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Cost Planning and Estimating Lead

CompanyTurner & Townsend
LocationSydney
Work ModeOn Site
PostedMay 17, 2026
About The Company
We're Turner & Townsend – a global programme manager. For more than 80 years, we’ve helped deliver the projects that define how people live, work and connect. From shaping resilient cities to advancing clean energy, we approach every challenge with the same goal – to make a meaningful and lasting impact. Partnering closely with our clients, we plan, manage and deliver complex projects and portfolios. Our teams bring the leadership, commercial expertise and independent advice that unlocks performance and protects investment. From the metro systems moving millions of people to the data centres powering the digital economy, we bring ambitious plans to life and deliver outcomes that matter.
About the 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

Essential Energy / RDP / Cost Planning & Estimating Lead

  • Establishing a structured and reliable source of construction project forecast costs, appropriate to the lifecycle phase, the role requires skills in both top-down structured cost planning, in addition to bottom-up estimating.
  • To establish template cost plans and an in-house database of construction and other applicable capex costs, as well as establishing a guide to appropriate inclusion of risk allowances at various lifecycle phases.
  • It is envisaged that the service provider will take a cost-planning approach to all cost forecasting, supplemented by quantity-based estimates only where appropriate and where suitable detailed documentation is available.
  • Precedent external and in-house data should be blended strategically with design and site information to the extent it is available, to deliver a model that can be flexibly ‘statused’ and updated as new information comes to hand, without requiring an onerous update of all components of the estimate.
  • Use of appropriate contingency allowances is required to be made in consultation with the broader project team.
     

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.

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

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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. 

  • Department: Energy and natural resources
  • Key Skills
    Cost planningEstimatingConstruction project forecastingCapex cost managementRisk allowance managementData analysisProject managementCommercial managementProcurementSupply chain managementDigital solutionsFinancial modeling
    Categories
    ConstructionConsultingEnergyFinance & AccountingManagement & Leadership
    Benefits
    Flexible working environmentWork-life balance support
    Job Information
    📋Core Responsibilities
    The role involves establishing structured construction project forecast costs and maintaining an in-house database for capex costs. You will be responsible for blending design and site information to create flexible cost models while managing contingency allowances.
    📋Job Type
    full time
    📊Experience Level
    5-10
    💼Company Size
    17643
    📊Visa Sponsorship
    No
    💼Language
    English
    🏢Working Hours
    40 hours
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