Cost Planner/Senior Cost Planner - Infrastructure

Owing to continued demand and our ambitious plans for growth, Turner & Townsend are looking to recruit Cost Planners and Senior Cost Planners with proven experience across the Infrastructure (Rail, Airports, Highways, Water or Utilities) sector.
Cost Planners at Turner & Townsend make the difference for our clients by supporting them as an embedded resource within their organisation or through ad-hoc pieces of work for multiple clients across the Infrastructure sector as part of the Turner & Townsend Estimating Hub. Although our work is predominantly for UK-based clients, as workload requires, our Cost Planners have the opportunity to work remotely (from the UK) on estimating tasks for our clients across the globe.
Our team deliver a wide range of cost planning outputs for our clients, to support their decision making, including:
Estimate Production (from Order of Magnitude estimates through to detailed estimates built up from first principles)
Estimating Assurance
Estimating Support to Major Programme Set up
Estimating Data
As a Cost Planner at Turner & Townsend you will be responsible for:
Production of accurate and comprehensive estimates and cost plans 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;
Supporting development and promotion of estimating good practice within Turner & Townsend;
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.
Prepare accurate and comprehensive Estimates and Cost Plans for large or complex Programmes or projects in a timely and efficient manner
Support the change control process of their projects
Support development of demonstration of Value for Money through production of reports and benchmarking analysis
Undertake commercial assurance and negotiation of contractors offers
Qualified to high standard in Estimating or Quantity Surveying with proven relevant experience
Relevant successful experience of provision of estimating and/or QS services in a large project environment.
Previous experience of working with estimating software packages.
Membership of a relevant professional body with chartered status or working towards
Desirable membership of RICS / CIOB /A. Cost E.

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
No