Senior Cost Manager​/Quantity Surveyor - Commercial Construction

Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Commercial Construction

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. 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.

Turner & Townsend are looking for an experienced Senior Cost Manager and/or Quantity Surveyor to act as the key, day-to-day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met through the delivery of a value-added cost management service across a portfolio of complex capital projects. These projects include large-scale campus developments, workplace environments, and technically complex facilities delivered through multi-phase programs, requiring strong commercial oversight and coordination across diverse stakeholder groups.

To be successful in this role you must have strong communication skills and be comfortable operating in a client-facing role. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, driven, and able to work independently as well as part of a team. In this position, you will provide leadership and direction, embedding and promoting the purpose, values, and vision of Turner & Townsend.

Responsibilities include estimating and negotiating change orders throughout the construction lifecycle, providing estimate and cost planning, reviewing and participating with the design services team and general contractor in the development of cost estimates, reconciling changes and assisting the general contractor to ensure that their data is accurate, communicating and meeting with the general contractor, owner, or project manager to gather status information and prepare cost estimate updates, preparing written comments to the general contractor's submissions, including executive summaries for client reporting, coordinating all sources of cost information including subcontractors, suppliers, and design teams to support accurate cost analysis, informing and helping drive engineering and design priorities based on cost impact, working proactively with minimal supervision to resolve scheduling and cost-related issues, managing cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger, complex projects, ensuring timely and accurate reporting, participating effectively in post-contract cost variances and change control processes, managing cost impact, contingency tracking, and commitment tracking logs across multiple concurrent project phases, preparing funding data presentations and coordinating value engineering sessions with stakeholders, developing cost plans and estimates through the design phase, delivering updated cost plans at key milestones, providing commercial input to design optioneering and value engineering exercises, reviewing contractor and subcontractor pricing and leading negotiations on behalf of the client to drive fair and competitive outcomes, performing quantity surveying, cost controls, and change management activities throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively, ensuring that cost auditing and valuation processes are robust and consistently applied, producing monthly cost reports for presentation to the client, ensuring final accounts are negotiated and agreed upon in a timely manner, compiling built cost data for benchmarking and future program planning, identifying, coaching, and mentoring team members to support development and performance, demonstrating excellence in leadership and service delivery aligned with client expectations, managing financial…