Estimator - Infrastructure

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

Job summary

A global professional services company is seeking Estimators and Senior Estimators for their London office, with opportunities in Birmingham, Bristol, and Manchester. The candidates should possess significant experience in the Infrastructure sector, focusing on Rail, Airports, and Utilities. Responsibilities include producing detailed cost estimates, managing the estimating process, and promoting best practices. Ideal candidates have a background in Estimating or Quantity Surveying and can utilize estimating software. The role supports flexibility, including the option for remote work from the UK.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Focus on work-life balance

Inclusive workplace culture

Qualifications

• Proven relevant experience in estimating or quantity surveying.
• Experience of provision of estimating services in a large project environment.
• Membership of a relevant professional body with chartered status or working towards.

Responsibilities

• Produce accurate estimates and cost plans for projects.
• Manage the estimating process at project level.
• Support best practices in estimating within the company.

Skills

Estimating or Quantity Surveying expertise

Experience with estimating software packages

Ability to produce comprehensive estimates

Effective communication skills

Education

Degree in Estimating or Quantity Surveying

Chartered status or working towards membership

Tools

Estimating software packages

Job description

Company 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.

Job Description

Owing to continued demand and 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 delivers 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 Assurance
• Estimating Support to Major Programme Set up
• Estimating Data

Responsibilities

• 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 give best‑practice advice in line with business objectives.

Qualifications

• Qualified to a 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.

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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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.

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