Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives.
Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenges into opportunities 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.
Job Description
Turner & Townsend is seeking a Construction Estimator to join our talented team. The ideal individual will be a good communicator and a team player with a good foundation in cost and estimating.
Responsibilities
Develop cost plans and estimates from concept through detailed design.
Support client land acquisitions.
Deliver and present updated cost plans at appropriate design milestones.
Review proposed design changes/new technologies and prepare estimates within appropriate accuracy levels.
Understand design stages and estimate levels.
Provide commercial input to design optioneering and input into value engineering exercises.
Prepare cash commitment forecasts for the construction life cycle.
Work collaboratively with stakeholders in the preparation of estimates/cost plans.
Analyze labor markets and cost drivers such as unions & tax.
Support clients with monthly presentations.
Deliver life cycle costing models.
Benchmark integration to ensure accurate data capture.
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
Qualifications
Advanced level of English required, as the candidate will be working with international clients.
Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or a field related to construction.
Minimum 3–5 years of relevant experience.
Experience working in a construction cost management role such as estimating, cost engineering, project engineering, project cost controls, etc.
Thrives in a client-facing role.
Experience supporting program-level cost management for medium or large-scale construction projects.
Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as value management and value engineering.
Strong communication skills.
Additional Information
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work‑life balance.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CVs that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list or that have not followed due process. Any speculative or unsolicited CVs will be treated as a direct application.
It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e‑mail accounts are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.
Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com.
