Overview As a Cost Manager in our Manchester Real Estate team, you will guide clients and their design teams to deliver value on iconic projects across the Northwest. You will work with conservators, architects and engineers to balance quality with commercial efficiency. You’ll manage feasibility, cost planning, procurement, post-contract cost control and final accounts to ensure value for money. This role offers exposure to high-profile projects and a collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment. You’ll contribute to Turner & Townsend’s mission to deliver outcomes that improve lives through effective cost management and project delivery.
Responsibilities - Assisting on feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
- Estimating and cost planning including final cost plan
- Tendering and procuring, including pre-qualification management
- Managing post-contract cost variances and change control processes
- Carrying out cost checks and valuations on large projects with timely reporting
- Producing monthly post-contract cost reports for the client
- Inputting into value engineering
- Negotiating and agreeing final accounts
- Interfacing with client and other consultants at all project stages
Key requirements - Proven track record in cost management/quantity surveying across full project lifecycle
- Ideally professionally qualified (RICS or similar)
- Degree or HNC level qualification
- Outgoing/collaborative approach
- Stakeholder management
- Strong communication with clients and consultants
- Cost management
- Quantity surveying
- Feasibility studies
