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Senior Estimator – Construction Management

Turner & Townsend
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 3/11/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/11/2025

Company Description


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

With offices located globally, you're never far away from our services. With over 22,000 specialists in more than 60 countries, we blend local knowledge with global insight to tackle challenges of any scale. 

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 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. 

Qualifications

 

  • Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or 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, 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.

Additional Information


The salary range for this full-time role is $140K-$155K per year. Ranges are determined by role and level and represent a good faith effort to provide a fair and equitable salary. This range is a reflection of base salary only, not of a total compensation package.  Please note Turner & Townsend reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted range, depending on candidate’s experience and qualifications.

*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our clients' 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. 

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. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application. 

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.  

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

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Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review. 

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