Associate Director - Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Data Center Construction

Turner & Townsend • St. Louis, MO

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to support a large-scale, multi-phase hyperscale data center program near St. Louis, Missouri. The role serves as a key day-to-day client interface, leading high-value cost management services across a complex development. It is responsible for cost planning, procurement strategy, change management, and commercial governance, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and rigor across multiple workstreams and packages.

The successful candidate will lead and develop a cost management team, oversee commercial reporting and cost controls, advise on procurement and contracting strategies, and support project and business management. The role also involves client relationship development, business generation, proposals, financial management, and internal quality and business-management processes. The position requires onsite work three days per week in the St. Louis area; onsite requirements may change based on client needs.

Requirements

• Ability to work onsite three days per week in the St. Louis, Missouri area.
• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a construction-related field.
• At least 8 years of relevant cost management experience in the construction industry.
• Subject-matter expertise in quantity surveying.
• RICS certification or equivalent accreditation.
• Excellent presentation, verbal, written, organizational, and communication skills.
• Strong leadership, client-facing, proactive, and collaborative capabilities.

Nice To Haves

• Graduate degree in quantity surveying, cost management, construction management, or engineering.
• Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cost management team and ensure delivery of its accountabilities.
• Lead client, stakeholder, and consultant interactions throughout all project stages, maintaining excellent communication.
• Perform quantity surveying, cost control, and change management throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate Turner & Townsend’s role in the construction process and communicate with general contractors, owner’s representatives, and external stakeholders.
• Coordinate or assist with strategic and operational management of cost management and project controls services across sectors.
• Serve as the first point of contact for reporting a project’s overall commercial status.
• Promote Turner & Townsend best practices and identify improvements to cost management procedures, processes, templates, and products.
• Conduct staff performance reviews, set team strategy, and coach and mentor staff.
• Deliver commissions in line with appointment conditions and demonstrate leadership and service excellence.
• Use internal software to track commission margins, monthly fee and resource forecasts, and financial reports.
• Develop priority plans, risk mitigation, KPI measurements, appraisal documents, management controls, and critical success factors aligned with company goals.
• Implement and maintain business management systems, delivery methodologies, and tools to support consistent best-practice delivery.
• Conduct internal business management system audits and coordinate and represent the office during external certification audits.
• Develop market knowledge, act as a brand ambassador, and build a pipeline of opportunities.
• Advise clients on contracting and procurement strategy, capital planning, and program-level reporting.
• Build strong relationships with clients and cross-functional team members.
• Participate in meetings with business unit vice presidents, directors, and staff; prepare and deliver presentations.
• Provide weekly updates on projects, initiatives, and staffing, and propose solutions for management approval.
• Identify cross-selling and business-generation opportunities and contribute to proposals and RFP responses.
• Capture and enter commission information and lessons learned into internal knowledge-management databases.
• Attend relevant networking events.
• Model a one-business culture that balances outcomes for people, clients, stakeholders, and society.
• Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities.

Benefits

• A flexible working environment that supports work-life balance.
• An inclusive workplace that celebrates diversity and encourages applications from all sectors of the community.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director