Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Real Estate Construction

Turner & Townsend; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Cost Manager and/or Quantity Surveyor to lead cost management as the primary client interface for major corporate real estate programs. The role focuses on delivering value-added cost management services on large-scale office renovations and suburban campus developments.

Success requires excellent communication, client-facing confidence, and the ability to manage complex cost plans in a dynamic project environment.

Qualifications

• Experience as Senior Cost Manager or Quantity Surveyor.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Experience supporting corporate real estate programs or large-scale renovations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary day-to-day client interface and deliver cost-management services.
• Ensure alignment with client objectives and value optimization on projects.
• Support large corporate real estate programs, including office renovations and campus developments.

Skills

Cost management

Quantity surveying

Client liaison

Project management

Job 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 programs as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include program, 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 program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

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 programs as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include program, 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 program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

Turner & Townsend are looking for an experienced Senior Cost Manager and/or Quantity Surveyor to act as the key, day to day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met through the delivery of a value-added cost management service.

This role will support major corporate real estate programs involving large-scale office renovations and suburban campus developments, including high-rise modernization and ground-up research and development facilities.

To be successful in this role you must have great communication skills and be comfortable operating in a client‑facing role.