Senior Pre

1 month ago

Chicago, Illinois, United States Turner & Townsend Full time
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 Pre-Construction 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.

You have a chance to be a key player in our Life Sciences future, as part of a team of innovative professionals shaping our built environment.

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.

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 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 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.

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