Graduate position - MEP Junior Cost Manager

Turner & Townsend; Milano; On-site; EUR 26,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company delivering cost management and project management expertise across real estate and infrastructure sectors. This graduate role focuses on MEP packages for a major Data Center project in Milan, offering exposure to cost planning, budgeting, and financial reporting from design through handover.

You will gain hands-on experience in cost control, procurement support, and collaboration with design, construction, and client teams, working in

Qualifications

• Recent graduate from an engineering, construction economics, Quantity Surveying or construction-related degree.
• Strong interest in project financial management.
• MEP knowledge and first practical experience in building construction projects.

Responsibilities

• Assist with cost planning, budgeting, and financial reporting for MEP works.
• Review and analyze contractor and supplier quotations.
• Monitor project costs, forecasts, variations, and change orders.
• Support procurement and tendering activities.
• Prepare regular cost reports and track project KPIs.
• Take on increasing responsibility for your own project workstreams and ensure cost management and financial control.

Skills

MS Office & Project

Fluent Italian & English

MEP knowledge

Cost planning & budgeting

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Engineering or construction degree

Tools

Microsoft Project

Cost management software

Job description

Graduate position - MEP Junior Cost Manager

• Full-time

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with more than 22,000 employees across over 60 countries.

By working with our clients across the real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources sectors, we transform projects to deliver outcomes that improve people’s lives. Our collaborative partnership approach enables the delivery of some of the world’s most ambitious projects and programmes, turning challenges into opportunities and complexity into success.

Our expertise spans programme and project management, cost management, asset and commercial management, performance and controls, 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, while our partners retain a significant minority ownership. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with best‑in‑class programme, project, and cost management expertise across global markets.

As part of a project team, you will gain hands‑on experience in cost planning, cost management, and cost control for exciting building construction projects from theindustrial sectors (e.g. Data Centres, Pharma, Manufacturing).

In this role you will work on cost management and commercial control of Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) packages on a major Data Center project in Milan. The role offers exposure to all project phases, from design through construction and handover.

Responsibilities

• Assist with cost planning, budgeting, and financial reporting for MEP works.
• Review and analyze contractor and supplier quotations.
• Monitor project costs, forecasts, variations, and change orders.
• Support procurement and tendering activities.
• Prepare regular cost reports and track project KPIs.
• Take on increasing responsibility for your own project workstreams, helping to ensure effective cost management and financial control for our clients throughout the project lifecycle.
• Collaborate with design, construction, procurement, and client teams.

• Recent graduate from an engineering, construction economics, Quantity Surveying or construction‑related degree.
• Strong interest in project financial management, related tools, and the construction sector as a whole.
• Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbingknowledge.
• First practical experience in building construction projects.
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project, and you are comfortable working with these tools on a daily basis.
• Enjoy tackling complex challenges and working in an international environment.
• Fluentin Italian and English;strong written communication skills, able to produce reports in both languages.
• Good command of Microsoft Office tools.

Our inspired people share our vision and our purpose. We offer a high‑quality working environment, where everyone has the opportunity and the capability to contribute to meaningful change.

We want our teams to thrive both professionally and personally. To achieve this, we promote a healthy, productive, and flexible work environment that supports a strong work‑life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunities employer. We value and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. We actively encourage applications from candidates across all sections of society.

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