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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 programs as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include program, 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 program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Job Description
Turner & Townsend is seeking a Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to support the delivery of complex construction projects and capital programs. This client-facing role will provide cost management, quantity surveying, estimating, commercial oversight, and financial control throughout the project lifecycle, from planning and procurement through construction and closeout.
The successful candidate will be a strong communicator who can work independently while collaborating effectively with project teams and stakeholders to deliver successful project outcomes. This is an exciting opportunity to support a diverse portfolio of major capital projects in the Northeast Ohio market, with opportunities across a variety of high-growth sectors. In this role, you will help promote the purpose, values, and vision of Turner & Townsend while delivering best-in-class cost management services.
Responsibilities:
- Support procurement and tender processes, including vendor prequalification, bid evaluations, bid leveling, contractor selection, and contract award recommendations.
- Prepare and manage cost estimates throughout project lifecycles, including cost planning, benchmarking, value engineering, and risk assessments.
- Review estimates developed by team members and present recommendations, cost analyses, and project budgets to clients.
- Meet with contractors, vendors, and stakeholders to validate pricing, challenge assumptions, and identify cost-saving opportunities.
- Develop and maintain project cost reports, forecasts, budgets, commercial risk registers, and cash flow projections.
- Monitor project costs and expenditures against approved budgets and provide regular reporting to clients and project teams.
- Support change management processes, including review of change orders, contractor claims, payment applications, and cost impacts.
- Work closely with project managers, contractors, consultants, and owners to ensure accurate commercial reporting and cost control.
- Assist with contract administration, dispute avoidance, and commercial negotiations throughout the project lifecycle.
- Support invoicing, financial tracking, and project closeout activities, including final account settlement and post-contract audits.
- Participate in lessons learned reviews and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, processes, and training materials.
- Utilize cost estimating, quantity take-off, benchmarking, and reporting tools to support project delivery.
- Promote Turner & Townsend best practices, business systems, and delivery methodologies.
- SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role and must be adhered to where applicable.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Cost Management, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience in cost management, quantity surveying, estimating, cost controls, or commercial management within the construction industry.
- Experience supporting medium to large-scale capital construction projects across sectors such as data centers, semiconductors, life sciences, advanced manufacturing, healthcare, infrastructure, industrial, commercial, or mission-critical facilities.
- Construction consultancy experience strongly preferred.
- Experience preparing estimates, cost plans, forecasts, change order reviews, and commercial reporting.
- Knowledge of procurement strategies, contract administration, value engineering, and cost management principles.
- Familiarity with cost estimating, quantity take-off, and project controls software.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and client-facing skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced project environment.
- RICS accreditation, or progress toward accreditation, is preferred.
Additional Information
*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs.
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/ and www.heery.com/
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Join 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.
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 programs as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include program, 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 program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Job Description
Turner & Townsend is seeking a Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to support the delivery of complex construction projects and capital programs. This client-facing role will provide cost management, quantity surveying, estimating, commercial oversight, and financial control throughout the project lifecycle, from planning and procurement through construction and closeout.
The successful candidate will be a strong communicator who can work independently while collaborating effectively with project teams and stakeholders to deliver successful project outcomes. This is an exciting opportunity to support a diverse portfolio of major capital projects in the Northeast Ohio market, with opportunities across a variety of high-growth sectors. In this role, you will help promote the purpose, values, and vision of Turner & Townsend while delivering best-in-class cost management services.
Responsibilities:
- Support procurement and tender processes, including vendor prequalification, bid evaluations, bid leveling, contractor selection, and contract award recommendations.
- Prepare and manage cost estimates throughout project lifecycles, including cost planning, benchmarking, value engineering, and risk assessments.
- Review estimates developed by team members and present recommendations, cost analyses, and project budgets to clients.
- Meet with contractors, vendors, and stakeholders to validate pricing, challenge assumptions, and identify cost-saving opportunities.
- Develop and maintain project cost reports, forecasts, budgets, commercial risk registers, and cash flow projections.
- Monitor project costs and expenditures against approved budgets and provide regular reporting to clients and project teams.
- Support change management processes, including review of change orders, contractor claims, payment applications, and cost impacts.
- Work closely with project managers, contractors, consultants, and owners to ensure accurate commercial reporting and cost control.
- Assist with contract administration, dispute avoidance, and commercial negotiations throughout the project lifecycle.
- Support invoicing, financial tracking, and project closeout activities, including final account settlement and post-contract audits.
- Participate in lessons learned reviews and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, processes, and training materials.
- Utilize cost estimating, quantity take-off, benchmarking, and reporting tools to support project delivery.
- Promote Turner & Townsend best practices, business systems, and delivery methodologies.
- SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role and must be adhered to where applicable.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Cost Management, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience in cost management, quantity surveying, estimating, cost controls, or commercial management within the construction industry.
- Experience supporting medium to large-scale capital construction projects across sectors such as data centers, semiconductors, life sciences, advanced manufacturing, healthcare, infrastructure, industrial, commercial, or mission-critical facilities.
- Construction consultancy experience strongly preferred.
- Experience preparing estimates, cost plans, forecasts, change order reviews, and commercial reporting.
- Knowledge of procurement strategies, contract administration, value engineering, and cost management principles.
- Familiarity with cost estimating, quantity take-off, and project controls software.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and client-facing skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced project environment.
- RICS accreditation, or progress toward accreditation, is preferred.
Additional Information
*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs.
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/ and www.heery.com/
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Join 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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Who's Hiring
- Turner & Townsend Pty Limited113
- Turner & Townsend15
- Currie & Brown Holdings6
- VINCI4
- Mace2
Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services
- Construction & Real Estate
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in managing quantity surveyor jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in quantity surveying, construction management, or civil engineering
- 5 or more years of post-graduate quantity surveying experience on commercial or infrastructure projects
- Chartered membership or progress toward RICS, CIQS, or equivalent professional body
- Proficiency in cost estimating and measurement software such as CostX or Bluebeam
- Demonstrated experience managing NEC, JCT, or AIA contract forms including claims and variations
- Strong working knowledge of procurement strategy, tendering processes, and subcontract administration
Tips for Your Managing Quantity Surveyor Job Search
Tailor your resume to procurement stage
Hiring managers for managing quantity surveyor roles scan for cost planning, tendering, and final account settlement as distinct phases. List which stages you've owned end-to-end rather than bundling them under a generic 'cost management' bullet.
Highlight software your team actually used
CostX, Candy, Bluebeam, and COINS each signal a different type of employer. Name the platform, the project type, and the contract value you managed with it so recruiters can match your experience to their tech stack.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists managing quantity surveyor openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Lead with contract value in applications
Managing quantity surveyors are evaluated on the scale of projects they've steered. Front-load your cover letter and resume summary with the total contract value and delivery model, lump sum, GMP, or cost-plus, of your two or three largest projects.
Prepare a claims and variations case study
Interviewers for senior QS roles almost always probe dispute resolution and variation management. Walk in with a specific example: the original scope, what triggered the variation, how you valued it, and how the final account was settled.
Negotiate against the full compensation package
Many managing quantity surveyor roles include professional development allowances, CPD funding, and vehicle or mileage provisions that rarely appear in the headline offer. Ask for the full benefits summary before accepting so you're comparing the complete picture.
Managing Quantity Surveyor Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most managing quantity surveyors?
The most active employers for managing quantity surveyors right now are Turner & Townsend Pty Limited, Turner & Townsend, and Currie & Brown Holdings, and the most openings are in California, Virginia, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Activity shifts with large infrastructure awards, so checking listings regularly gives you the most current picture.
How many managing quantity surveyor jobs are remote?
About 74% of managing quantity surveyor openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with most flexibility found in cost consultancy and advisory roles rather than site-based delivery positions. Project-facing roles tied to active construction programs typically require at least some on-site presence during key cost reporting and handover periods.
How do you become a managing quantity surveyor?
Start with a degree in quantity surveying or a related construction discipline, then gain experience across the full project cost cycle from feasibility through final account. Progress through progressively senior roles handling larger contract values, build proficiency in industry cost software, and work toward chartered status with a recognized professional body. Taking on team leadership and mentoring responsibilities signals readiness for a managing title.
How do you get hired as a managing quantity surveyor with little experience?
Focus on roles titled senior quantity surveyor or project quantity surveyor that include leadership responsibilities, since these build the management evidence employers look for. Demonstrate ownership of a complete project cost cycle, even on a smaller contract, and document any mentoring or coordination duties you've held. Pursuing chartership actively signals commitment and partially offsets a shorter senior-level history.
What does the managing quantity surveyor interview process look like?
Most employers run two to three rounds. The first is typically a screening call covering your background and project experience. A technical interview follows, probing cost planning methodology, contract administration, and how you've handled claims or disputes. Final-stage interviews often involve a practice leader or director and shift toward leadership style, client management, and commercial judgment on complex scenarios.
Where can I find and apply to managing quantity surveyor jobs?
You can find and apply to managing quantity surveyor jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience, contract specialism, and preferred location, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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