_{24th September, 2026}

UP Recruitment has partnered with a project management, quantity surveying and advisory firm to appoint an Associate / Senior Quantity Surveyor to their Auckland team.

This is a senior opportunity for a commercially minded QS who wants to move beyond traditional cost management and take on greater client responsibility, strategic advisory and business development.

You'll join a team working across the full asset lifecycle, with involvement from early feasibility and concept through procurement, delivery, final account, handover and ongoing asset advisory.

The Role

You'll work predominantly with private-sector clients, alongside selected public-sector projects, providing high-level cost management and commercial advice across major and technically complex developments.

The portfolio includes:

• Industrial developments
• Aviation projects
• Healthcare
• Data centres
• Luxury residential
• Hotels
• Mixed-use developments

You'll be involved across the full project lifecycle, including:

• Feasibility and initial cost advice
• Concept and detailed cost planning
• Procurement strategy and tendering
• Commercial and procurement advice
• Contract administration and cost control
• Construction-stage cost management
• Variations, claims and commercial reporting
• Final accounts and project close-out
• Handover and ongoing asset advisory

This is not simply a role focused on producing cost plans. You'll be expected to understand the client's wider objectives, provide strategic commercial advice and help shape procurement and delivery decisions.

At Associate level, you'll also take a meaningful role in client relationships, winning work and developing the wider business.

The Team

You'll join an established advisory business with a strong reputation across the New Zealand property and construction market.

The team works closely across project management, quantity surveying and advisory, giving you the opportunity to collaborate with experienced professionals across different disciplines.

It's an environment suited to someone who is commercially confident, client-focused and looking for greater influence over both projects and the direction of the business.

There is also a genuine pathway to take on broader leadership responsibility and potentially become part of the ownership / shareholder structure over time.
 
What You'll Need

• 8-10+ years' Quantity Surveying / Cost Management experience
• Strong experience across commercial construction projects
• PQS / consultancy experience preferred
• Strong technical capability across cost planning and project delivery
• Excellent understanding of procurement and construction contracts
• Experience providing commercial advice directly to clients
• Strong understanding of project feasibility, cost planning and financial control
• Confident managing client relationships and stakeholder expectations
• Commercially minded with strong communication skills
• Comfortable contributing to business development and winning new work
• Ideally experience across technically complex or high-value projects
• Someone who is ambitious and interested in progressing beyond pure technical QS work

Why Join?

Senior client exposure

You'll work directly with sophisticated private-sector clients and have genuine influence over project and commercial decisions.

Full asset lifecycle

Gain exposure from feasibility and concept through procurement, construction, final account, handover and ongoing asset advisory.

Strategic advisory

Move beyond traditional QS delivery and become more involved in procurement strategy, commercial advice and helping clients make better investment and delivery decisions.

Complex projects

Work across sectors including industrial, aviation, healthcare, data centres, hotels, luxury residential and mixed-use developments.

Business development

At Associate level, you'll have genuine involvement in client development, winning new work and growing relationships, rather than simply delivering projects handed to you.

Leadership and ownership pathway

For the right person, there is an opportunity to progress into broader leadership responsibilities and potentially the wider ownership / shareholder structure.
 
What's on Offer

$170,000 - $200,000+ base salary, depending on experience

Plus:

• Private health insurance
• Enhanced KiwiSaver contribution
• Flexible working arrangements
• Work-from-home flexibility
• Flexible start and finish times
• Genuine pathway towards leadership and ownership

If you're an experienced Quantity Surveyor looking for a role that combines technical delivery, strategic advisory, client relationships and a genuine leadership pathway, I'd be keen to have a confidential conversation.

If this sounds like something you would be interested in, get in touch!

• Email Dennis at UP Recruitment on Dennis@uprecruitment.co.nz
• Click apply!

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