Senior Estimator - Infrastructure

Turner & Townsend; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is recruiting Senior Estimators to join our Infrastructure Estimating Hub across UK offices including London, Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester. You will embed with client teams or work across multiple clients on performed cost estimates and cost plans.

Opportunities to work remotely from the UK are available, with on-site requirements in major offices as needed. Experience across Rail, Airports, Highways and Utilities is desirable.

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

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 be able to give best practice advice in line with business objectives.

Skills

Estimating

Cost planning

Project experience

Education

Estimating or QS qualification

Chartered status or in progress

Tools

Estimating software

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.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

Owing to continued demand and our ambitious plans for growth, Turner & Townsend are looking to recruit 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 Assurance
• Estimating Support to Major Programme Set up
• Estimating Data

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
• 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.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com

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

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