Quantity Surveyor
About this role
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
If you’re a commercially sharp Quantity Surveyor/Cost Manager who wants real ownership, client exposure, and a clear path to senior leadership — we want to hear from you.
We have opportunities across our rapidly growing Infrastructure business for Quantity Surveyors and Cost Managers with a proven track record on major infrastructure projects. We encourage applications from experienced professionals at all levels, up to Director.
What You’ll Be Doing
You’ll take real commercial responsibility from day one, working across high profile infrastructure projects and programmes:
- Leading cost management and contract administration across major infrastructure commissions
- Driving forecast accuracy, budget control, and cost reporting through to final account
- Managing NEC contracts (Option C experience highly valued) with confidence and precision
- Proactively identifying and managing commercial risk, change, and cash flow
- Building trusted relationships with clients, contractors, and stakeholders at all levels
- Supporting and mentoring junior team members as your career progresses
Qualifications
- Quantity Surveying experience, ideally in infrastructure, civil engineering, or major programmes
- Strong NEC contract knowledge (Option C preferred)
- Ideally degree qualified in a relevant subject
- Commercially astute with excellent communication skills — you can hold a room with a client as confidently as you can interrogate a cost report
- MRICS qualified or working towards it (supported by us)
- Someone who takes initiative, not just instructions
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.
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Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:
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 of Turner & Townsend and are not 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
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:
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 of Turner & Townsend and are not 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.
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