At Turner & Townsend, we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realise their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Every day, we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects in over 110 offices worldwide.
Turner & Townsend within the UK has a wide range of key clients in various sectors, including Health, Local Authorities, Higher Education, Highways, Utilities, Rail, and Defence. Our diverse portfolio of clients provides our team members with unique and rewarding opportunities to gain experience across a broad range of major programmes and projects.
Turner & Townsend are a key Tier 1 supplier of project and programme management services to the Ministry of Defence and strategic Defence suppliers in the UK. We play a crucial role in supporting the defence of the United Kingdom, whilst ensuring our clients achieve better outcomes.
Job Description
Important: Before applying, due to the sensitive nature of these projects, you must be a Sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain UK MoD Security Clearance (SC).
Turner & Townsend is one of the leading consultancy providers to the Infrastructure and Defence sectors and we have a thriving UK Estimating team making the difference for a large number of clients both in the UK and Overseas. We are now looking for talented Estimators with proven Defence estimating experience to work with a number of our key Defence sector clients in a wide variety of exciting projects/programmes.
Our team deliver a wide range of estimating outputs for our clients, to support their decision making, including:
- Estimate / cost model production (from Order of Magnitude through to detailed estimates)
- Estimating assurance
Responsibilities
- 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 client organisations.
- Assisting in the achievement of departmental objectives.
- Staying abreast of developments within own technical area of expertise to give best practice advice.
Qualifications
Qualification in Estimating, Quantity Surveying or Cost Engineering.
- Experience of working in the Defence sector.
- Demonstrable and proven experience in compilation, assurance and delivery of complex estimates and cost models.
- Working within an integrated Project Controls team.
- Public sector projects.
- Excellent and flexible skills in Microsoft Office Suite (MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience of working in a client‑facing environment.
Preferred:
- Membership of a relevant professional body with chartered status and/or educated to degree level.
- Experience in early stage estimating in complex / major Defence Infrastructure programmes.
- Familiarity with industry‑standard estimating software packages.
Security Clearance
Important: Before applying, due to the sensitive nature of these projects, you must be a Sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain UK MoD Security Clearance (SC).
Additional Information
Many of the clients and projects we support are subject to MoD security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and have active networks who 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/.
Estimator Defence Full-time • Birmingham, ENG, GB
Estimator Defence Full-Time in Birmingham employer: TURNER & TOWNSEND
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