Senior Cost Manager​/Quantity Surveyor - Life Sciences Construction

Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Life Sciences Construction

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 program, 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 program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Turner & Townsend are looking for an experienced Senior Cost Manager and/or Quantity Surveyor to act as the key, day-to-day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met through the delivery of a value-added cost management service across complex life sciences projects. This role supports a portfolio of laboratory, R&D, and office developments, including new builds, expansions, and renovations within established biotech and pharmaceutical environments in major innovation hubs.

To be successful in this role you must have great communication skills and be comfortable operating in a client-facing role. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, driven and able to work independently as well as part of a team. Responsibilities include estimating and negotiating change orders throughout the construction lifecycle, providing estimate and cost planning, reviewing and participating with design teams and general contractors in developing cost estimates for lab, R&D, and office fit-out projects, reconciling changes and assisting contractors to ensure cost data accuracy, communicating with contractors and owner project managers to gather status updates for cost reporting, preparing written comments on contractor submissions, coordinating all sources of cost information, informing and driving engineering and design decisions based on cost impact, working proactively with minimal supervision to resolve scheduling and cost issues, managing cost checks and carrying out valuations on medium to large-scale projects, participating in post-contract cost variance and change control processes, managing cost impact, contingency tracking, and commitment logs, supporting funding data presentations and coordinating value engineering sessions, developing cost plans through design phases, delivering updates at key milestones, providing commercial input into design optioneering and value engineering exercises, reviewing contractor and subcontractor pricing and leading negotiations on behalf of the client, performing quantity surveying, cost controls, and change management activities throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring cost validation, auditing, and valuation processes are robust and maintained, producing monthly cost reports for client presentation, ensuring timely negotiation and agreement of final accounts, compiling as-built cost data for benchmarking across similar laboratory and life sciences developments, supporting delivery across projects involving laboratory build-outs, R&D facility expansions, and campus-style developments, identifying, coaching, and mentoring team members to realize their potential and celebrate success, demonstrating strong leadership and high-quality service delivery aligned with project objectives, managing financial tracking, fee forecasts, and resource planning using internal systems, implementing and maintaining consistent use of internal processes and best practices, acting as a role model contributing to a collaborative, high-performing team culture, and SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or related field, minimum 5–7 years of relevant experience in…