Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor – Data Center Construction

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Provide guidance to clients on procurement strategies.

• Oversee vendor prequalification, proposal and bid evaluations, bid leveling, recommendations, bid interviews, and vendor selection processes.

• Manage project estimation services for construction, fees, direct labor, and various other expenses.

• Evaluate estimates from junior team members and deliver estimates, value engineering suggestions, and risk assessments to clients.

• Meet with vendors to assess, verify, and contest costs.

• Benchmark estimates utilizing data from previous projects.

• Create cost reporting timelines and review as well as present cost reports and forecasts.

• Analyze project budgets and spending forecasts with clients.

• Develop and sustain commercial risk registers.

• Conduct regular meetings with project teams and vendors.

• Oversee cost management, payment application evaluations, contractor entitlements, change orders, payment requisitions, and contractual disputes.

• Manage and track invoicing processes.

• Compare performance against successful commissions.

• Handle final accounting, post-contract audits, and account closures.

• Perform post-contract reviews and generate lessons-learned documents and training manuals.

• Establish project handover protocols.

• Comply with relevant SOX control responsibilities.

⛳️ Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a related field within construction.

• At least 3–5 years of pertinent experience in a cost management role within the construction industry.

• RICS accreditation or progress towards it is advantageous.

• Experience in supporting cost management for medium to large construction projects.

• Strong preference for candidates with construction consultancy experience.

• Solid understanding of technical aspects of the construction industry, including procurement methods, value management, and value engineering.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Proficiency in using or preparing Bid Analysis Sheets, Change Control Forms, Cost Estimating Software, and Take-off Software.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working environment.

• Support for work-life balance.

• Inclusive workplace culture.

• Equal opportunity employment practices.

• Chance to drive positive change.

• Healthy and productive work atmosphere.