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About the Role
As a Cost Consultant, you will support project delivery across all stages, working closely with clients, consultants, and senior team members. This role is crucial for preparing cost management reports, assisting with feasibility studies, and validating cost changes within the Canadian real estate sector.
Responsibilities
- Prepare Cost Management reports across all real estate asset classes in Canada.
- Assist with feasibility studies, estimates, and cost plans — including presenting final cost plans.
- Validate post‑contract cost changes and support value engineering and life‑cycle costing.
- Input into procurement strategies and drafting procurement reports.
- Support research into construction market conditions and analyze published market data.
- Interface with clients, consultants, and project teams at all stages.
- Support Senior Consultants and Associate Directors in business development and proposal efforts.
- Contribute to Turner & Townsend’s knowledge management systems by sharing insights and lessons learned.
- Ensure compliance with quality standards and participate in ISO audits.
- Assist Commission Managers in ensuring commissions are delivered to quality, on time, and within scope.
Requirements
- Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in cost management, estimating, or quantity surveying.
- A recognized University Degree in Quantity Surveying or related field
- Membership of Relevant Professional Organizations such as the Canadian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (CIQS); The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS); and/or Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE)
- Experience with estimating software (e.g., CostX) is an asset.
- Strong analytical, numerical, and communication skills.
Skills
- Cost Management
- Estimating
- Quantity Surveying
- CostX
- Analytical skills
- Numerical skills
- Communication skills
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 3+ years post-graduate experience
Education Level
- University Degree in Quantity Surveying or related field
Salary/Compensations
- $75,000 - $90,000 per year
Benefits
- Great place to work
- Opportunity and voice to affect change
- Support for success in work and life
- 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., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm.
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.