Estimator - Life Sciences

Turner & Townsend
Wilson, NC

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Construction Estimator to join our talented team. The ideal individual will be a good communicator and a team player with a good foundation in cost and estimating.

Responsibilities:

  • Reviewing proposed design changes/new technologies and preparing estimates within appropriate accuracy levels.
  • Developing cost plans and estimates from concept through detailed design.
  • Delivering and presenting updated cost plans at appropriate design milestones.
  • Understanding design stages and estimate levels.
  • Providing commercial input to design optioneering and input into value engineering exercises.
  • Preparing cash commit forecasts for the construction life cycle.
  • Working collaboratively with stakeholders in the preparation of estimates/ cost plans.
  • Supporting our clients with monthly presentations.
  • Delivering Life Cycle Costing models.
  • Benchmarking integration to ensure accurate data capture.
Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction.
  • Minimum 3 years of relevant experience
  • Experience working in a construction cost management role such as Estimating, Cost Engineer, Project Engineer, Project Cost Controls etc.
  • Thrives in a client facing role.
  • Experience supporting program level cost management for medium or large-scale construction projects.
  • Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as value management and value engineering
  • Strong communication skills

Additional Information

Turner & Townsend is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Equal Employment Opportunity Posters If you’d like to view a copy of the company’s affirmative action plan, please email [email protected]. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact the Human Resources Department at 713-457-9400 or [email protected]. This telephone line and email address is reserved solely for job seekers with disabilities requesting accessibility assistance or an accommodation in the job application process. Please do not call about the status of your job application if you do not require accessibility assistance or an accommodation. Messages left for other purposes, such as following up on an application or non-disability related technical issues, will not receive a response.

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Turner & Townsend carefully considers multiple factors to determine compensation, including a candidate’s education, training, and experience. The minimum salary for the Estimator position is $100,000 annually and the maximum salary for the Estimator is $135,000 annually. The compensation that is offered to a successful candidate will depend on the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience.

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.

Posted 2026-03-21

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