Quantity Surveyor - Cost Controller

The Quantity Surveyor / Cost Controller provides cost governance and financial control across multiple large-scale construction projects throughout the United States. This role partners closely with Project Management and field leadership to ensure accurate cost tracking, disciplined change management, and timely reporting that protects project margins and contractual outcomes.

- - Key Responsibilities

- Own and control total project expenditures, ensuring alignment with approved budgets and cost forecasts

- Establish, maintain, and govern quantity tracking and installed progress measurement methodologies, including rules of credit, installed quantities, and percent complete

- Lead the change management process, ensuring scope changes are accurately documented, evaluated, approved, and incorporated into project cost plans and schedules

- Develop, monitor, and analyze project schedules in coordination with Project Management to track progress, identify variances, and mitigate cost and schedule risk

- Represent the cost control function in project meetings with internal stakeholders and external clients

- Prepare and present monthly cost reports, forecasts, and variance analyses for management review, ensuring proactive cost control and budget adherence

- Validate installed quantities and cost data supporting client invoicing and commercial submissions

- Provide cost control, planning, and financial insight to internal management to support informed project and commercial decision-making

- Experience & Qualifications

- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in project cost control, quantity surveying, or construction cost management

- Strong expertise in quantity measurement, progress tracking, and cost forecasting

- Proven ability to interpret pricing documents, contracts, and cost structures related to installed quantities

- Advanced Excel skills; experience with cost control systems and field reporting platforms

- Background in large-scale construction or industrial project environments

- Technically strong in project cost planning, scheduling, reporting, and variance analysis

- Comfortable working on-site and interfacing with field leadership, project managers, and clients

- Strong communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills

- Ability to operate effectively under tight deadlines and commercial pressure