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Full-time
2-5

Cost Managers | Senior Cost Managers - Australia wide

12/17/2025

The role involves pre and post-contract quantity surveying duties, including cost estimates, procurement, and contract administration. Additionally, it requires producing monthly post-contract cost reports and interfacing with clients and consultants at all project stages.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

10,001+ employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes. Together with our clients, we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources.
About the Role

Company Description

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 major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, across 247 offices in 62 countries.

Turner & Townsend are an independent professional services company specialising in programme management, project management, cost management and consulting across the property, infrastructure and energy & natural resources sectors.

Due to ongoing delivery success with our clients Australia wide, Turner & Townsend's Cost Management division is recruiting for Cost Managers at various levels in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.

Job Description

  • We work across Retail, Health, Education, Defence, Infrastructure and Natural Resources.
  • 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.
  • Completing 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, 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 stages

Qualifications

  • A recognised Degree Qualification in Quantity Surveying or Construction Management
  • MRICS / AIQS accreditation ideal
  • Relevant work experience, ideally in a consultancy environment
  • Proficient in the use of CostX advantageous
  • 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

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 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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Key Skills
Quantity SurveyingCost ManagementContract AdministrationCost EstimationTenderingProcurementFeasibility StudiesCost PlanningValuationClient InterfaceReport WritingAttention to DetailTeam PlayerAutonomous WorkMRICS AccreditationCostX Proficiency
Categories
ConstructionConsultingManagement & LeadershipEngineeringFinance & Accounting
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