Cost Estimator – Retail Construction
Turner & Townsend
- San Francisco, CA
- $120,000-140,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Developing cost plans and estimates from concept through detailed design across the United States with internal and external staff.
- Delivering and presenting updated cost plans at appropriate design milestones.
- Reviewing proposed design changes/new technologies and prepare estimates within appropriate accuracy levels.
- Helping drive cost model trends by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing cost information from in-flight and projects.
- Assessing cost effectiveness of alternate products and value engineering ideas at a program level.
- Supporting training to Development and external Estimating teams on new project estimating tools/templates.
- Supporting the preparation of leadership presentations for the client’s Preconstruction and Estimating team.
- Able and willing to work onsite in Cupertino 3 days per week (client provides a shuttle).
- Experience in a construction cost management role such as Cost Manager, Quantity Surveyor, Estimator, Cost Engineer, etc.
- Experience providing conceptual estimating services and/or pre-construction services at a construction management or related firm.
- Retail or commercial construction experience in an estimating role; industries of preferred experience: hospitality, offices, civic, museum buildings, or luxury retail.
- Experience supervising direct staff responsible for delivering estimating services preferred.
- College and/or post-graduate degree in construction management or a related field.
- Excellent communicator and 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.
- Expertise in estimating software such as InEight, Cost X, WinEst, Sage, or equivalent.
- Expertise in Microsoft Excel is essential.
- MEP experience is beneficial.