Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Life Sciences Construction

Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Life Sciences Construction

Turner & Townsend are looking for an experienced Senior Cost Manager and/or Quantity Surveyor to act as the key, day-to-day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met through the delivery of a value-added cost management service across complex life sciences projects.

This role supports a portfolio of laboratory, R&D, and office developments, including new builds, expansions, and renovations within established biotech and pharmaceutical environments in major innovation hubs.

Responsibilities include estimating and negotiating change orders throughout the construction lifecycle, providing estimate and cost planning, reviewing and participating with design teams and general contractors in developing cost estimates for lab, R&D, and office fit-out projects, reconciling changes and assisting contractors to ensure cost data accuracy, communicating with contractors and owner project managers to gather status updates for cost reporting, preparing written comments on contractor submissions, coordinating all sources of cost information, informing and driving engineering and design decisions based on cost impact, managing cost checks and carrying out valuations on medium to large-scale projects, participating in post-contract cost variance and change control processes, managing cost impact, contingency tracking, and commitment logs, supporting funding data presentations and coordinating value engineering sessions, developing cost plans through design phases, delivering updates at key milestones, providing commercial input into design optioneering and value engineering exercises, reviewing contractor and subcontractor pricing and leading negotiations on behalf of the client, performing quantity surveying, cost controls, and change management activities throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring cost validation, auditing, and valuation processes are robust and maintained, producing monthly cost reports for client presentation, ensuring timely negotiation and agreement of final accounts, compiling as-built cost data for benchmarking across similar laboratory and life sciences developments, supporting delivery across projects involving laboratory build-outs, R&D facility expansions, and campus-style developments, identifying, coaching, and mentoring team members to realize their potential and celebrate success, demonstrating strong leadership and high-quality service delivery aligned with project objectives, managing financial tracking, fee forecasts, and resource planning using internal systems, implementing and maintaining consistent use of internal processes and best practices, acting as a role model contributing to a collaborative, high-performing team culture, and SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Bachelor's degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or related field. Minimum 57 years of relevant experience in construction cost management. Experience supporting laboratory, pharmaceutical, or life sciences construction projects is preferred. RICS accredited or working toward accreditation is preferred. Experience leading cost management on medium to large, complex construction projects. Construction consultancy experience strongly preferred. Strong knowledge of procurement routes, value management, and value engineering. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our clients' needs. The base salary range for this role is $140K-$165K USD. This range reflects the company's good faith estimate of the base salary for this position at the time of the posting. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity. In addition to base salary, employees may be eligible for bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package.