Cost Manager/Project Quantity Surveyor - Construction

Sccsinternational; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in Manchester is seeking a Cost Manager/Project Quantity Surveyor to join our Real Estate team on iconic projects across the Northwest. You will guide clients and the professional team, ensuring value for money through robust cost management and commercial oversight.

Ideal candidates will have a strong construction background (Main Contracting or PQS), an outgoing, collaborative approach, and professional qualification (RICS or equivalent).

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Negotiating and agreeing final accounts.
• Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages.

Skills

Cost management

Quantity surveying

Client liaison

RICS qualification

Education

Degree or HNC

Job description

Cost Manager/Project Quantity Surveyor - Construction

• Full-time

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.

Turner & Townsend has an exciting opportunityfor a Cost Manager to joinour Manchester Real Estate team to help guide ourclients and their professional teamson a number of exciting and iconicprojects 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 leadingconservators, 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 forindividuals possessing a keen interest in this spacewith a good knowledge of construction, whether from a Main Contracting or PQSbackground; who possessan 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
• Negotiating and agreeing final accounts
• Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages

Experience and Skills

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

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.

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