Senior Estimator
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Job Description
Turner & Townsend are engaged to support our clients with many complex projects responsible for all aspects of cost management and project delivery. We are seeking a Senior Estimator with experience working on largescale Life Sciences construction projects to act as the daytoday interface with our clients and drive these projects to achieve excellent outcomes.
You have a chance to be a key player in our Life Sciences future as part of a team of innovative professionals shaping our built environment.
This role is to provide cost control and estimating services on our Life Sciences clients facility capital construction program Mechanical Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) experience is essential. To be successful in this role you must have great communication skills and be comfortable operating in a clientfacing role.
Job Objectives:
- Strong leadership skills: experience leading an Estimating team ensuring they deliver on all accountabilities.
- Taking a lead role in interfacing with the client stakeholders and other consultants at all project stages.
- Identifying opportunities to improve estimating cost management procedures templates and products.
- Knowledge management Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each commission is inputted into internal/ external client benchmarking databases and shared.
- Process improvement Identifying and acting upon ways to improve internal systems and processes.
- Taking responsibility for developing new business opportunities with existing and new Turner & Townsend clients.
- Identifying and acting upon crossselling opportunities.
- Lead proposals for new work or variations for existing projects.
- Attending relevant networking events and other promotional opportunities.
- Staff management Inputting into the formal management of staff and recruitment interviews.
- Undertake Staff Performance reviews.
PreContract Planning
- Provide estimate and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
- Develop Project Capital Estimates using a bottomsup approach.
- Ability to estimate at conceptual programming and detailed level.
- Provide expert estimating services for Life science from early idea stage RFP and contract negotiation. through to construction completion managing key relationships with the client CM and project team.
- Lead the training of templates & tools for the general contractor to ensure submissions are compliant for commercial analysis.
- Assist on feasibility studies and writing procurement reports.
- Assist in all aspects of procurement including managing the prequalification stage produce bid list bid analysis produce bid report and compile contractual documents.
- Provide input into value engineering; assist in negotiating and approving final bids.
- Maintain liaison with client and other consultants at all projects stages.
- Provide leadership to cost management team when necessary ensure the delivery on all of accountabilities.
- Provide detailed comparative analysis of commercial submittals from the CM.
- Lead the commercial review of the competitive bid process for major trades.
- Support the project delivery team with postcontract cost analysis & change order reviews.
- Benchmarking integration to ensure accurate data capture.
PostContract
- Assisting in change management activities throughout the project lifecycle throughout a portfolio.
- Assisting in Production of monthly post contract cost reports and present to client.
- Manage cost checks and carry out valuations on larger projects and ensure timely and accurate cost checking and valuation process.
Qualifications :
- A minimum of 8 years experience working in a construction cost management/ Estimating role.
- Minimum of 5 years postgraduate experience preparing largescale Mechanical Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) construction cost estimates.
- Confident reviewing Mechanical Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) Subcontract packages with client key stakeholders.
- College and/or postgraduate degree in construction management cost management quantity surveying engineering or field related to construction.
- RICS accredited/ AACE or working towards is valuable but not required.
- Experience working on largescale Life Sciences projects or similar.
- Experience of leading cost management on medium or large sized construction projects of medium to high complexity.
- Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters such as different procurement routes value management and value engineering.
- US experience is strongly desirable.
Additional Information :
*Onsite presence and requirements may change depending on our clients needs*
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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 worklife balance.
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
