Estimator- Associate Director

Turner & Townsend; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking an Associate Director Project Manager to lead estimating and cost management across major water and infrastructure projects. The role involves managing client relationships, governance, and delivering high-quality estimates within complex environments.

You will oversee multidisciplinary teams, develop estimating strategies, and support business case development and investment decisions, with a focus on value and risk management.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience within the infrastructure, engineering, or construction industry, with a proven track record of delivering complex projects and programmes in a client-facing environment.
• Proven experience leading estimating commissions across major infrastructure projects and programmes, with accountability for the quality and delivery of estimating services.
• Strong technical expertise in estimate production, from order of magnitude estimates through to detailed estimates built up from first principles.
• Demonstrable experience in the successful delivery of major programmes, managing complex stakeholder environments, multidisciplinary teams, significant budgets, and strategic project objectives.
• Ability to lead estimating workstreams, set technical direction and coordinate inputs from multidisciplinary teams.
• Lead the development and implementation of estimating strategies aligned to client investment objectives, programme delivery requirements and organisational goals.

Responsibilities

• Lead estimating workstreams on major infrastructure projects and programmes.
• Coordinate inputs from multidisciplinary teams to develop robust estimates.
• Develop estimating strategies and implement governance and standards across programmes.
• Support client and consultant relationships through robust estimating advice.
• Lead value engineering and cost-improvement initiatives to optimise whole-life value.

Skills

Estimating leadership

Cost management

NEC4 contracts

Client-facing experience

Governance and assurance

Education

Estimating/Cost Management qualification

Chartered with RICS/CIOB or equivalent

Job description

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.

Significant growth in the water sector means we are looking for an Associate Director Project Manager to support the successful delivery of high-profile projects and programmes across the water sector. This is a nationwide role with regular travel requirements to client locations, including a minimum of three days per week either in client offices, or on site.

We have opportunities in a diverse portfolio of major water and infrastructure works, including strategic water supply programmes, environmental improvement programmes, and major asset upgrades. As an Associate Project Managers you will lead teams and manage safe, timely, high-quality delivery within budget. You will work with multidisciplinary teams, contractors, consultants and client stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes. Depending on the programme, roles may also involve alliance delivery, portfolio management and complex change.

A strong understanding of infrastructure delivery within a regulated environment is beneficial. You will be comfortable operating within a fast-paced delivery environment, with a good understanding of governance, a strong focus on safety and a collaborative one-team approach.

Associate Directors at Turner & Townsend:

Associate Directors specialising in estimating at Turner & Townsend work on a broad range of projects and programmes in the Utilities sector, including clean and wastewater treatment facilities, mains installation and replacement, environmental improvement, asset management, developer services, Major Projects, Strategic Resource Options, and many more. We are looking for individuals with the following skills, experience and attributes:

• Demonstrableexperience within the infrastructure, engineering, or construction industry, with a proven track record of delivering complex projects and programmes in a client-facing environment
• Proven experience leading estimating commissions across major infrastructure projects and programmes, with accountability for the quality and delivery of estimating services
• Strong technical expertise in estimate production, from order of magnitude estimates through to detailed estimates built up from first principles
• Demonstrable experience in the successful delivery of major programmes, managing complex stakeholder environments, multidisciplinary teams, significant budgets, and strategic project objectives
• Ability to lead estimating workstreams, set technical direction and coordinate inputs from multidisciplinary teams
• Lead the development and implementation of estimating strategies aligned to client investment objectives, programme delivery requirements and organisational goals.
• Support business case development, investment approvals and decision gateway reviews through the provision of robust cost and estimating advice.
• Establish and maintain estimating governance, assurance frameworks and standards across programmes, ensuring compliance with organisational and client requirements.
• Lead the review, challenge and assurance of significant estimates and cost plans, providing independent validation and recommendations to support decision-making.
• Provide technical leadership for estimating teams, establishing estimating methodologies, processes and delivery approaches across major programmes.
• Ability to challenge estimating assumptions and provide clear recommendations to project teams and contractors
• Lead value engineering and value improvement initiatives, ensuring estimating outputs support optimum investment outcomes and whole-life value.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of operating within a consultancy environment, acting as a trusted advisor to clients while maintaining independence from both client and supplier organisations, and balancing multiple stakeholder needs to achieve successful project outcomes
• Experience assessing estimating risks and uncertainties and advising clients on their implications for budgets, option appraisal and investment decisions
• Experience establishing estimating approaches and processes to support major programme set-up
• Lead client and consultant relationships throughout all project stages, providing trusted estimating advice
• Develop new business opportunities with existing and new clients, including bids and cross-selling
• Oversee estimating tools, data and benchmarks, lead improvements to estimating methods and standards, promote knowledge sharing and contribute to departmental objectives including the supporting of data-driven decision making.
• Lead and develop estimating teams, including staff management and resource planning

Client site- x3 days per week in Peterborough

Qualifications

• Experience within the water, utilities or environmental sectors
• Strong commercial and contractual awareness including NEC4 contracts
• Estimating experience across a range of contractual delivery models

Qualifications

• Relevant qualification in Estimating, Quantity Surveying, Cost Management or related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience
• Chartered status with a relevant professional body, such as RICS or CIOB, or an equivalent professional qualification relevant to estimating

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.

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

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Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:

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 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.

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