Estimator - Infrastructure

Turner & Townsend Limited; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services firm is seeking Estimators and Senior Estimators with expertise in the Infrastructure sector, including Rail, Airports, and Utilities. You will produce accurate estimates and manage the estimating process independently. Successful candidates will have significant experience, relevant qualifications in Estimating or Quantity Surveying, and familiarity with estimating software. The role offers the possibility for remote work in the UK, ensuring a healthy work-life balance and development in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Opportunity for professional development

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Qualifications

• Proven relevant experience in estimating or Quantity Surveying.
• Successful experience in providing estimating services in large projects.
• Ability to produce accurate estimates independently.

Responsibilities

• Produce accurate and comprehensive estimates and cost plans.
• Control and manage the estimating process at the project level.
• Support development and promotion of estimating good practices.

Skills

Estimating

Quantity Surveying

Estimating software

Education

High standard qualification in Estimating or Quantity Surveying

Membership of a relevant professional body (chartered status or working towards)

Desirable membership of RICS / CIOB / A. Cost E.

Tools

Estimating software packages

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 is 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 organization 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 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 your technical area of expertise to be able 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 it.
• 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.

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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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.

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