Senior Estimator

Senior Estimator - Infrastructure

About

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. They work across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources, delivering outcomes that improve people's lives. Their capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset, and commercial management, net zero, and digital solutions. They are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc.

Responsibilities

• Produce and present independent estimates and cost advice to key infrastructure clients (e.g., aviation, transit, highways).
• Develop complex engineering projects from feasibility/concept design up to detailed design (pre-tender estimates).
• Review and validate continuous estimate submissions from General Contractors and provide cost advice within a Progressive Design Build environment.
• Provide costings of options and present them to project clients and stakeholders.
• Produce cost reconciliation estimates with justification for clients and stakeholders.
• Actively engage in value engineering workshops to identify cost savings and optimum solutions.
• Participate in probabilistic risk assessment workshops to calculate cost impacts for Quantitative Risk Assessments (QRA).
• Produce cost benchmarks for validation and target-setting on major infrastructure projects.
• Interface with project clients, stakeholders, contractors, and consultants to provide cost advice at all project stages.
• Collaborate with high-performing project teams to manage expectations and achieve client goals.
• Participate in the validation or assurance of Target Price submissions.

Requirements

• Quantity Surveying / Civil Engineering / Construction Management Degree and/or Certification or equivalent.
• Minimum of 8 years' post-graduate experience in cost estimating positions across pre-contract/post-contract phases of infrastructure projects.
• Membership of professional organizations (e.g., CIQS / RICS / AACE) is a bonus.
• Knowledge and proficiency with estimating software used on major civil engineering projects.