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Cost Manager

CompanyTurner & Townsend
LocationGold Coast
Work ModeOn Site
PostedAugust 27, 2026
About The Company
We're Turner & Townsend – a global programme manager. For more than 80 years, we’ve helped deliver the projects that define how people live, work and connect. From shaping resilient cities to advancing clean energy, we approach every challenge with the same goal – to make a meaningful and lasting impact. Partnering closely with our clients, we plan, manage and deliver complex projects and portfolios. Our teams bring the leadership, commercial expertise and independent advice that unlocks performance and protects investment. From the metro systems moving millions of people to the data centres powering the digital economy, we bring ambitious plans to life and deliver outcomes that matter.
About the 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

This role will be working on delivering retail projects in Gold Coast office for our Major Retail client in Australia. The project will provide a variety of deliverables from concept design cost planning to agreement of final accounts. 

The role is an end-to-end cost management role within cost planning and delivery team providing accurate and efficient cost management resource capability to the team. The job scope are:

  • Pre contract cost planning services during design stages of projects
  • Post contract progress claim and variation assessments
  • Engage with the local property market to gain market knowledge for use in the delivery of our services
  • Assist with the commission management of our commissions to assist in the successful delivery of our services
  • Integrate with full cost management and project management teams in Queensland and support when required
  • Work independently and take responsibility for deliverables

Qualifications

  • Recognised degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management or similar
  • Outgoing personality, client facing and the ability to work independently and take the lead.
  • 3+ years post graduate experience
  • AIQS of RICS member or currently on the pathway to membership
  • Experience in CostX preferred
  • Experience across the life cycle of projects with experience in pre-contract, procurement, and post contract activities

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.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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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. 

  • Department: Real estate
  • Key Skills
    Cost managementCost planningQuantity surveyingConstruction managementPre-contract servicesPost-contract servicesVariation assessmentsProgress claimsCostXProcurementProject managementCommercial managementMarket knowledgeCommission management
    Categories
    ConstructionManagement & LeadershipFinance & AccountingConsultingRetail
    Benefits
    Flexible working environment
    Job Information
    📋Core Responsibilities
    The Cost Manager will deliver end-to-end cost management services for retail projects, including pre-contract cost planning and post-contract progress assessments. The role involves engaging with the local property market and integrating with project management teams to ensure successful project delivery.
    📋Job Type
    full time
    📊Experience Level
    2-5
    💼Company Size
    18997
    📊Visa Sponsorship
    No
    💼Language
    English
    🏢Working Hours
    40 hours
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