Senior Cost Manager​/Quantity Surveyor - Industrial and Maritime

Position: Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Industrial and Maritime
Company Description
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions. We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Cost Manager and/or Quantity Surveyor to act as the key day-to-day client interface, ensuring client objectives are achieved through the delivery of value-added cost management services across industrial and maritime construction projects. The successful candidate will possess a strong cost estimating background and demonstrate expertise across the full cost management lifecycle, from conceptual estimating and cost planning through procurement, construction delivery, change management, commercial closeout, and final account settlement.

This individual will play a critical role in providing accurate cost advice, validating contractor pricing, managing commercial risks, and supporting informed project decision-making throughout all phases of project delivery. To be successful in this role, you must have excellent communication skills and be comfortable operating in a client-facing environment. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, driven, and capable of working independently as well as collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams.

In this significant position, you will be responsible for providing leadership and direction, embedding and promoting the purpose, values, and vision of Turner & Townsend. Responsibilities:

Estimating and negotiating change orders throughout the construction lifecycle.  Provide estimate and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.  Review and participate with the design services team and general contractor in the development of cost estimates.  Reconcile changes and assist the general contractor to ensure that their data is accurate.  Communicate or meet with the general contractor and owner of project manager to gather status information to prepare a cost estimate update. 

Prepare written comments to the general contractor’s submissions, including the executive summary.  Coordinate all sources of cost information for cost discussions and suppliers direct from NPA, subs, quantities from A/Es.  Inform and drive engineering priorities based on cost impact.  Work proactively with minimal supervision to resolve scheduling issues.  Manage cost checks and carry out valuations on larger projects. Complete timely, accurate cost checking and valuation processes. 

Participate effectively with post-contract cost variances and the change of control processes.  Manage Cost impact / contingency management and commitment tracking logs.  Prepare funding data presentations and coordinate VE sessions with stakeholders.  Developing cost plans and estimates through the design phase, delivering updated cost plans at appropriate design milestones.  Providing commercial input to design optioneering and input into value engineering…