Lead Senior Estimator - Data Center Construction

turnertownsend· Real estate
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About this role

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.
Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Estimator to join our team to support large scale construction projects and programs. The ideal candidate will be a great communicator with a strong track record of providing accurate estimating services. 

Responsibilities:  

  • Developing cost plans and estimates from concept through detailed design with internal and external staff. 
  • Delivering and presenting updated cost plans at appropriate design milestones. 
  • Experience in providing program-level estimates for specific scopes of work 
  • Coordinate, manage, and supervise the work of support staff. 
  • Reviewing proposed design changes/new technologies and preparing estimates within appropriate accuracy levels. 
  • Help drive cost model trends by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing cost information from completed projects. 
  • Assess cost effectiveness of alternate products and value engineering ideas at a program level. 
  • Support training to Development and external Estimating teams on new project estimating tools/templates. 
  • Support preparation of leadership presentations for the client’s Preconstruction and Estimating team. 
  • Delivering Life Cycle Costing models. 

Qualifications

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in construction management, Cost Management, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of relevant experience.
  • Experience in a construction cost management role, such as Cost Manager, Quantity Surveyor, Estimator, or Cost Engineer.
  • Experience providing conceptual estimating and preconstruction services for mining or industrial projects.
  • Strong knowledge of technical construction matters, including Value Engineering.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Advanced English proficiency.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. 

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list or that have not followed due process. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application.

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Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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. 

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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. 

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This is listed as a Full time position. It is posted as a Lead Senior Estimator - Data Center Construction role in the Real estate department at turnertownsend.
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This Lead Senior Estimator - Data Center Construction position at turnertownsend was posted on Jul 27, 2026. Apply as soon as possible — early applications are often reviewed first.
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