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About the Role
AECOM's Program, Cost Consultancy team is seeking a Principal Quantity Surveyor / Senior Cost Manager to join our Sydney team. This role is pivotal in driving strategic growth, delivering exceptional project outcomes, and mentoring our high-performing team.
Responsibilities
- Lead quantity surveying and cost management services for NSW’s and Australia’s most iconic infrastructure projects
- Develop and manage cost planning, estimating, risk assessment, and value engineering strategies
- Provide high-level strategic advice to clients, ensuring optimal commercial outcomes and project success
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams locally and nationally, fostering knowledge sharing and integration
- Mentor and develop junior staff, ensuring technical excellence and team growth
- Drive business development by identifying opportunities, supporting bids, and building client relationships.
Requirements
- Extensive experience as a Principal QS or Senior Cost Manager in a consulting environment, with expertise in Australian standards across major sectors.
- Proven leadership in cost planning, procurement, construction phase cost management, and client advisory services.
- Strong team management and mentoring skills, with a focus on collaboration and innovation.
- Advanced proficiency in CostX and the MS Suite, with a strategic mindset for business growth.
Skills
- Cost planning
- Estimating
- Risk assessment
- Value engineering
- Client advisory
- Team management
- Mentoring
- Collaboration
- Innovation
- CostX
- MS Suite
Location
- Sydney, NSW
- AU
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Principal
- Senior
Education Level
- Relevant tertiary qualifications
- Professional accreditation (AIQS, RICS, or equivalent)
Benefits
- Flexibility for hybrid work options
- Access to industry-leading technology and thinking
- Transformational work with big impact
- Work flexibility
- Wide array of compensation and benefits programs
- Robust global well-being program
About the Company
- AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management.
- On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges.
- Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities.
- AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025.
- We are committed to connecting to Country in our work through meaningful engagement with First Nations peoples and businesses.
Equal Opportunity
- As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
- We foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.