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About the Role
Turner & Townsend seeks a Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to support construction cost services for major corporate real estate programs. This role involves acting as part of an integrated client team, advising on capital projects, and delivering cost and commercial management in complex environments.
Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted advisor to the client, supporting commercial strategy, vendor prequalification, bid evaluation, and bid leveling, and making final recommendations.
- Support contractor procurement processes, including attending and chairing bid interviews and managing appointment activities.
- Manage estimating services across the full project lifecycle, including developing and reviewing detailed estimates (construction, fees, direct works, and associated costs).
- Present estimates, value engineering opportunities, and risk assessments to stakeholders, ensuring alignment with program objectives.
- Engage with designers, contractors, and vendors to validate and challenge costs while ensuring adherence to established standards and procedures.
- Establish and maintain robust cost reporting processes, including forecasting, budget tracking, and variance analysis across active project portfolios.
- Develop and manage commercial risk registers and facilitate regular cost and governance meetings with project teams and stakeholders.
- Oversee cost control processes, including payment applications, change management, and contractor entitlement recommendations.
- Support contract administration and dispute avoidance/resolution in line with program governance requirements.
- Coordinate across multidisciplinary teams (design, engineering, construction) to ensure alignment with approved scopes, schedules, and delivery standards.
- Manage invoicing processes and support financial governance requirements, including audit and compliance controls (e.g., SOX where applicable).
- Benchmark project performance against comparable programs and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
- Lead final account close-out, post-contract reviews, and lessons learned processes to support best practice development.
- Utilize cost management systems, estimating tools, and standardized documentation (e.g., bid analysis, change control) to support delivery consistency.
- Contribute to program-level governance frameworks, including reporting, controls, and process standardization across portfolios of work.
- Adhere to SOX control responsibilities where applicable.
Requirements
- Minimum 3–5+ years of experience in cost management, quantity surveying, or estimating within the construction industry.
- Experience supporting cost management on corporate real estate, commercial fit-out, or large-scale capital projects.
- Proven ability to operate in a client-facing, advisory capacity within a program or portfolio environment.
- Consultancy experience is strongly preferred.
- Working toward or holding RICS (or similar) accreditation is an advantage.
- Strong understanding of procurement strategies, value management, and commercial controls.
- Experience working in structured, highly governed environments with multiple stakeholders and vendors.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Skills
- Cost management
- Quantity surveying
- Estimating
- Commercial strategy
- Vendor prequalification
- Bid evaluation
- Bid leveling
- Contractor procurement
- Value engineering
- Risk assessment
- Cost reporting
- Forecasting
- Budget tracking
- Variance analysis
- Commercial risk registers
- Cost control
- Payment applications
- Change management
- Contract administration
- Dispute resolution
- Cost management systems
- Estimating tools
- Standardized documentation
Location
- On-site presence may change depending on client needs
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3-5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, or a related field.
Salary/Compensations
- $115K-$150K per year
Benefits
- Great place to work
- Opportunity and voice to affect change
- Healthy, productive and flexible working environment
- Respects work-life balance
About the Company
- Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
- Working with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, they transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives.
- Capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
- Majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., working together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering.
Equal Opportunity
- Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
- All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.