Senior Estimator – Real Estate Construction

Job Description
Turner &
Townsend are currently looking for a Senior Estimator to work within our Real Estate Commercial Team in Houston producing detailed resourced based estimates to evaluate design changes, maintain the baseline cost, and challenge contractors’ estimates.
Key Elements:
Production of accurate and comprehensive estimates for projects in a timely and efficient manner.
Control and management of the estimating process at project level.
Production of estimates without management or supervision.
Able to work as part of a team or as an individual with limited supervision.
Supporting development and promotion of estimating good practice within Turner &
Townsend.
Supporting estimating good practice as a representative of Turner &
Townsend within our clients.
Assisting in the achievement of departmental objectives.
Staying abreast of developments within own technical area of expertise to be able to give best practice advice in line with business objectives.
Skills:
Utilize cost methodologies and tools to produce cost estimates. Incorporate project complexity factors into project estimates and assemble key input data such as project objectives, scope and economic analysis. Formulate and validate methodologies for deriving quantities from design parameters. Perform uncertainty analysis and sensitivities on cost estimates, reflecting analysis of project risks. Manage reviews and audits of cost estimates. Benchmark against historical performance, industry norms and established KPIs.
Assess prospect scope and develop consistent, high level conceptual estimates (Type-1) for each concept under consideration. Experienced with development of capacity factored estimates and location factor adjustments.
Assess prospect scope and main components to develop consistent "
Building block"
estimates (Type-2) for each concept under consideration. Utilize Technical, Economical, Commercial, Organizational &
Political (TECOP) profile to establish appropriate deterministic cost contingency.
Translate the identified project scope and engineering deliverables into the estimate of capital expenditure costs for design, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning and start-up of the hardware elements (Type-3). Estimate composed of detailed MTOs matched with detailed pricing and construction unit hours. Identify areas of uncertainty and apply appropriate allowances.
Development of detailed project cost estimate (Type-4). Incorporation of project actuals to date and detailed MTOs matched with detailed pricing and construction unit hours for to-go costs.
Develop Estimate Basis to document how estimate was developed.
Manage Estimating Data- Establish process to collect actual cost performance, condition and normalize data for future use, develop metrics and benchmarking information.
Benchmarking of Estimates- Develop benchmarking packages at appropriate level to check estimate results from top down versus both internal and external comparable data. Work with IPA forms and reports to understand comparison of client’s projects to industry datasets.
Cost Estimator will also develop expertise in probabilistic cost estimating and will be a subject matter resource within the global Project Management Services community for projects that are using that cost estimating method.