Senior Cost Manager – Data Center Construction
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Senior Cost Manager overseeing pre-lease budgets, CRA reviews and cost forecasting for Turner & Townsend’s data center construction projects. Handing validated cost positions to delivery teams.
Responsibilities:
- Provide an independent cost view on data center deals from intake through lease execution
- Produce high-level dollars-per-megawatt budgets and rough-order-of-magnitude estimates
- Join deal calls, take notes and provide cost-review context to the Pre-Lease Senior Program Manager
- Set up and validate CRA exhibits and pre-approve Expense Item Requests
- Review CRA and EIR claims against supporting documentation within three business days
- Review developer preliminary budgets and owner-furnished versus lease-scope splits
- Conduct budget challenge rounds and workshops with developer cost teams
- Issue cost narratives covering caps, cash flow and termination exposure
- Contribute cost grades and entries to the Risk Exposure Log within 24 hours
- Confirm the cost position at lease and hand it over to Delivery
- Review general-contractor procurement and delivery models
- Flag ROM-to-GMP drift and maintain cash-flow look-ahead
- Build portfolio cost-forecast model inputs and hand over open items
- Report weekly CRA status and provide auditable backup to the client’s finance team
- Tag deals to WBS Level 3 benchmarks and $/critical MW entries
- Own global cost benchmarking across the portfolio
- Maintain cost templates and the one-record standard
- Perform QA/QC and cover colleagues’ deals
- Manage approximately six pre-lease deals alongside Pre-Lease Senior Program Managers
- Operate within the pre-lease scope boundary without negotiating or providing legal, commercial or deal-making advice
- Adhere to SOX control responsibilities where applicable
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or a field related to construction
- Minimum 5–7 years of relevant experience in a construction-industry cost management role
- Experience leading cost management on medium or large, medium- to high-complexity construction projects
- Construction consultancy experience strongly preferred
- Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, including procurement routes, value management and value engineering
- Excellent communication skills
- Advanced Excel proficiency
- Power BI or equivalent, cost management and forecasting tools
- Experience with developer budget and cost-report formats
- RICS, AACE or equivalent certification preferred
- RICS accreditation or progress toward it preferred
- Data center and mission-critical construction cost management experience
- Owner-side or consultancy experience
- Ability to work from a regional hub in Northern Virginia, Dallas, San Francisco or Canada, with visits to developer sites as needed
Benefits:
- Healthy, productive and flexible working environment
- Work-life balance support
- Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace
- Confidential handling of information according to EEO guidelines
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