Senior Construction Estimator

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources, we deliver outcomes that improve people’s lives by turning challenge into opportunity and complexity into success. Our capabilities include programme, 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.

About the role

Turner & Townsend’s vision is to expand our global footprint, with the US as our biggest growth market. Opportunities are available across the globe for the right candidate.

Responsibilities

• Utilize cost methodologies and tools to produce cost estimates, incorporating project complexity factors and assembling key input data such as project objectives, scope, and economic analysis.
• Formulate and validate methodologies for deriving quantities from design parameters.
• Perform uncertainty analysis and sensitivities on cost estimates, reflecting analysis of project risks.
• Manage reviews and audits of cost estimates.
• Benchmark against historical performance, industry norms, and established KPIs.
• Assess prospect scope and develop consistent, high-level conceptual estimates for each concept under consideration.
• Develop capacity factored estimates and location factor adjustments.
• Assess prospect scope and main components to create "building block" estimates for each concept.
• Utilize Technical, Economical, Commercial, Organizational & Political (TECOP) profile to establish appropriate deterministic cost contingency.
• Translate project scope and engineering deliverables into capital expenditure cost estimates for design, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning, and start-up.
• Develop detailed project cost estimates using detailed MTOs matched with pricing and construction unit hours, identifying areas of uncertainty and applying allowances.
• Incorporate project actuals to date and detailed MTOs for to-go costs.
• Develop an Estimate Basis to document how the estimate was developed.
• Establish processes to collect, condition, and normalize actual cost performance data for future use, developing metrics and benchmarking.
• Develop benchmarking packages to validate estimate results against internal and external comparable datasets.
• Adhere to SOX control responsibilities where applicable.

Requirements

• Engineering Degree and/or certification as a Cost Estimator or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 12 years of industry experience in senior/lead estimator positions.
• Excellent analytical, oral, and written communication skills.
• Fully versed in cost estimating principles, techniques, and industry-standard tools.

Additional Information

On-site presence and requirements may vary depending on client needs.

Turner & Townsend promotes a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.