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 workCoordinate, 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.