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Associate Director

Cairns City, Queensland💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-28 → 2026-09-27

Core

Lead the growth of operations in Far North Queensland for a cost management firm, managing a team of Quantity Surveyors and Cost Engineers while delivering pre-contract and cost planning works.

Role type

Associate Director, Quantity Surveying

Builds

Cost plans, commercial strategies, and team capacity for construction and infrastructure clients

Domain

Construction and Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Pre-contract cost planning, bottom-up and top-down cost estimation, team leadership and mentoring, client relationship management, commercial process implementation, quality assurance, project lifecycle management

Preferred skills

RICS/AIQS accreditation, proficiency in Cost X software, experience in Australia

Technologies

Cost X

Responsibilities

Identify new business opportunities with existing clients, build and mentor a team of Quantity Surveyors and Cost Engineers, attend and facilitate client and consultant meetings, interface with clients and consultants at all project stages, manage and grow the Cairns office, assign project tasks, implement commercial processes, provide commercial support to team members, implement Quality Assurance processes, identify and resolve project issues, perform general Quantity Surveying duties

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership

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