Vacancy

Senior Cost Manager and Quantity Surveyor, Construction

Turner and Townsend

Employer

Turner and Townsend

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Contract

Permanent

Level

Senior

Salary

USD 140,000 a year

Closes

Not stated

What the role covers

A confidential client project in Menlo Park, California carries this appointment, and the posting puts the holder at the day to day client interface across the project lifecycle. Change is the centre of the work: estimating and negotiating change orders through construction, reconciling changes with the general contractor and testing the accuracy of its data, written comments on the general contractor's submissions including the executive summary, and contingency management and commitment tracking logs. Cost planning runs from the design phase, with updated plans at design milestones, commercial input into design optioneering and value engineering, and cost estimates developed with the design services team and the general contractor. The holder reviews contractor and subcontractor pricing and leads negotiations for the client on contract prices, manages cost checking and valuation on larger projects, handles post-contract cost variances and change control, produces the monthly cost reports for the client, and sees final accounts negotiated and agreed. Funding data presentations and value engineering sessions with stakeholders are named, as is the compilation of built cost records for benchmarking. The employer asks for a degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying or engineering and five to seven years in a cost management role in construction, with RICS accreditation or progress towards it preferred. Full time. The employer publishes a base salary from 140,000 US dollars; its upper figure is printed without a unit, so it is not repeated here. No closing date is given. Read on 19 August 2026.

How to apply

Applications are made to the employer directly. The link below opens the employer's own posting, which is the only place this vacancy is published and the only place its terms are stated.

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