Associate Director, Cost Manager – Quantity Surveyor, Data Center Construction

Role Overview

• Serve as the primary client facing cost leader, providing strategic guidance and ensuring delivery excellence.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior client stakeholders, consultants, and delivery partners.
• Prepare and present executive level commercial updates, recommendations, and strategic insights.
• Lead, mentor, and develop junior and mid-level team members, fostering a high-performance, collaborative culture.
• Lead the development and maintenance of detailed cost plans, estimates, and forecasts across design and delivery phases.
• Produce and present monthly cost reports, executive summaries, and financial updates.
• Ensure strong integration of cost, schedule, and scope to support holistic project control and predictability.
• Lead the establishment and implementation of cost governance frameworks and assurance processes.
• Lead procurement strategy development, advising on contracting approaches and commercial positioning.
• Oversee contractor and subcontractor pricing reviews, scope validation, and commercial negotiations.
• Manage and reconcile change orders, claims, post contract variations, and final accounts.
• Provide commercial stewardship throughout the lifecycle, ensuring compliance with internal controls and best practices.
• Lead value engineering initiatives and cost optimization strategies across design and delivery.
• Drive cost risk analysis, scenario planning, contingency management, and sensitivity testing.
• Monitor market trends—including escalation, labor availability, and material pricing—and communicate impacts to stakeholders.
• Ensure adherence to Turner & Townsend Business Management Systems and delivery methodologies.
• Champion benchmarking, data integrity, and continuous improvement of cost management tools and processes.
• Track and manage financial performance across commissions, including margin, forecasting, and resource planning.
• Support business development by identifying cross selling opportunities, contributing to proposals, and expanding market relationships.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field; master’s degree preferred.
• Data Center construction experience is required.
• 8–10+ years of experience in cost management or project controls on large scale capital projects, ideally within mission critical, industrial, or high-tech sectors.
• Proven experience delivering within a construction consultancy environment.
• Strong understanding of MEP systems, data center infrastructure, and large scale campus style developments.
• Advanced expertise in estimating, budgeting, financial reporting, cost control systems, and Earned Value Management (EVM).
• Deep experience with procurement strategies and the commercial management of contractor/vendor contracts.
• RICS accreditation (or progress toward it) highly desirable.
• Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities while working under pressure.
• Proficiency with industry standard cost management and project controls software.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Flexible working arrangements
• Professional development opportunities