Cost Estimator

**Company Description**
Do you want to be part of our successful team supporting top clients for **Turner & Townsend?** We are hiring an ambitious and forward thinking **Estimator**to work in our team.

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

**Who are you?**

You are an experienced Estimator with a minimum of 5 years post-graduate experience looking for the next step or are currently undertaking a similar role in a similar environment
- Producing construction cost estimates for major projects from feasibility/ concept design up to detailed design (pre-tender estimates).
- Providing costings of options as part of the project Optioneering stages
- Providing cost reconciliation cost estimates including associated justification to be presented to project clients and key stakeholders;
- Engaging in value engineering workshops to identify the cost savings and optimum solutions available for the client
- Engaging in probabilistic risk assessment workshops to calculate contingency provisions e.g. Quantitative Risk Assessments (QRA)
- Provide client advice on capital and operational expenditure (OPEX) element of the project (e.g. operation and maintenance, life cycle cost, whole life costs, etc.)
- Experienced in producing cost benchmark for validation and target-setting on major rail infrastructure projects
- Taking a lead role in interfacing with project client and other technical consultants, at all project stages
- Work in close collaboration in high performing project teams to ensure expectations are managed adequately and clients goals are achieved

**Qualifications**
- Role based in Toronto
- Quantity Surveying / Civil Engineering / Construction Management Degree and/or Certification or equivalent
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in cost estimating positions
- Membership of professional organisations is a bonus (e.g. CIQS / RICS / AACE)
- Knowledge and proficiency with estimating software used on major civil engineering projects

**Additional Information**
What's in it for you...
- 100% covered health and dental benefits for you and your dependents (including paramedical services)
- Health spending account, to top up expenses not covered in the benefits program
- RRSP option with company matching
- Annual learning and development budget
- Access to a range of online learning tools, and support for career development and growth
- Cost coverage of up to two memberships and license fees per year (if directly related to your role)
- We believe in work-life balance, so you can recharge and take care of what matters most with vacation, flex and sick days
- A flexible, hybrid work approach that allows colleagues to find balance between their professional and personal lives
- Commitment to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture that promotes a sense of belonging

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.

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