Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Data Centre Construction

Overview

Looking for your next big challenge?

Join us on an 80MW hyperscale data centre project as our Senior CSA Cost Manager, a career-defining opportunity at the forefront of complex infrastructure delivery. This is a rare chance to contribute to one of Europe’s most technically demanding builds, where precision, innovation, and bold thinking are essential. If you're ready to lead in a fast-paced, high-impact environment, we want to hear from you.

In this role, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and talented teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. 

The Opportunity

In this role you will: 

• Have experience in Civil, Structural, Architectural estimating, tender evaluations and onsite cost controls
• Optimise project costs, implement value engineering and ensure value for money whilst still achieving the highest standards and quality
• Provide commercial and contract support throughout the project
• Produce cost plans/estimates to provide client detailed budgets
• Ensure initial cost plans are sufficient to carry out the works
• Analyse tenders to ensure value for money and that the works have been procured at the best market rates
• Deliver all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
• Close out commercial, change orders and contract issues
• Perform interim valuations to ensure contractor payments are correct and made in a timely manner utilising EVM.
• Forecast and monitor cash flow/accruals to ensure a positive cash flow is maintained, liaising with the client’s financial team
• Assist in the reparation and agreement of final accounts, including the handling of any claims to ensure the client gets best value from works undertaken
• Produce cost analysis feedback/lessons learned to the client for future works.

We would love to hear from you if you: 

• Have experience in Civil, Structural, Architectural Estimating
• Have a degree or comparable experience
• Have experience in Data-Centres, Battery Manufacturing, Life Science, or Semi Conductor projects
• Have experience in pre- and post-contract cost management on varied projects
• Are currently living or looking to move to Farciennes (you must have the legal right to work already).
• Are fluent in English language both orally and written.
• Thrive on building strong relationships with your team and clients through a shared purpose and sense of openness and fun.

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.

About us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!  

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility 

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you! 

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