Senior Cost Manager/Quantity Surveyor (Construction)

At Cumming Group, you will work on some of the world's most exciting projects in a dynamic environment where your success is measured by the impact you make. We are one of the fastest-growing project and cost management consultancies in the United States, as reflected in our top 10 rankings in ENR. With over 60 offices globally, an extremely diverse project portfolio, and double-digit year-over-year revenue growth, the opportunities to make your mark are limitless!

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide post-contract cost management and quantity surveying support for complex capital projects.
• Review payment applications and validate completed work, stored materials, and supporting documentation.
• Perform quantity takeoffs and field verification to confirm work-in-place and contractor-reported progress.
• Review Schedules of Values for accuracy, scope alignment, and progress measurement.
• Track commitments, expenditures, contingencies, changes, forecasts, and projected final costs.
• Prepare cost reports, cash-flow forecasts, and change logs.
• Review change orders and contractor proposals for scope, quantities, pricing, productivity, markups, and contractual entitlement.
• Evaluate cost impacts from design revisions, field conditions, and scope changes.
• Identify scope gaps, quantity discrepancies, and potential cost exposure.
• Support commercial negotiations, claims reviews, final account settlement, and project closeout.
• Communicate cost risks and commercial issues to clients and project stakeholders.

Knowledge & Skills Required

• Strong knowledge of post-contract quantity surveying and construction cost management.
• Experience reviewing payment applications, Schedules of Values, change orders, and contractor proposals.
• Ability to perform detailed quantity takeoffs and validate work-in-place.
• Experience managing project costs, forecasts, contingencies, and final cost projections.
• Ability to evaluate quantities, unit rates, labor productivity, material pricing, markups, and contractual entitlement.
• Knowledge of lump-sum, cost-reimbursable, design-build, and Guaranteed Maximum Price contracts.
• Experience with mechanical, electrical, process piping, structural, architectural, or process utility scopes.
• Strong analytical, negotiation, communication, and reporting skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and construction cost-management software skills.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of post-contract quantity surveying or construction cost-management experience.
• Experience supporting advanced manufacturing, semiconductor, life sciences, pharmaceutical, automotive, battery, aerospace, or other complex capital projects.
• Experience in an owner’s representative, consultancy, general contractor, or construction management environment.
• Professional certification such as MRICS, CCEA, CCP, or an equivalent credential preferred.

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All other terms and conditions of employment, such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoff, return from layoff, training, education, and social and recreational programs, are administered without regard to the characteristics described above. To this end, Cumming Group complies with all provisions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended, all of the rules, regulations and relevant orders of the Secretary of Labor, and all similar state and local laws.

 

The salary range for this full-time role is $104,600.00-$139,466.68 per year. Ranges are determined based on the position, geography, client and industry experience and level, and represent a good faith effort to provide a fair and equitable salary. This range reflects base salary only, and not the total compensation package. Cumming Group reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted range, depending on a candidate’s experience, skills, and qualifications, including client requirements.

In addition to base salary, Cumming Group offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Medical
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• 401(k)
• 401(k) Matching
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Short and long-term disability
• Employee Assistance Program