Cost Planner/Senior Cost Planner - Infrastructure

Turner & Townsend; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Cost Planner/Senior Cost Planner for infrastructure projects in the UK. You will produce accurate estimates and cost plans for rail, airports, highways, water or utilities, and support the estimating process across live programmes.

This role offers the option to work remotely from the UK on estimating tasks while delivering value for major programmes in a collaborative, professional environment with a focus on quality and best practice in cost management.

Qualifications

• Qualified to high standard in Estimating or Quantity Surveying with proven relevant experience.
• Experience delivering estimating or QS services on large project environments.
• Experience with estimating software packages.
• Membership of a professional body with chartered status or working towards.
• Desirable membership of RICS / CIOB /A. Cost E.

Responsibilities

• Produce accurate estimates and cost plans for large or complex programmes or projects in a timely and efficient manner.
• Control and management of the estimating process at project level.
• Produce estimates without management or supervision.
• Support development and promotion of estimating good practice within Turner & Townsend.
• Assist in the achievement of departmental objectives.
• Staying abreast of developments within own technical area of expertise to give best practice advice.
• Prepare accurate and comprehensive Estimates and Cost Plans for large or complex Programmes or projects in a timely and efficient manner
• Support the change control process of their projects
• Support development of demonstration of Value for Money through production of reports and benchmarking analysis
• Undertake commercial assurance and negotiation of contractors offers

Education

Estimating/Quantity Surveying

Estimating/QS professional body membership

Estimating software experience

Chartered status or working towards

RICS/CIOB/ACICostE membership

Tools

Estimating software

Job description

Cost Planner/Senior Cost Planner - Infrastructure

• Full-time
• Department: Infrastructure

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 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, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Owing to continued demand and our ambitious plans for growth, Turner & Townsend are looking to recruitCost PlannersandSenior Cost Plannerswith proven experience across the Infrastructure (Rail, Airports, Highways, Water or Utilities) sector.

Cost Planners at Turner & Townsend make the difference for our clients by supporting them as an embedded resource within their organisation or through ad-hoc pieces of work for multiple clients across the Infrastructure sector as part of the Turner & Townsend Estimating Hub. Although our work is predominantly for UK-based clients, as workload requires, our Cost Planners have the opportunity to work remotely (from the UK) on estimating tasks for our clients across the globe.

Our team deliver a wide range of cost planning outputs for our clients, to support their decision making, including:

• Estimate Production (from Order of Magnitude estimates through to detailed estimates built up from first principles)
• Estimating Support to Major Programme Set up

As a Cost Planner at Turner & Townsend you will be responsible for:

• Production of accurate and comprehensive estimates and cost plans for projects in a timely and efficient manner.
• Control and management of the estimating process at project level;
• Production of estimates without management or supervision;
• Supporting development and promotion of estimating good practice within Turner & Townsend;
• Assisting in the achievement of departmental objectives;
• Staying abreast of developments within own technical area of expertise to be able to give best practice advice in line with business objectives.
• Prepare accurate and comprehensive Estimates and Cost Plans for large or complex Programmes or projects in a timely and efficient manner
• Support the change control process of their projects
• Support development of demonstration of Value for Money through production of reports and benchmarking analysis
• Undertake commercial assurance and negotiation of contractors offers

Qualifications

• Qualified to high standard in Estimating or Quantity Surveying with proven relevant experience
• Relevant successful experience of provision of estimating and/or QS services in a large project environment.
• Previous experience of working with estimating software packages.
• Membership of a relevant professional body with chartered status or working towards
• Desirable membership of RICS / CIOB /A. Cost E.

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.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.