MEP Senior Cost Manager/Quantity Surveyor

2 days ago


Canberra n Capital Territory, Australia Turner & Townsend Full time $120,000 - $140,000 per year

Company Description
Are you interested in working on some of the world's most exciting projects, with some of the world's leading businesses?

At Turner & Townsend we're passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Every day we help our clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects in over 118 offices and 47 countries worldwide.

At Turner & Townsend, we offer a wide variety of benefits to our staff to help them inside or outside of the work. We offer true work life balance, working from home arrangements, team events and much more.

Job Description
Due to significant growth and ongoing delivery success with our clients, Turner & Townsend's Cost Management division is recruiting for a
MEP Senior Cost Manager
in Canberra. Working within friendly, professional and highly successful teams and reporting to the relevant regional Director, you will work across various projects including Defence, Health and Commercial.

  • Leading the team to delivery MEP services for the life of the project from feasibility cost planning to agreement of final account.
  • Manage and develop our team to deliver our MEP services.
  • Lead MEP bid opportunities.
  • Working with the Queensland Director to continue to grow our MEP cost management opportunities.
  • Assisting on feasibility studies and writing procurement reports.
  • Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan to internal & external clients.
  • Dealing effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes.

Qualifications

  • Must be in Australia with full working rights.
  • A recognised Degree Qualification in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management or Engineering desired.
  • MRICS / AIQS accreditation or equivalent ideal.
  • Relevant work experience, ideally in a consultancy environment.
  • Great understanding of Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing.
  • Experience in the cost management sector.
  • Proficient in the use of CostX.
  • Ability to demonstrate attention to detail.
  • Team player with the ability to work autonomously.
  • Excellent command of written and spoken English with excellent report and bid writing skills.
  • Highly motivated and driven with a passion for delivering to your clients and have the ability to work independently.
  • Understanding of / or interest in alternative technologies and ecologically sustainable design.

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.
Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV's that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV's will be treated as a direct application.
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.
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