Senior Cost Manager/Quantity Surveyor

Are you interested in working on some of the world’s most exciting projects, with some of the world’s leading businesses?

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Every day we help our clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects in over 118 offices and 47 countries worldwide.

At Turner & Townsend, we offer a wide variety of benefits to our staff to help them inside or outside of the work. We offer true work life balance, working from home arrangements, team events and much more. 

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Cost Manager to join our Brisbane team, working on the largest real estate portfolio in Australia. We are looking for someone with a great technical skill set but equally strong client management. 

Turner & Townsend will give you the opportunity to work with world class clients on cutting edge projects and to build a successful career with a company that will offer the highest levels of support at every stage.

Some of the key specifications in our Cost Management team include:

• Collaborate and develop good relationships with clients and stakeholders internally and externally.
• Responsible for pre and post-contract quantity surveying duties including preparation of cost estimates, procurement and tendering, contract administration, variation, final account, etc.
• Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plans.
• Tendering and procuring, including managing the pre-qualification stage, producing the tender list, putting the preliminaries together, tender analysis, producing the tender report and compiling the contractual documents.
• Taking personal responsibility for making cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects and in all cases ensuring that timely and accurate cost checking and valuation takes place.
• Producing monthly post contract cost reports and presenting them to the client.
• Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stage.

• A recognised Degree Qualification in Quantity Surveying or Construction Management.
• Experience within the retail sector or large programmes of work.
• MRICS / AIQS accreditation is advantageous.
• Relevant work experience, ideally in a consultancy environment.
• Understanding of CostX or similar measurement programmes.
• Ability to demonstrate attention to detail.
• Team player with the ability to work autonomously.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English with excellent report and bid writing skills.
• Highly motivated and driven with a passion for delivering to your clients and have the ability to work independently.
• Client facing experience and the ability to manage expectations of all project stakeholders.

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

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.

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application.

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

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