Assistant Cost Manager (Quantity Surveyor)

Job title: Assistant Cost Manager (Quantity Surveyor)

Company: Turner & Townsend


Job description: Company DescriptionWorking in partnership with our clients, we deliver major projects and programmes with skill and precision, by focusing on outcomes and driving high performance.Delivering innovative solutions and exceptional outcomes across our sectors, we drive the success of our client’s projects and programmes through effective planning, highly skilled teams, and rigorous controls.Our capabilities include asset management, controls and performance, cost and commercial management, digital, procurement and supply chain, programme advisory, project management and sustainability. Backed by our extensive experience, we focus on outcomes to transform client’s projects and programmes.With over 133 offices across 47 countries, we are an organisation of over GBP 1.5 billion turnover and 12,000+ talented team members across the world. In 2025, we are combining with CBRE’s Project Management business to create the premier, differentiated programme, project, and cost management capability globally. Through this change, our profile in Asia will scale significantly, comprising a team of over 4000 staff across all major countries in region. The combination of our programme management and project management and commercial management capabilities will provide a unique opportunity to do things for our clients.Job Description

• Responsible for total cost management of projects delivering positive outcomes for our clients, demonstrating leadership and coaching to Graduate CM, and innovation of service and knowledge.
• Carry out cost management and contract administration duties with reasonable supervision and guidance
• To provide all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
• Provide Documentation including Tender Document, Tender Report, Pre-contract correspondence, LOA and contract documents.
• To monitor and verifying VO, Claims, Payment, Final Account and attending project meetings.
• To produce monthly cost reports
• Provide CM role pro-actively and professionally and interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages

Qualifications

• Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor’s Degree of Quantity Surveying or equivalent with 3-5 years’ experience in related fields.
• Excellent technical knowledge and experience across the full range of Cost Management duties including: Cost Estimates, Bills of Quantities, Value Engineering, Tendering and Evaluation, Contract Knowledge, Change Orders and Final Account close-out
• Candidates with experience in commercial, corporate and high technology experience are preferred.
• Experience from consultancy background, well versed with mechanical and electrical (M&E) work experience is preferred.
• Sound technical knowledge on major MEP equipment / system including chillers, cooling towers, emergency generator, and power substation and building management system (BMS).
• Team player with excellent leadership and problem solving skills
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to negotiation, influence and persuade others

Additional InformationJoin 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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Location: Bayan Lepas, Pulau Pinang

Job date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:46:26 GMT

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