Assistant Cost Manager

Turner & Townsend Limited; Singapore; On-site; SGD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in project management seeks a Quantity Surveyor to manage cost planning and procurement for various projects. Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree in Quantity Surveying and have 3-5 years of relevant consulting experience. The role involves significant interaction with clients and preparing detailed cost reports, ensuring the financial success of projects.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of QS consulting experience preferred.
• Excellent technical knowledge across Cost Management duties.
• Team player with strong leadership and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for estimating, measurement, and cost planning activities.
• Manage procurement process and quantity take-offs.
• Produce monthly cost reports and verify progress claims.

Skills

Cost Estimates

Bills of Quantities

Value Engineering

Tendering and Evaluation

Change Orders

Final Account close-out

Leadership

Problem Solving

Negotiation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Quantity Surveying

Tools

Cost X software

Job description

Working in partnership with our clients, we deliver major projects and programmes with skill and precision, by focusing on outcomes and driving high performance.

Delivering innovative solutions and exceptional outcomes across our sectors, we drive the success of our client’s projects and programmes through effective planning, highly skilled teams, and rigorous controls.

Our capabilities include asset management, controls and performance, cost and commercial management, digital, procurement and supply chain, programme advisory, project management and sustainability. Backed by our extensive experience, we focus on outcomes to transform client’s projects and programmes.

With over 133 offices across 47 countries, we are an organisation of over GBP 1.5 billion turnover and 12,000+ talented team members across the world. In 2025, we are combining with CBRE’s Project Management business to create the premier, differentiated programme, project, and cost management capability globally. Through this change, our profile in Asia will scale significantly, comprising a team of over 4000 staff across all major countries in region. The combination of our programme management and project management and commercial management capabilities will provide a unique opportunity to do things for our clients.

Job Description

• Estimating, measurement, bills of quantity production and cost planning activities
• Responsible for the procurement process from all stages in pre-qualification such as quotation enquiry, analysis, selection and contract preparation
• Responsible for the taking off quantity of the tendering project based on tender drawings and documents and sourcing/asking quotation the supplier and sub-contractors where necessary
• Monitoring and verifying monthly work done and progress claim and assist in the monthly projection cash flow
• To produce monthly cost reports
• To be able to take a cost lead role interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages
• To review, analysis and produce variation order assessment, final account productions in post contract stage

Qualifications

• Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor's Degree of Quantity Surveying or equivalent.
• Preferably with 3 - 5 years consultant QS background.
• Candidates with experience in industrial, data centers, commercial, infrastructure, hospital, hospitality& leisure, retail fit out experience are preferred.
• Excellent technical knowledge and experience across the full range of Cost Management duties including: Cost Estimates, Bills of Quantities, Value Engineering, Tendering and Evaluation, Contract Knowledge, Change Orders and Final Account close-out
• Knowledge in Cost X software would beadvantageous
• Team player with excellent leadership and problem solving skills
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to negotiation, influence and persuade others

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