Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Life Sciences Construction

Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Life Sciences Construction

Turner & Townsend are looking for an experienced Senior Cost Manager / 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. This opportunity will involve supporting the continued expansion of a large life sciences manufacturing campus, working closely with project stakeholders to deliver complex projects across multiple phases of development.

To be successful in this role, you must have excellent 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. In this significant position, you will be responsible for providing leadership and direction while embedding and promoting the purpose, values, and vision of Turner & Townsend.

Responsibilities include estimating and negotiating change orders throughout the construction lifecycle, providing estimate and cost planning, reviewing and participating with the design services team and general contractor in the development of cost estimates, reconciling changes and assisting the general contractor to ensure that their data is accurate, communicating or meeting with the general contractor and owner or project manager to gather status information to prepare a cost estimate update, preparing written comments to the general contractor's submissions, coordinating all sources of cost information for cost discussions, informing and driving engineering priorities based on cost impact, working proactively with minimal supervision to resolve scheduling issues, managing cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects, participating effectively with post-contract cost variances and the change control processes, managing cost impact, contingency management, and commitment tracking logs, preparing funding data presentations and coordinating VE sessions with stakeholders, developing cost plans and estimates through the design phase, providing commercial input to design optioneering and value engineering exercises, reviewing contractor and subcontractor pricing and leading negotiations on behalf of the client to drive fair contract prices, performing quantity surveying, cost controls, and change management activities throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively, ensuring that cost auditing and valuation work is managed effectively and that a robust process for cost validation is in place, carrying out the production of monthly cost reports for presentation to the client, ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed upon in a timely manner, compiling built cost estimate records for benchmarking purposes, identifying, coaching, and mentoring talent to realize their potential and celebrate the success of others, displaying excellence in leadership and service delivery on commissions in line with the conditions of appointment, financial management utilizing internal software to track ongoing margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts for each commission and financial reports, implementing and maintaining the use of internal Business Management Systems and company delivery methodologies and tools to ensure consistent delivery of best practices for both the client and the company, being a role model that drives a one business culture that achieves great outcomes by striking the right balance for our people, clients, stakeholders, and society, 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 a field related to construction, minimum 5-7 years of relevant experience working in a cost management role in the construction industry, RICS accredited or working towards it is preferred, experience leading cost management on medium or large-sized construction projects of medium to high complexity, experience supporting life sciences, manufacturing, industrial, commercial, or other large capital construction projects is highly desirable, construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred, good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management, and value engineering, excellent communication skills, and experience managing client relationships and coordinating with multidisciplinary project teams.

On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs. Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. 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. 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.