Senior 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 transform challenges into opportunities and deliver outcomes that improve lives. 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 is seeking an experienced Senior Construction Estimator to join our team and support large-scale construction projects and programs. The ideal candidate will be a strong communicator with a proven track record of providing accurate estimating services.

Responsibilities

• Develop cost plans and estimates from concept through detailed design across multiple geographic regions, collaborating with internal and external staff.
• Deliver and present updated cost plans at appropriate design milestones.
• Provide program-level estimates for specific scopes of work.
• Coordinate, manage, and supervise the work of support staff.
• Review proposed design changes and new technologies, preparing estimates within appropriate accuracy levels.
• Drive cost model trends by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing cost information from completed projects.
• Assess cost effectiveness of alternate products and value engineering ideas at a program level.
• Support training for Development and external Estimating teams on new project estimating tools/templates.
• Support preparation of leadership presentations for the client’s Preconstruction and Estimating team.
• Deliver Life Cycle Costing models.
• Adhere to SOX control responsibilities where applicable.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a field related to construction.
• Minimum 5-7 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in a construction cost management role such as Cost Manager, Quantity Surveyor, Estimator, Cost Engineer, Project Engineer, or Project Cost Controls.
• Experience providing conceptual estimating services and/or pre-construction services at a construction management or related firm.
• Experience supporting large-scale construction projects and programs.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, including value management and value engineering.
• Excellent communication skills.