Graduate Development Programme 2025 (Quantity Surveyor)

Turner & Townsend; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 36,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend seeks a Graduate Cost Manager for their Malaysia Graduate Development Programme. This structured, 24-month program offers rigorous training, mentorship, and the opportunity to work on impactful global projects. Ideal for recent graduates seeking to launch their careers in cost management with a clear pathway to chartered status.

Benefits

Mentorship from industry leaders

Company-paid professional accreditation

Flexible ways of working

Qualifications

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment as part of a committed team.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Good command of written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Assist in cost management commissions including cost estimates and evaluations.
• Estimate and produce cost plans.
• Conduct cost assessments and valuations.

Skills

Communication

Negotiation

Teamwork

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying or Cost Management

Job description

Company Description

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.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

Right around the globe, people are using transportation, buildings, and assets that Graduates at Turner & Townsend have helped to deliver. For more than 75 years, as an independent professional services company, we have been making the difference, transforming performance for a green, inclusive, and productive world. With a growing team of over 10,000 in 50 different countries, we specialise in programme, project and cost management and consulting in the property, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors. It’s our people who set us apart; we love a challenge. We are stronger together, and we recognise and nurture potential to bring out the best in everyone. Join our CEO and hundreds of our employees who started out as Graduates at Turner & Townsend and start making a difference to people’s lives every day

The Malaysia Graduate Development Programme (GDP) is a competency framework which supports development needs, highlights experience gaps, enhances knowledge and gains firsthand experience for graduates.Our Graduates all enjoy:

• A structured, 24-month development program commencing in August 2025

• Carefully curated learning journeys

• A blend of formal learning and practical development

• The opportunity to obtain company-paid professional accreditation

• Mentorship from industry leaders

• Peer to peer coaching

• Flexible ways of working

You will work on some of the most iconic projects in the world for industry leaders, driving a common agenda to meet our client's expectations. You will be driven to create the best possible commercial outcome for your client. We do this by working as one with the wider client team including designers, architects, engineers, specialist advisors, contractors, and specialist suppliers.

Graduate Cost Manager

Your career in cost management will create a foundation for success in the future, learning about the key commercial principles, procurement and buying strategies, commercial mechanisms, and contracting arrangements. You will learn how to intelligently engage with suppliers and deliver success for our clients. You will receive leading, recognised training to become chartered with Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and/or Board of Quantity Surveyors Malaysia (BQSM), plus wider training in behaviours to become a true leader. Responsibilities as follows:

• To assist in cost management commissions: cost estimates, bills of quantities, value engineering, tendering and evaluation, contract knowledge, change orders and final account close-out.

• To estimate and produce cost plans.

• To conduct cost assessments and valuations.

• To prepare cost reports.

• To liaise with the project stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Degree in quantity surveying, cost management/ engineering, construction management or equivalent.
• Knowledge of main cost management concepts, tools and techniques

• Ability to work in a fast paced and high pressure environment as part of a committed team.

• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.

• Good command of written and spoken English.

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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Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property ofTurner & Townsend and arenot subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team,to submit candidates for review.