Senior Estimator - MEP

From the inception of a project through to completion and beyond, Turner & Townsend help to deliver the outcomes that matter through transformational programs covering the full spectrum of consultancy, project delivery and post-project operations.

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• 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.
• Subject matter expertise for new work or variations for existing projects.

Pre-Contract- Planning

• Provide estimate and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
• Develop Project Capital Estimates using a bottoms-up 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 in all aspects of procurement, including managing the pre-qualification 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 post-contract cost analysis & change order reviews.
• Benchmarking integration to ensure accurate data capture.

Post-Contract

• 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.

• A minimum of 7 years’ post graduate experience working in a construction cost management/ Estimating role and preparing large-scale construction cost estimates.
• Confident reviewing Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP), Civil and Architectural Subcontract packages with client key stakeholders.
• College and/or post-graduate 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 large-scale 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.
  
  

*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs*

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