Cost Management / Quantity Surveyor / Commercial Manager Opportunity - Energy & Infrastructure

Turner & Townsend; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in Nottingham is seeking a Cost Management / Quantity Surveyor / Commercial Manager to join our Energy & Infrastructure practice. You will own cost control, performance reporting, and value engineering for major projects.

The role requires NEC3/4 or FIDIC experience, degree or HNC, and a track record in energy or infrastructure programmes. We offer career development across a national team and client-focused opportunities.

Qualifications

• Degree or HNC level qualification is required.
• NEC3/4 or FIDIC experience is preferred.
• Cost / commercial management experience on energy or infrastructure projects.
• Experience of working on major programmes or project portfolios.
• Professional Chartership is preferable.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of performance and quality, applying strong analytical and problem-solving skills while delivering reliable, client-focused outputs.
• Plan and execute work effectively, identifying opportunities to add value and knowing when to act independently or escalate for support.
• Collaborate positively with colleagues and clients, contributing to team discussions, building strong working relationships and maintaining a professional, respectful approach.
• Communicate clearly and constructively, supporting productive ways of working and addressing challenges professionally.
• Administer and manage contracts confidently, ensuring accurate cost monitoring, forecasting, reporting, change management, and control of variances and cashflow.
• Work closely with client and contractor teams to deliver on KPIs, programme performance, cost control and value engineering, ensuring projects remain within governance and best practice.
• Provide sound commercial leadership, driving improvements in forecast accuracy, offering clear commercial advice, and ensuring the timely agreement of final accounts.
• Contribute to internal excellence, including capturing lessons learned, supporting knowledge management and recommending improvements to internal systems and processes.

Skills

Cost / commercial management

Experience on major programmes

Communication

Education

Degree or HNC level qualification

Tools

NEC3/4 experience

FIDIC experience

Job description

Cost Management / Quantity Surveyor / Commercial Manager Opportunity - Energy & Infrastructure

• Full-time
• Department: Energy and natural resources

At Turner & Townsend our award‑winning Controls & Performance team are focused on driving innovation, enhancing our client’s integrated controls capability, improving performance, and delivering better programme outcomes. We have a growing national team of over 600 Controls & Performance professionals. The breadth and scale of our team provides great opportunities to reach back and draw upon a vast pool of experience to enhance your knowledge and career. Our strong capability, discipline communities and varied client base, provides a great opportunity to drive your career, supported by our career pathways.

Turner & Townsend arecurrently recruiting for Professionals within our Natural Resources team to support our expanding New Energy & Natural Resources segment.

We are seeking out candidates to work on iconic commissions for a range of our key clients, all offering exciting career development opportunities.

A successful candidate will have demonstrable experience and ability to do the majority of the following:

• Take ownership of performance and quality, applying strong analytical and problem‑solving skills while delivering reliable, client‑focused outputs.
• Plan and execute work effectively, identifying opportunities to add value and knowing when to act independently or escalation for support.
• Collaborate positively with colleagues and clients, contributing to team discussions, building strong working relationships and maintaining a professional, respectful approach.
• Communicate clearly and constructively, supporting productive ways of working and addressing challenges professionally.
• Administer and manage contracts confidently, ensuring accurate cost monitoring, forecasting, reporting, change management, and control of variances and cashflow.
• Work closely with client and contractor teams to deliver on KPIs, programme performance, cost control and value engineering, ensuring projects remain within governance and best practice.
• Provide sound commercial leadership, driving improvements in forecast accuracy, offering clear commercial advice, and ensuring the timely agreement of final accounts.
• Contribute to internal excellence, including capturing lessons learned, supporting knowledge management and recommending improvements to internal systems and processes.
• • Degree or HNC level qualification
  • NEC3/4 or FIDIC experience
  • Cost / commercial management experience on Energy (nuclear, renewables, transmission & distribution, oil & gas, low carbon) or Infrastructure (water / utilities / rail / roads/ aviation) projects
  • Experience of working on major programmes or project portfolios
  • Professional Chartership (preferable)

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.

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