Associate Director

Turner & Townsend$150K — $200K *
Real Estate & Construction
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Construction Management required.
  • 7 years of experience in a related role or job offered.
  • Strong leadership skills to manage specialist Estimating team.
  • Proven ability to interface with clients and project stakeholders at all stages.
  • Expertise in financial management and cost risk assessments.
  • Experience in managing proposals and variations for client contracts.
  • Skilled in utilizing estimating tools and dashboards for project performance monitoring.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Estimating team to deliver on client commissions.
  • Build strong relationships with clients and stakeholders throughout project stages.
  • Conduct and advise on project-level and program-level cost risk assessments.
  • Enhance cost management procedures and templates for operational efficiency.
  • Ensure project insights are documented for continuous improvement.
  • Manage proposals for new and ongoing client projects effectively.
  • Oversee staff management, including recruitment and performance development.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance coverage.
  • Retirement savings plans with employer contributions.
  • Opportunities for professional development and training.
  • Flexible working arrangements and remote work options.
  • Access to industry networking events and resources.
Full Job Description
Job Title: Associate Director City: New York State: NY or any other unanticipated worksites/locations throughout the US 1. Lead the specialist Estimating team on specific client commissions, making sure that the team delivers on all accountabilities. 2. Interface with the client, stakeholders, and other consultants, at all project stages. Ensure strong relationships and alignment on all work scopes and requirements that must be reflected in the project estimates and forecast costs. 3. Prepare and assess project level, program level and company level cost risk assessments and advise on their impact to clients. 4. Identify opportunities to improve cost management procedures, templates and products both for company and their clients. 5. Ensure that key information and learning generated from each project is inputted into internal databases and shared, driving continuous improvement and best practice and ensuring that company has clear and current market information at all times to provide the most accurate cost estimates and market analysis. 6. Lead proposals for new work from existing and potential clients and manage variations to contracts and scopes of work for existing projects. 7. Attend relevant networking events and other promotional opportunities to expand market visibility and brand awareness and further strengthen existing relationships. 8. Staff management - Input into the formal management of staff and recruitment interviews. Including performance reviews, weekly meetings, resource and workload planning. 9. Coach and Develop new and existing team members to ensure they can achieve their maximum potential. 10. Financial management - Utilize Estimating and Industry tools and Dashboards to monitor the ongoing project performance and ensure monthly fee and resource forecasts are accurate and up to date for each commission and report monthly status to Directors. 11. Review and participate with the design services team and general contractor, JV Partners or subcontractors, in the development of the cost estimates, including detailed reviews of market pricing. This is to include Target Maximum Budgets, pricing proposals, scope of works assumptions, detailed subcontractor pricing, schedule assessments and risks. 12. Quality Control and Quality Assurance, ensuring estimates and proposals prepared by the team are in compliance with quality standards and any relevant external quality assurance audits. 13. Communicate or meet with general contractor, subcontractors and owner project manager to gather status information to prepare a cost estimate update. 14. Prepare written comments to the general contractor's or subcontractor's submissions, including the executive summary. Coordinate all sources of cost information for cost discussions and suppliers, subcontractors including quantities and information from the Design Teams. 15. Benchmark internal and Contractor or third party cost estimates against prevailing market conditions and develop and maintain current and historical databases of market pricing and rates. RELATED OCCUPATION: Senior Estimator or any other job title performing the following job duties: 1. Was responsible for delivery of project estimates on time and to the quality required including reporting and presenting to client managers and ensuring satisfactory completeness and accuracy along with delivering Estimate Basis Reports and presenting at Estimate and Schedule Assurance Reviews. Coordinated with other disciplines including Scheduling and Risk Management and Design and Engineering teams which included leading other team members or disciplines to ensure delivery of the estimate on time and to the required standard. 2. Interfaced with the client, stakeholders, and other consultants, at all project stages. Ensured strong relationships and alignment on all work scopes and requirements that must be reflected in the project estimates and forecast costs. 3. Prepared and assessed project level, program level and company level cost risk assessments and advised on their impact to clients. 4. Identified opportunities to improve cost management procedures, templates and products both for company and their clients. 5. Staff management- Performed resource planning and workload planning and reporting for current and upcoming projects. 6. Worked as a team and developed overall improvements and learnings on an ongoing basis with the aim of improving the systems, tools, processes and overall team knowledge and experience on a peer to peer basis which involved coaching less experienced Team Members and working on improved solutions. 7. Prepared estimates using specialist estimating software to include risk, fees, overheads, running costs and such like and a forecast of how these would be spent, the final financial position of the project was forecast to be and a detailed cashflow or activity schedule explaining how much would be spent and when it would be spent during the project schedule. Presented cost calculations to internal senior management and the client project team, explaining how these calculations were done and what the impact would be for potential future events. 8. Reviewed and participated with the design services team and general contractor, JV Partners or subcontractors, in the development of the cost estimates, including detailed reviews of market pricing to include Target Maximum Budgets, pricing proposals, scope of works assumptions, detailed subcontractor pricing, schedule assessments and risks. 9. Quality Control and Quality Assurance, ensured estimates and proposals prepared by the team are in compliance with quality standards and any relevant external quality assurance audits. 10. Communicated or met with general contractor, subcontractors and owner project manager to gather status information to prepare a cost estimate update. 11. Prepared written comments to the general contractor's or subcontractor's submissions, including the executive summary. Coordinated all sources of cost information for cost discussions and suppliers, subcontractors including quantities and information from the Design Teams. 12. Benchmarked internal and Contractor or third party cost estimates against prevailing market conditions and developed and maintained current and historical databases of market pricing and rates. JOB TIME: Full Time SALARY RANGE: $150,000.00 to $200,000.00/year Qualifications EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENT: Requires a Bachelor's degree in Construction Management and 7 years of experience in job offered or 7 years of experience in the Related Occupation.

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