Turner & Townsend
Senior MEP Cost Manager - Real Estate
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MEP Senior Cost Manager – London Office
Turner & Townsend
Company Description
A global professional services company with over 22,000 people across more than 60 countries.
Turner & Townsend partners with clients in real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources to deliver transformative outcomes that improve lives. Together, we tackle challenges, turn complexity into success, and unlock the world’s most impactful projects.
Our expertise spans:
- Programme, project, and cost management
- Asset and commercial management
- Controls and performance
- Procurement and supply chain
- Net zero & digital solutions
CIBRE’s global leader in commercial real estate services, CBRE Group, Inc., majority-owns Turner & Townsend. This collaboration positions us to deliver best-in-class programme, project and cost management solutions worldwide.
About the Role
An exciting opportunity has emerged for an MEP Senior Cost Manager within our London Real Estate team. Join us in supporting dynamic clients to deliver cutting-edge projects across multiple sectors—including technical commissions such as asset upgrade works.
Responsibilities & Accountabilities
Core duties will include leading Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) deliverables as part of larger projects or direct MEP commissions. This demands:
Key Accountabilities
- Commission Management:
- Assisting in feasibility studies, drafting procurement reports, and delivering thorough due diligence
- Creating early budgets, estimates, and cost plans, reporting both internally and externally to clients
- Managing single or two-stage tendering processes alongside pre-qualification stages
- Handling post-contract cost variances and change control processes
- Ensuring timely and accurate cost checks, valuations, and reporting—escalating critical points to key stakeholders
- Preparing monthly post-contract cost reports for client presentation
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Client & Stakeholder Engagement:
- Representing the team in negotiations with contractors, designers, supervisors, and engineers
- Interfacing with external clients, main contractors, MEP supply chains, and subcontractors
- Business-to-business relationship management to drive efficiency, compliance andically
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Team Leadership & Mentoring:
- Leading a cost management team of 1–2 Assistant Cost Managers or Cost Managers within the MEP department, ensuring accountabilities are met
- Mentoring colleagues, upholding Turner & Townsend’s standards, and promoting MEP expertise both within the company and externally
- Developing, advancing, and guiding use of MEP digital systems, tools, and workflows
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Strategic Input:
- Contributing to value engineering efforts
- Collaborating in final account settlements & conclusion agreements
Requirements
Experience & Skills
- Proven track record delivering high-quality cost management/quantity surveying services across the full project lifecycle (pre-planning through project completion)
- Professionally qualified (RICS, or equivalent), or working towards equivalent qualifications
- Advanced degree (e.g. BSc/MSc in Quantity Surveying, Construction Cost Management, or related disciplines), or equivalent external trade qualification (e.g. HNC in Building Services Engineering)
- Hands-on experience in working with MEP elements—including design development, construction, and eventual handover stages
- Robust supply chain knowledge (tier 1 and below retailers and partners)
- Advanced familiarity with MEP contractor procurement strategies
- Adept at digital software for cost efficiency and service delivery:
- Key systems: [Turner & Townsend’s bespoke platforms?] or well-known tools such as Procore, RibbonCentral, and industry-standard programmes
- Commercial acumen and strong negotiation skills—tasked with agreeing final client contracts, design inputs, procurement deals
- Dynamic communication style: adept in client-facing discussions and internal teamwork, ensuring excellence in professional courtesy & delivery
- Ability to multi-task. Experienced cost manager managing multiple concurrent clients and projects
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Soft Skills & Mindset
- Highly self-motivated, proactive, and resilient under pressure
- Ambitious, collaborative, and solution-oriented—workable both independently and in teams
- Compliance focus: any SOX control responsibilities must align with company-driven controls where applicable
Benefits
Our culture fosters growth, collaboration, and purpose. Turner & Townsend offers:
- A supportive work environment nurturing both careers and personal well-being
- Flexible working to promote work-life balance
- Equal Opportunity: We commit to diversity and inclusion—implicit bias training. Actively encouraging applications from underrepresented groups.
- Technology Catalyst: Part of [Britain’s largest commercial real estate group, CBRE], affirming innovation in cost management via digital and data-driven tools.
Turner & Townsend Values
▹ Honesty & Integrity ▹ Mentorship ▹ Excellence & Reliability ▹ Inclusivity
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