Estimating Lead Nz

Company Description
**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts - planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers - leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.

**Job Description**:
AECOM’s Cost Management practice has a rare opportunity for an experienced Quantity Surveyor / Cost Manager to join our highly successful team. Based in either Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington or Christchurch, this is a newly created position to support our National Practice Lead and our Regional Team Leaders with the technical delivery of cost estimating on construction projects throughout NZ.

As a senior member of our award-winning Cost Management business, you will be responsible for leading and delivering cost planning and estimating services on some of New Zealand’s largest and most iconic building and infrastructure projects. Specific areas of responsibility will include:

- Maintaining and improving our existing estimating tools and processes (including rates databases, estimating templates, reports, risk modelling, and embodied carbon estimating tools)
- Supporting our regional team leaders and team members through estimating training and estimating support
- Promoting estimating best practice and inputting to our internal ANZ wide technical practice group
- Driving a high-quality preconstruction cost management experience for our clients

This Principal / Associate Director level role will undertake the management of resources, budgets and timelines and enhancing client and working relationships. This role will also assist with business development, leading and preparing proposals and include presentations to clients to win work.

**Qualifications**:
We are looking for an experienced Quantity Surveyor with a solid background in consulting who shares our passion for delivering high quality consulting services to our clients.
- Bachelor of Quantity Surveying or similar
- Member of a recognised professional institute (i.e.: NZIQS, RICS, AIQS, etc.)
- Solid experience working within a consulting environment
- Demonstrated skills in leading and managing project cost estimating and cost planning
- Experience leading a team of professionals and/or project teams
- Proficient in the use of MS Office Suite, Cost X

Additional Information

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.