Senior Life Sciences Construction Estimator

Turner & Townsend; West Greenwich (RI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Construction Estimator to join our team and support large-scale construction projects and programs. The ideal candidate will communicate effectively and deliver accurate cost estimates from concept through detailed design across multiple regions.

Responsibilities include developing cost plans, presenting updates at milestones, coordinating staff, and contributing to value engineering and cost control efforts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction.
• Minimum 5-7 years of relevant experience
• Experience in a construction cost management role such as Cost Manager, Quantity Surveyor, Estimator, Cost Engineer, Project Engineer, Project Cost Controls etc.
• Experience providing conceptual estimating services and/or pre-construction services at a construction management or related firm.
• Experience supporting large scale construction projects and programs
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as value management and value engineering.

Responsibilities

• Developing cost plans and estimates from concept through detailed design across multiple geographic regions; with internal and external staff.
• Delivering and presenting updated cost plans at appropriate design milestones.
• Experience in providing program-level estimates for specific scopes of work
• Coordinate, manage, and supervise the work of support staff.
• Reviewing proposed design changes/new technologies and preparing estimates within appropriate accuracy levels.
• Help drive cost model trends by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing cost information from completed projects.
• Assess cost effectiveness of alternate products and value engineering ideas at a program level.
• Support training to Development and external Estimating teams on new project estimating tools/templates.
• Support preparation of leadership presentations for the client’s Preconstruction and Estimating team.
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Skills

Communication

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction

Job description

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Construction Estimator to join our team and support large-scale construction projects and programs. The ideal candidate will communicate effectively and deliver accurate cost estimates from concept through detailed design across multiple regions.

Responsibilities include developing cost plans, presenting updates at milestones, coordinating staff, and contributing to value engineering and cost control efforts.