Preconstruction Cost Lead – Infrastructure Projects

Multicultural Consulting Services (MCS); City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Parental leave 18 weeks

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Multicultural Consulting Services (MCS) is seeking a seasoned cost planning lead to manage preconstruction cost planning for Queensland building projects across healthcare, education, civic and commercial sectors.

The role focuses on preparing tender quantities, tracking pricing trends, developing subcontractor pricing, and supporting variation assessments to ensure alignment with budgets and feasibility pricing.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in construction, engineering, quantity surveying or project/construction management.
• Ten years of construction experience and multidisciplinary estimating capability.
• Advanced financial-management and contemporary estimating-software skills.

Responsibilities

• Prepare tender quantities and cost plans from drawings, briefs and specifications.
• Track pricing, market trends and construction methods and maintain benchmarked work breakdowns.
• Develop supplier and subcontractor pricing and present escalation and cash-flow assessments.
• Peer-review estimates and support major variation assessments.
• Check design development against budgets and contribute as-built cost analysis and feasibility pricing.

Skills

Cost estimation

Tender pricing

Budget management

Risk assessment

Project cost control

Education

Tertiary qualification in construction/engineering or related field

Tools

Estimating software

MS Excel

Job description

Multicultural Consulting Services (MCS) is seeking a seasoned cost planning lead to manage preconstruction cost planning for Queensland building projects across healthcare, education, civic and commercial sectors.

The role focuses on preparing tender quantities, tracking pricing trends, developing subcontractor pricing, and supporting variation assessments to ensure alignment with budgets and feasibility pricing.