Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Construction Management

Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Construction Management

Employer: Turner & Townsend. Company Description 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. Job Description Turner & Townsend is looking for a Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to join our Los Angeles team and support construction cost services across a dynamic portfolio of projects for key clients. The ideal candidate will be driven and promote our Turner & Townsend purposes and values. Responsibilities: - Advise clients on cost and procurement strategies, manage prequalification of vendors, assess proposals, bids, and bid levelling documents, make final recommendations to the client, attend and chair bid interviews, and manage the appointment process. - Manage estimating services across full project lifecycles by developing project estimates (relating to construction, fees, direct work, and other costs), review estimations prepared by junior team members, present estimates to clients, provide value engineering recommendations and risk assessments, meet with vendors to review, validate, and challenge costs, and utilize benchmark data from comparable projects. - Manage cost reporting