Turner & Townsend is seeking a Project Director level Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to lead cost management for a large-scale, mission-critical data center program in Seattle, WA. This senior leadership role involves overseeing end-to-end cost management, guiding teams, ensuring governance, and serving as a key client-facing advisor across multiple project phases.
What You'll Do
- Provide executive-level leadership for cost management across all phases of a major data center program, ensuring governance, compliance, and alignment with organizational standards
- Define and implement commercial strategy, cost frameworks, and reporting structures for multi-billion-dollar budgets, including early-stage budgeting, detailed cost planning, procurement strategy, and risk mitigation
- Act as the senior point of contact for stakeholders, maintaining strong communication and transparency throughout all project stages
- Oversee full lifecycle cost management activities, including quantity surveying, cost controls, change management, and contingency tracking across multiple packages and phases
- Lead executive-level reporting, presenting cost performance, forecasts, and risk assessments to leadership teams and influencing strategic decisions
- Drive value engineering and design optimization initiatives to identify cost-saving opportunities without compromising performance or quality
- Mentor and develop senior cost management leaders, ensuring capability growth, succession planning, and staff performance reviews
- Contribute to the enhancement of internal cost management tools, templates, and processes for continuous improvement and best practice implementation
- Manage financial performance, including margin tracking, fee/resource forecasts, and compliance with internal Business Management Systems (BMS)
- Support preconstruction activities, feasibility studies, and early-stage cost modeling for future phases
- Build strategic relationships with clients, stakeholders, contractors, and vendors, acting as a trusted advisor and identifying opportunities for business growth and cross-selling
- SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience in senior-level cost management or quantity surveying roles
- Demonstrated ability to provide executive-level leadership across all phases of large-scale construction programs
- Strong commercial acumen with experience in developing and implementing cost frameworks and reporting structures for multi-billion-dollar budgets
- Experience in full lifecycle cost management including quantity surveying, cost controls, change management, and contingency tracking
- Proven track record in executive-level reporting and presenting cost performance, forecasts, and risk assessments to leadership teams
- Ability to drive value engineering and design optimization initiatives
- Experience mentoring and developing senior cost management professionals
- Strong financial management skills including margin tracking, fee/resource forecasting, and compliance with internal Business Management Systems (BMS)
- Experience supporting preconstruction activities, feasibility studies, and early-stage cost modeling
- Established ability to build strategic relationships with clients, stakeholders, contractors, and vendors
- Ability to act as a trusted advisor and identify business growth and cross-selling opportunities
- Adherence to SOX control responsibilities where applicable
Benefits & Compensation
- Hybrid work arrangement with three days per week in the Seattle office and remote flexibility for the remaining days
Work Mode
Hybrid role based in Seattle, WA, requiring three days per week in the office with remote flexibility for the remaining days.
