Turner & Townsend
10,000+ employees
🏗️ Construction
💼 Consulting
🏠 Real Estate
Construction • Consulting • Real Estate
Turner & Townsend is a global consultancy business that serves clients in the real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors. With a commitment to building trust between clients, suppliers, governments, and society, they focus on delivering better outcomes that positively impact the world. Their specialities include programme strategy and setup, programme management, cost and commercial management, project management, procurement, safety, health and quality, controls and performance, technology and data, and advisory services. With 75 years of experience, Turner & Townsend aims to transform performance for a greener, more inclusive, and productive world.
Senior Electrical Cost Estimator – Data Center Construction
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Turner & Townsend
10,000+ employees
🏗️ Construction
💼 Consulting
🏠 Real Estate
Construction • Consulting • Real Estate
Turner & Townsend is a global consultancy business that serves clients in the real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors. With a commitment to building trust between clients, suppliers, governments, and society, they focus on delivering better outcomes that positively impact the world. Their specialities include programme strategy and setup, programme management, cost and commercial management, project management, procurement, safety, health and quality, controls and performance, technology and data, and advisory services. With 75 years of experience, Turner & Townsend aims to transform performance for a greener, more inclusive, and productive world.
📋 Description
• Lead detailed electrical cost estimates for hyperscale data center projects • Oversee electrical quantity takeoffs from drawings, specifications, and BIM models • Develop, validate, and challenge labor, material, and equipment pricing models • Maintain historical cost data, benchmarks, and estimating standards • Review and normalize electrical contractor and subcontractor bids • Lead value engineering and design optioneering efforts • Partner with engineering, procurement, and construction leaders on cost, constructability, schedule, and risk • Manage risks related to long-lead equipment, supply chain constraints, labor availability, and market escalation • Account for regional cost variability across U.S. markets • Support estimating for utility tie-ins, substations, and campus-wide electrical distribution • Contribute to standardized data center designs and repeatable delivery models • Ensure estimates align with codes, safety standards, sustainability, and energy-efficiency requirements • Prepare estimating deliverables and present findings to stakeholders • Participate in cost reviews, procurement discussions, funding approvals, and commercial strategy sessions • Assess electrical scope changes and cost impacts throughout design and construction • Provide estimating handover materials to construction teams • Mentor junior estimators and contribute to estimating best practices • Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities
🎯 Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience • 7+ years of experience in electrical estimating • Experience with data center, mission-critical, or large-scale infrastructure projects preferred • Canadian data center experience preferred • Advanced technical knowledge of power distribution systems, backup generation, UPS systems, electrical codes, and labor productivity • Experience estimating high-density and hyperscale electrical systems highly desirable • Proficiency with Accubid, ConEst, McCormick, Bluebeam, or similar estimating and takeoff tools • Strong familiarity interpreting BIM-based information • Strong analytical and communication skills • Ability to articulate cost drivers, assumptions, and risks clearly • Ability to operate independently and provide leadership in a collaborative, multidisciplinary project environment • Must be physically based in the United States • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States
🏖️ Benefits
• Remote work permitted from within the United States • Bonuses may be available in addition to base salary • Comprehensive benefits package • Healthy, productive, and flexible working environment • Work-life balance support • Opportunity to affect change and have a voice • Inclusive environment • Equal opportunity employer
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