Associate Director, Estimating – Data Center Construction

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Associate Director Estimating to support a highprofile clients largescale multibuilding data center campus program. The role focuses on developing detailed civil structural and architectural (CSA) estimates for complex innovative coreandshell facilities.

This position requires advanced estimating expertise the ability to operate effectively in fastpaced and evolving environments and proven experience supporting multiphase delivery across major capital construction programs.

This position is preferred to be based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a hybrid work schedule from Turner & Townsends San Francisco office. Remote candidates will be considered for the right individual based on experience and program needs.


Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and management of cost plans and detailed CSA estimates from concept through detailed design across multiple geographies.
• Provide programlevel estimating leadership across multiple projects and campuses to support portfoliolevel decisionmaking.
• Present milestone cost updates (concept schematic DD CD) clearly communicating basis of estimate assumptions inclusions/exclusions risks and opportunities.
• Lead quantity takeoffs and cost checks for complex multipackage CSA scopes ensuring alignment between scope drawings/models and estimates.
• Coordinate estimating activities across multiple teams and projects; ensure consistency accuracy and clarity of outputs.
• Review contractor pricing including bids pay applications and change orders; perform comparative analyses and prepare client recommendations.
• Lead change evaluation and pricing analysis to support informed commercial decisionmaking.
• Drive benchmarking and cost modeling building and maintaining historical cost data and metrics; support lifecycle cost (LCC) analyses.
• Facilitate and lead value engineering (VE) efforts; develop cost and schedule tradeoff options and support feasibility and earlystage cost modeling.
• Support procurement and preconstruction activities including prequalification bid list development bid analysis tender reporting and contract documentation.
• Partner with cost management procurement and project controls teams to align estimating outputs with budgets commercial strategy and program planning.
• Assess design development and program changes and produce timely estimate updates at appropriate accuracy levels.
• Lead mentor and coordinate estimating staff contributing to team development training materials templates and estimating tools.
• Prepare leadershipready and clientfacing estimating materials for executive preconstruction and governance presentations.
• Promote Turner & Townsends values purpose and collaborative onebusiness culture.
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role and must be adhered to where applicable.

Qualifications :

Required

• Bachelors degree in Construction Management Quantity Surveying Engineering or a related construction field.
• Minimum of 10 years experience in construction estimating or cost management on largescale capital programs.
• Data center or missioncritical construction experience strongly preferred including multibuilding campuses greenfield developments or major expansions.
• Proven expertise in conceptual estimating quantity takeoff and cost fundamentals across CSA scopes; familiarity with MEP systems is a plus.
• Demonstrated experience leading estimating teams and coordinating across multiple projects or programs.
• Strong knowledge of construction procurement strategies and commercial contract structures.
• Experience contributing to value engineering feasibility analysis and design/cost optimization.
• Excellent written verbal and clientfacing presentation skills with the ability to distill complex information for decisionmaking.
• Highly organized with the ability to prioritize across multiple concurrent projects in fastpaced environments.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office; experience with CostX strongly preferred; familiarity with AutoCAD or Navisworks is advantageous.

Preferred

• Professional accreditation (e.g. RICS) or active progress toward certification.
• Consultancy experience on large complex construction programs.

Additional Information :

*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our clients needs.

The base salary range for this role is $190K-$195K. This range reflects the companys good faith estimate of the base salary for this position at the time of the posting. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience skills qualifications and internal addition to base salary employees may be eligible for bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package

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Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time