Senior Estimators – Water Sector

Turner & Townsend; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Estimator with proven Water sector experience to join our UK-based team supporting regional and national projects. The role offers the flexibility to work remotely within the South East or Midlands regions, with a focus on producing accurate estimates for major programmes.

You will contribute to estimating best practice, support bids, and mentor junior staff while staying abreast of industry developments to deliver value for clients and the business.

Qualifications

• Qualified to high standard in estimating or quantity surveying with proven relevant experience.
• Relevant successful experience of providing estimating services to water sector.
• Experience using estimating software packages.

Responsibilities

• Production of estimates for complex, multi-disciplinary projects.
• Support development and promotion of estimating best practice within Turner & Townsend.
• Assist in achieving departmental objectives and bids for new work.
• Provide guidance to less experienced staff as a role model.
• Lead staff where appropriate on estimation tasks.

Skills

Estimating

Leadership

Education

Quantity Surveying degree

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.

Turner & Townsend is one of the leading consultancy providers to the Infrastructure sector and we have a thriving UK Estimating team making the difference for a large number of clients both in the UK and Overseas. We are now looking for talented Senior Estimators with proven Water sector experience to work within the South East or Midlands regions on a wide range of projects and major programmes of work.

Although our work is predominantly for regionally based clients, as workload requires, our estimating staff have the opportunity to work remotely (within region) on estimating tasks for our clients both nationally and internationally.

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
• Cost intelligence and benchmarking

As a SeniorEstimator at Turner & Townsend you will be responsible for:

• Supporting leadership or managing the production of accurate and comprehensive estimates for projects/programmes
• Playing a supporting role in the development and promotion of estimating good practice within Turner & Townsend;
• Playing a supporting role in the achievement of departmental objectives;
• Supporting bids for new work
• Acting as a role model for less experienced staff
• Staff management (where appropriate)
• Production of estimates on complex, multi-disciplinary projects;
• Supporting development and promotion of estimating best practice;
• 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 providing estimating services to the Water sector;
• 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.

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

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