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Associate Director - MEP Estimator

Turner & Townsend Group
Boston, MA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/22/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/18/2025

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.

If you would like to know a bit more about this opportunity, or are considering applying, then please read the following job information.

With offices located globally, you're never far away from our services. Working from 113 offices in 46 countries, we make the difference to projects across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

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 large-scale Life Sciences construction projects, to act as the day-to-day interface with our clients and drive these projects to achieve excellent outcomes.

This role is to provide cost control and estimating services on our Life Sciences client’s 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 client-facing 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 cross-selling 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.

Pre-Contract- Planning

  • Provide estimate and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
  • 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 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 project 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.
  • Qualifications

  • A minimum of 8 years’ experience working in a construction cost management / Estimating role.
  • Minimum of 5 years post-graduate experience preparing large-scale Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) construction cost estimates.
  • Confident reviewing Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) 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.
  • Additional Information

  • On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs
  • Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

    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 work-life balance.

    Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

    Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com /

    Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list or that have not followed due process. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application.

    All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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