Estimator - Infrastructure

Turner & Townsend Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services company in the UK is seeking Estimators and Senior Estimators with experience in the Infrastructure sector, particularly in Rail, Airports, Highways, Power, Water, or Utilities. The role involves producing accurate estimates, managing the estimating process, and requires relevant qualifications. Opportunities for remote work exist. The company promotes a balanced workplace and values diversity.

Qualifications

• Proven relevant experience in estimating services in large projects.
• Experience of working with estimating software packages required.
• Membership of RICS / CIOB / A. Cost E. is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Produce accurate and comprehensive estimates and cost plans.
• Control and manage the estimating process at project level.
• Stay abreast of developments in technical area for best practice.

Skills

Estimating

Quantity Surveying

Estimating software packages

Education

Qualified in Estimating or Quantity Surveying

Membership of relevant professional body

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.

Owing to continued demand and our ambitious plans for growth, Turner & Townsend are looking to recruit Estimators and Senior Estimators with proven experience across the Infrastructure (Rail, Airports, Highways, Power, Water or Utilities) sector. Opportunities are available in our London, Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester offices.

Estimators 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 Estimators 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 Estimating 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 an Estimator 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.

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 it
• 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.

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.