Senior Estimator

About Us
Places for everyone. That’s our mission. To shape cities, create connected communities and deliver workplaces of the future, right around the world.
As a globally integrated real estate group, we draw on decades of experience and the latest thinking in development, design, placemaking, construction and investments to deliver iconic and enormously successful places.
What will you do?
The Senior Estimator is responsible for all cost planning and construction bids for internal and external clients from inception stage.
Accountable for all financial inputs into the project cost and analyze all inputs received from other members of the project team and assess their appropriateness.
Responsible for setting and establishing the cost planning strategy and resource requirements for agreement by all.
Ability to accurately quantify and price cost plans from Development Briefs / Feasibility stage through to Contract Price with preferred contractor.
Participate and evaluate Value Engineering solutions and Value Management.
Responsible for all inputs into the cost sections of the relevant governance review.
In collaboration with the pre-construction consultant/commercial managers, secure market prices for trade packages and analyze same against cost plan allowances.
Maintain an awareness of the market conditions and published reports affecting inflation to be able to justify the inflation amount included within your cost plan.
Support the development of best practices / standards, knowledge base, sector expertise including industry trends, yardsticks, or benchmarks.
Communicate in a clear, concise, open manner with other members of the team.
What you will bring:
Experience of working on large scale, complex, multi-phase projects with an excellent knowledge of costing, pricing, prelims and benchmarking within the Construction and Development industries, with experience in the Office and Residential sectors. Public realm & infrastructure experience also preferred.
Familiar with standard methods of measurement and other industry/professional best practice.
Ability to seek to understand the broader context and bring design and build solutions that serve the wider Lendlease agenda.
Ability to engage collaboratively with sub-contractors / suppliers.
What we provide
At Lendlease we are placemakers and value creators and, for us to deliver on these strategic priorities, we recognize that the health and well-being of our people comes first. By combining awareness, prevention, and support for financial, mental, physical and lifestyle well-being, we provide a structure that empowers everyone at Lendlease to thrive. Want to find out more about our benefits click here.
Belong at Lendlease
We offer workplaces that unite diverse minds; where respect, equal treatment and equal opportunity are just the beginning. We strive for our workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities in which we work; and for everyone to feel they belong, build careers, develop skills, and invest in people. Imagine what more you can do here.
Lendlease is committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer of choice by engaging, enabling and empowering our people. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. Inclusion sets us all up for success and we particularly encourage applications from currently under-represented groups in our industry including those who self-identify as women, black, Asian, minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or disabled.
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