• Careers Site Advertising End Date
    30 Jun 2025
  • Internal Advertising End Date
    30 Jun 2025
  • All Locations
    United States, Hybrid/Remote
  • Sector
    Data Centres
  • About The Role

  • About this opportunity

    Location: Jackson, Mississippi.
    Expected to travel onsite once a month for a week

    Gleeds are seeking an ambitious Senior Cost Managers and/or Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our team, working on large-scale, high-impact projects, including Data Centers, Mission Critical, Commercial, and Manufacturing facilities for global clients. The ideal candidate will be a good communicator and team player with a sound foundation in construction, in particular relating to cost management activities.

    Responsibilities include but not limited to:

    • Managing prequalification of vendors, assessing proposals, bids, and bid levelling documents, making final recommendations to the client, attending bid interviews, and managing appointment processes
    • Estimating services for full project by developing project estimates (relating to construction, fees, direct work and other costs), presenting estimates to Client, preparing value engineering recommendations and risk assessments, meeting with vendors to review, validate, and challenge costs, and reviewing estimates by utilizing benchmark data collected from other projects
    • Cost reporting by establishing reporting schedule, reviewing & presenting cost reports and forecasts, reviewing project budget & spend forecast, developing & maintaining commercial risk register, and hosting periodic meetings with project team & vendors
    • Reviewing payment application assessments, liaising with project managers to recommend contractor entitlements, reviewing requests for change orders from vendors, and using dispute prevention/management/resolution procedures to manage payment requisitions, change orders, and contractual disputes
    • Manage & monitor invoicing process
    • Final accounting process and post contract audits and account close outs.
    • Establish a lesson learned document for further professional development and creation training material.
    • Perform all the duties above through the use/preparation of Bid Analysis Sheets, Change Control Forms, Cost Estimating Software, and Take-off Software
  • About You

  • Who we’re looking for:

    Experience, Knowledge and Key Skills

    • Minimum 5-10 years of relevant experience working in a cost management role in the construction industry.
    • Experience, working in construction cost management roles such as Estimating, Cost Engineer, Project Engineer, Project Cost Controls etc.
    • Thrives in a client facing role
    • Experience supporting program level cost management for medium to large-scale construction projects.
    • Good knowledge of the construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering.
    • Strong communication skills
    • Prior estimating tools and software experience required

    Qualifications

    • Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or other field related to construction.


  • About Us

  • About us

    A world of opportunity

    Gleeds is a place to be part of something bigger. We take pride in our diverse and supportive culture that empowers you to make a difference while creating connections with brilliant people – colleagues and clients alike. Enjoy doing work that shapes our collective future, while steering your own journey in a trusting environment. Benefit from our rich heritage and global opportunities as you construct a career with purpose.

    With over 75 offices across the globe, you’ll become part of a truly global team that isn’t restricted by borders. We welcome new perspectives and ideas but above all, we believe that quality relationships sit at the heart of good business. We strive to be the people that seek to understand and bring people together. Wherever we are in the world, we’re committed to the success of our people, clients and communities – giving everyone a safer and more sustainable place to live, work and thrive.

    Our values underpin what we stand for and how we work:

    • Professionalism with personality
    • Excellence with humility
    • Innovation with agility

     

    We’re an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications regardless of age, disability, marital status, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, transgender status or gender.

    We recognise the importance of work/life balance and agree flexible working arrangements to suit each individual.

    Gleeds is a Great Place to Work certified employer.

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