Senior Cost Manager / Senior Quantity Surveyor
Location: Midlands with travel opportunities
Join the Future of Infrastructure with Turner & Townsend.
Are you ready to elevate your career by working on high-impact infrastructure projects that shape the world around us?
At Turner & Townsend, we鈥檙e seeking ambitious Senior Quantity Surveyors / Senior Cost Managers to join our thriving Midlands team. This is your opportunity to play a key role in delivering some of the UK鈥檚 most significant and forward-thinking infrastructure programmes across airports, utilities, transport, and more.
Why Join Us?
- Be Part of Something Big - Work on UK wide, high-profile projects that challenge the norm and redefine what鈥檚 possible in infrastructure.
- Be Recognised- Your contributions won鈥檛 go unnoticed, and we celebrate input, initiative, and achievement.
- Variety & Flexibility - Whether embedded with clients or supporting multiple programmes, no two days are the same.
- Career Development - Access world-class training and mentoring to support your journey toward chartership and beyond.
- Innovate & Lead - Use cutting-edge cost management tools and shape best practices across the sector.
- Accelerate Your Progression - Join a high-performing team where you can stretch yourself, unlock your potential, and truly thrive.
What You鈥檒l Be Doing:
- Manage commercial contracts, procurement, and negotiations in an NEC environment.
- Lead post-contract commercial activities, including payment approvals, cost assessments, and contract changes.
- Support contractors in keeping everything transparent and data-driven.
- Identify cost-saving strategies and optimize contract performance.
- Support key decision-making with data-driven cost management insights.
- The individual will be an integral part of a team that is accountable for the commercial and contractual performance of a project
- To support business objectives of delivering value for money in all circumstances
- To carry out assigned duties efficiently and in accordance with processes and procedures
- Comply with established commercial/procurement/ contractual strategies
- Take personal responsibility for complying with Environmental, Health, Safety, Security and Quality Standards
- Individually or as part of a team operate processes for the selection, appointment and management of construction and engineering contractors
- Procurement including: providing advice on procurement strategy, assembling and seeking agreement to long and short tender lists. Preparing and issuing tender documents. Running a competitive tender process including managing queries from tendering contractors. Managing and contributing to documented tender evaluations.
- Scrutinising and verifying applications for interim payments
- Preparing certificates
- Managing change control in accordance with contracts
- Producing cost reports and cost forecasting
- Assisting Project Managers in preparing Early Warnings, Instructions and Compensation Events
- Attending progress meetings
- Promote commercial awareness throughout project
- Support formal dispute resolution process and contract close out strategy as required