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Senior Quantity Surveyor

Job in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Listing for: Turner & Townsend
Full Time position
Listed on 2025-12-29
Job specializations:
  • Construction
    Civil Engineering, Quantity Surveyor, Building & Residential Construction, Procurement / Purchasing
  • Engineering
    Civil Engineering, Quantity Surveyor, Procurement / Purchasing
Job Description & How to Apply Below

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.

Do you want to be part of our successful team supporting the Business Development and Bids function for Turner & Townsend in Canada? We are looking for a Business Generation Coordinator to join our team.

Who are you?

You are either an experienced Quantity Surveyor with 8+ years post-graduate experience or a growing intermediate individual with between 3-8 years of experience looking for the next step or have undertaken a similar role in a similar environment.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities:

  • Performs site physical progress measurement, including verification and validation of quantities.

  • Prepares and submits interim valuations.

  • Manages, evaluates, and certifies variations/change orders.

  • Identifies potential risks and evaluates option for control.

  • Completes internal and external reporting throughout the lifecycle of the project.

  • Works closely with field staff and contractors.

  • Streamlines the progress measurement process on site.

  • Establishes Rules of Credit for each sub-component.

  • Develops progress reporting systems.

  • Administers and co-ordinates all types of construction and development projects, including contracts and sub-contracts, construction progress schedules, cost control systems, and work measurements.

  • Provides advice on construction cost and strategic planning to management and other project stakeholders.

  • Interprets tender documents, specifications, general conditions, and other areas of the contract and forms of contracts.

  • Prepares and submits estimates for construction and development work.

  • Researches, negotiates, and supports dispute resolution activities.

  • Understands and provides input to the engineering and commercial aspects of multiple sub projects.

  • Provides advice on contractual claims and negotiations.

  • Monitors contract compliance against requirements.

  • Qualifications

  • Degree in Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, or Business Administration.

  • PQS (Professional Quantity Surveyor) designation is preferred, or the willingness and ability to obtain the same;
    Active member of CIQS (Canadian Institute of Quantity Surveying) or RICS (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors).

  • Degree in Engineering such as Civil/Mechanical/Electrical Engineering will also be considered.

  • Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in large capital project management.

  • Preferred experience in Database Management.

  • Conversant with the planning and design of equipment/material procurement and construction processes required to deliver major capital projects.

  • Expert knowledge of construction costs and contracts.

  • Strong business and market acumen related to the construction industry.

  • Exceptional communication, negotiation, and leadership skills. Inspires trust in challenging situations, navigating ambiguity adeptly.

  • Additional Information

    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…

    Position Requirements
    10+ Years work experience
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