Senior Cost Manager/Quantity Surveyor

**Job Description** **Leland Saylor Associates** is seeking an experienced **Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor** to deliver cost management, cost control, and estimating services on our clients’ projects, working in collaboration with our San Francisco Bay Area–based team. Our work supports primarily U.S.-based clients, and this role applies established U.S. estimating and cost-management practices across the full project lifecycle. This is a hybrid role, with on-site presence at our Walnut Creek office required 3 days a week. To be successful in this role you must have excellent communication skills and be comfortable operating in a client-facing capacity. Candidates must have a Visa or be a US Citizen authorized to work. **Daily Duties** - Provide estimating and cost planning, including producing and presenting the final cost plan. - Collaborate with the design services team, general contractor, and owner in the development and reconciliation of cost estimates. - Reconcile changes and assist the general contractor to ensure that their data is accurate. - Meet with the general contractor and owner’s project manager to gather status information and prepare cost estimate updates. - Prepare written comments on the general contractor’s submissions, including the executive summary. - Estimate and negotiate change orders throughout the construction lifecycle. - Inform and drive design and engineering priorities based on cost impact. - Work proactively with minimal supervision to resolve scheduling and budget issues. - Manage cost checks and carry out progress valuations and pay-application reviews on larger projects. - Manage change control, post-contract cost variances, contingency management, and commitment tracking logs. **Pre-Contract Duties** - Develop cost plans and estimates through the design phase, delivering updated cost plans at each design milestone (schematic, design development, and construction documents). - Prepare detailed conceptual cost estimates and cost studies from schematic or feasibility-level documentation. - Provide commercial input to design option analysis and lead value engineering exercises. - Develop variance summaries between estimates as the design evolves. - Prepare detailed instructions to bidders, trade-specific clarifications, and comprehensive bid packages. - Solicit and evaluate subcontractor bids using bid tally sheets, and lead negotiations on behalf of the client to secure fair, competitive pricing. - Make subcontractor award recommendations to the client/owner and support the finalization of subcontracts with trade partners. - Participate in — and often lead — request-for-proposal (RFP) responses and formal cost/budget presentations to the client. **Post-Contract Duties** - Perform quantity surveying, cost control, and change management activities throughout the project lifecycle. - Ensure that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively. - Produce monthly cost reports for presentation to the client. **Minimum Qualifications** - Experience working in a construction cost management or estimating role. - College and/or post-graduate degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a field related to construction. - 5+ years of full-lifecycle cost management and/or estimating experience on private and public construction projects. - **Professional accreditation a plus.**Saylor values the following credentials: - **AACE International certification** — Certified Cost Professional (CCP) or Certified Estimating Professional (CEP). Preferred, given our primarily U.S.-based client base. - **Chartered Quantity Surveyor** — RICS, CIQS, AIQS recognized as the international equivalent and welcomed from internationally trained candidates. - **ASPE Certified Professional Estimator (CPE)** - Working knowledge of U.S. unit costs and the factors that affect construction cost, with the ability to estimate across all scopes of…