Cost Manager / Project Quantity Surveyor - Construction

1 Month ago • All levels • Project Management

Job Summary

Job Description

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Cost Manager for their Manchester Real Estate team to assist clients on iconic projects across the Northwest. The role involves understanding historical construction methods and their relevance to modern contractors, working with conservators, architects, and engineers to ensure cost-effectiveness. The ideal candidate will have a keen interest in construction, knowledge from a Main Contracting or PQS background, and a collaborative approach. Key responsibilities include commission management, feasibility studies, cost planning, tendering, procurement, managing post-contract cost variances, valuations, cost reporting, value engineering, negotiating final accounts, and client interfacing.
Must have:
  • Proven track record in cost management/quantity surveying
  • Experience across full project lifecycle
  • Degree or HNC level qualification
Good to have:
  • Professionally qualified (RICS or similar)
Perks:
  • Great place to work
  • Opportunity and voice to affect change
  • Support for work-life balance
  • Healthy, productive, and flexible working environment
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Inclusive environment
  • Celebrates diversity

Job Details

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.


Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

 

Job Description

Turner & Townsend has an exciting opportunity for a Cost Manager to join our Manchester Real Estate team to help guide our clients and their professional teams on a number of exciting and iconic projects across the Northwest.

You’ll have a real desire and commitment to understand how the builders of the past put together their buildings, and what that means to modern contractors. You’ll be working on a day-to-day basis with leading conservators, architects and engineers to ensure that the client and contractor deliver the best value for money – advising all parties on the best solutions from a qualitative and commercial perspective.

We’re looking for individuals possessing a keen interest in this space with a good knowledge of construction, whether from a Main Contracting or PQS background; who possess an outgoing / collaborative approach.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Commission Management, to include:

  • Assisting on feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
  • Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan
  • Tendering and procuring, including managing the pre-qualification stage
  • Dealing effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes
  • 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
  • Inputting into value engineering
  • Negotiating and agreeing final accounts
  • Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages

Qualifications

Experience and Skills

  • A proven track record of delivering high quality cost management / quantity surveying services across the full project lifecycle
  • Ideally professionally qualified (RICS or similar)
  • Degree or HNC level qualification

Additional Information

Company Values Statement:

We endeavour to create a work environment that reflects the culture of the company, and we encourage every member of our staff to embrace our commitment to be:

Professional, Quality Driven, Goal Orientated, Customer Focused, Continuously Improving, Flexible, Open & Integrated.

Company Vision:

To become the leading global provider of professional services to the natural resources, infrastructure and property markets, rewarded for the value we create.

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.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects: 

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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. 

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review. 

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