Senior Quantity Surveyor / Cost Manager – Tool Install & Equipment Hookup (Semiconductor)
Location: San Jose, CA Company: Currie & Brown
About the Role
Currie & Brown is seeking an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor / Cost Manager to support a major semiconductor manufacturing expansion and tool‑installation program in San Jose, CA.
This role is centered on equipment hookup, tool installation, and complex construction packages within a high‑tech manufacturing environment. The successful candidate will play a key role in cost management, estimating, commercial governance, forecasting, and subcontractor oversight for fast‑paced, technically demanding scopes of work.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage all construction cost activities from preconstruction through closeout
- Prepare, validate, and maintain estimates, budgets, forecasts, and cost reports for tool‑install and equipment‑hookup scopes
- Review and negotiate contractor proposals, change orders, progress billings, and subcontractor pricing
- Perform detailed quantity takeoffs, benchmarking, and cost analysis
- Support procurement planning, bid evaluations, and contract administration
- Monitor project expenditures, identify cost variances, and recommend mitigation strategies
- Provide commercial insight to project managers, engineering teams, contractors, and client stakeholders
- Support earned value analysis, reporting, and project controls integration
- Participate in project meetings and present commercial recommendations to leadership
- Ensure compliance with project controls standards, governance requirements, and client procedures
Requirements
- Proven experience in quantity surveying, cost management, estimating, or commercial management for large‑scale technical construction projects
- Background supporting semiconductor, cleanroom, pharmaceutical, advanced manufacturing, or mission‑critical environments strongly preferred
- Strong understanding of tool installation, equipment hookup, and high‑tech manufacturing systems
- Demonstrated experience with forecasting, budgeting, change management, and cost reporting
- Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder‑management skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced environment with multiple priorities and complex interfaces
Prefered Experience
- Experience leading change orders through to agreement (including negotiation)
- Responsibility for subcontract packages, including valuations and payments
- Experience working as the sole QS on a project
- Exposure to MEP-heavy or cleanroom / advanced manufacturing environments
- Ownership of project cost reporting and presenting this to the client
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Engineering, or related field preferred
- Professional certifications such as RICS, AACE, PMP, or similar are an advantage