Cost Manager​/Quantity Surveyor – Data Center Construction

Job Description

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Cost Manager
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Quantity Surveyor to join our New York City team and support our expanding portfolio of data center clients. This role is critical to our continued growth in the mission‑critical and hyperscale data center sector. The ideal candidate will bring strong commercial acumen, technical awareness of data center delivery, and a proactive approach aligned with Turner & Townsend’s purpose and values.

• Advising client on strategies, managing prequalification of vendors, assessing proposals, bids, and bid levelling documents, making final recommendations to the client, attending and chairing bid interviews, and managing the appointment process.
• Managing estimating services by developing project estimates (construction, fees, direct work and other costs), reviewing estimations prepared by junior team members, presenting estimates and value engineering recommendations and risk assessments to the client, and reviewing estimates using benchmark data collected from other projects.
• Managing cost reporting by establishing a reporting schedule, reviewing and presenting cost reports and forecasts, reviewing the project budget and spend forecast with the client, developing and maintaining a commercial risk register, and hosting periodic meetings with the project team and vendors.
• Managing the cost control process by assessing payment applications, liaising with project managers to recommend contractor entitlements, reviewing requests for change orders from vendors and making recommendations to the client, and using dispute prevention, management and resolution procedures to manage payment requisitions, change orders, and contractual disputes.
• Managing and monitoring invoicing processes.
• Benchmarking performance against other successful commissions.
• Managing all facets of the final accounting process and post‑contract audits and account close‑outs.
• Holding post‑contract reviews with the client to establish a lesson‑learned document and applying lessons to create a training manual.
• Developing procedures governing handover of the project.
• Performing all of the duties above through the use of Bid Analysis Sheets, Change Control Forms, Cost Estimating Software, and Take‑off Software.
• Ensuring SOX control responsibilities are adhered to where applicable.

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or a field related to construction.
• Minimum 3–5 years of relevant experience working in a cost management role in the construction industry, with exposure to data‑center, mission‑critical or highly serviced projects preferred.
• RICS accredited or working towards accreditation is valuable.
• Experience supporting cost management on medium or large‑sized construction projects, ideally including MEP‑intensive environments.
• Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management, and value engineering, with awareness of data center design and delivery considerations (e.g., redundancy, phasing, and scalability).
• Strong communication skills.

The base salary range for this role is $110K–$130K USD. In addition to base salary, employees may be eligible for bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package.

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 information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.