Senior Estimator – Industrial and Maritime Construction
About The Position
Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Construction Estimator to support large-scale industrial and maritime construction projects and programs. The role develops, manages, and validates estimates throughout the project lifecycle, from early feasibility and conceptual planning through detailed design and preconstruction. The ideal candidate has extensive estimating experience in industrial, maritime, port, shipyard, marine, manufacturing, heavy industrial, or complex infrastructure projects, with a strong understanding of construction methodologies, market conditions, labor and material pricing, quantity takeoffs, value engineering, and cost benchmarking. The Senior Estimator provides clients and project teams with accurate, data-driven cost guidance to support strategic decisions and project outcomes. The position requires strong communication, analytical and detail-oriented skills, self-motivation, independent work, and effective collaboration with multidisciplinary stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a 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, or Project Cost Controls.
- 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, including value management and value engineering.
- Excellent communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Develop cost plans and estimates from concept through detailed design across multiple geographic regions, working with internal and external staff.
- Deliver and present updated cost plans at appropriate design milestones.
- Provide program-level estimates for specific scopes of work.
- Coordinate, manage, and supervise support staff.
- Review proposed design changes and new technologies and prepare estimates at appropriate accuracy levels.
- Collect, analyze, and summarize cost information from completed projects to help develop cost model trends.
- Assess the cost effectiveness of alternate products and value engineering ideas at a program level.
- Support training for Development and external Estimating teams on new project estimating tools and templates.
- Support preparation of leadership presentations for the client’s Preconstruction and Estimating team.
- Deliver Life Cycle Costing models.
- Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities.
Benefits
- Employees may be eligible for bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package.
- Flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
