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