• Manage all facets of the final accounting process and…