Senior Estimator – Construction Management

About the position

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Construction Estimator to join our growing Chicago area team to support large-scale construction projects and programs. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to advance your career while collaborating with a dynamic team on impactful projects across a versatile portfolio in the corporate occupier (commercial interiors), industrial manufacturing, and data center sectors. The ideal candidate will be a great communicator with a strong track record of providing accurate estimating services. To be successful in this role, you must have excellent communication skills and be comfortable operating in a client-facing role.

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.
• Delivering Life Cycle Costing models.
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction.
• A minimum of 6 years' 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.
• Experience working on large, complex and/or high value corporate occupier (commercial interiors), industrial manufacturing, and/or data center sectors.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as value management and value engineering.
• Excellent communication skills.

Benefits

• Salary range of $140K-$155K per year.
• Promotes a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.