Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor – Data Center Construction

Turner & Townsend • Columbus, OH

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Turner & Townsend is hiring a Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to support construction cost services for a large-scale data center construction program. The role supports a significant multi-year campus development and a diverse portfolio of construction projects, from early planning through closeout. It is primarily site-based, with regular on-site presence at the project site in Miami County, Ohio, approximately 80 minutes from Cincinnati. On-site presence and requirements may change depending on client needs.

The position supports cost management across multiple construction phases, including planning, procurement, commissioning, and closeout. Responsibilities include managing procurement and estimating activities, preparing and presenting cost reports and forecasts, controlling project costs and changes, managing invoicing, and completing final accounts and post-contract audits. The role also contributes to benchmarking, lessons learned, handover procedures, and applicable SOX controls.

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with more than 22,000 people in over 60 countries. It works across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources, providing programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero, and digital solutions. The company promotes a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance and is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a construction-related field.
• Minimum 3–5 years of relevant experience in a construction-industry cost management role.
• Experience supporting cost management on medium- or large-sized construction projects.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, including procurement routes, value management, and value engineering.
• Strong communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• RICS accreditation or working toward it.
• Experience supporting large-scale campus developments, mission-critical, commercial, industrial, or other major capital construction projects.
• Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Advise the client on procurement strategies; manage vendor prequalification; assess proposals, bids, and bid-levelling documents; make recommendations; chair bid interviews; and manage the appointment process.
• Manage estimating services for the full project, including developing estimates for construction, fees, direct work, and other costs; reviewing junior team members’ estimates; presenting estimates and value engineering recommendations; and presenting risk assessments to the client.
• Meet with vendors to review, validate, and challenge costs, and review estimates using benchmark data from other projects.
• Manage cost reporting by establishing reporting schedules, reviewing and presenting cost reports and forecasts, reviewing budgets and spend forecasts with the client, maintaining a commercial risk register, and hosting periodic meetings with the project team and vendors.
• Manage cost control, including reviewing payment application assessments prepared by junior team members, liaising with project managers on contractor entitlements, reviewing vendor change-order requests, and making recommendations to the client.
• Use dispute prevention, management, and resolution procedures to manage payment requisitions, change orders, and contractual disputes.
• Manage and monitor the invoicing process.
• Benchmark performance against other successful commissions.
• Manage final accounting, post-contract audits, and account closeouts.
• Conduct post-contract reviews with the client, document lessons learned, and apply lessons to create a training manual.
• Develop procedures governing project handover.
• Use and prepare Bid Analysis Sheets, Change Control Forms, cost estimating software, and take-off software.
• Support cost management activities across construction phases, from planning and procurement through commissioning and closeout.
• Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities.

Benefits

• A healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
• An inclusive workplace that celebrates diversity and provides employees an opportunity and voice to affect change.

What This Job Offers

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