Leader Cost Estimation - Brisbane City, Australia - Urban Utilities

Urban Utilities Brisbane City, Australia

4 weeks ago

Description

There's No Us Without U. Care with Us, for Today and Tomorrow

There's no life without water, and at Urban Utilities, we live and breathe that knowledge every single day. As leaders, we inspire and empower our passionate team to drive meaningful change. Join us in shaping the future of Urban Utilities, making a lasting impact, and leading our teams towards a better tomorrow.

Your Opportunity

We have a new vacant Leader Cost Estimation role in our growing Integrated Solutions Group.

This role will see you responsible for the development and continual improvement of Urban Utilities infrastructure cost estimation processes that takes into consideration cost data, analytics, market intelligence and estimating knowledge that ensures the optimisation of infrastructure investments decisions.

The role leads a diverse professional team comprising Urban Utilities' employees, specialised contractors, and a professional community of practice across major contract partners to provide confidence of planned investment costs and demonstrable efficiency of Urban Utilities' infrastructure investments.

Some of your accountabilities will include:

Communicate the actions needed to implement Cost Intelligence's mission, business plan, professional standards and technical standards within the team, to key customers and across the partner ecosystem.
Manage relationships with internal clients and act as a business partner to them, building high levels of professional credibility and mutual trust, and managing the deployment of appropriate internal and/or external resources to support in delivering business strategy and plans.
Lead the delivery of cost intelligence services which provides conduct complex analyses of the investment costs to identify variances, suggest efficiencies, and increase profitability.
Lead the production of and approval cost estimates, ensuring that all activities, take off quantities, construction methodology, schedule, resourcing and material sources of risk are identified.
Develop a deep understanding Integrated Solutions' major contracts for integrated planning, engineering services, solutions development and delivery to effectively estimate proposed costs and recommend optimisations.

About You

We are seeking candidates who are passionate about shaping our future, and ideally have the following qualifications, skills, and experiences:

Tertiary qualification in Construction Management/Engineering or other relevant discipline, and/or equivalent industry experience.
You possess strong leadership skills with a proven ability to manage teams of specialist level resources. You'll foster an inclusive and high-performing culture to safely deliver capital investment program.
Extensive experience in developing project design scope from minimal information determining the "take off" quantities, determining a construction methodology, and planning out the project to determine the schedule/labour/services.
Ideally previous experience in Early Contractor Involvement (ECI), Open Book, Performance Incentivised delivery frameworks or similar contract models

At UU, we celebrate diversity. We genuinely believe that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expressions is key and crucial to our success as a business. You might find you meet some, but not all, of the job requirements for this role. We'd still encourage you to apply as we we're looking for the right human being for this role - it's about so much more than ticking all the boxes

Why Urban Utilities?

At Urban Utilities, the work we do is about so much more than the bottom line. We're a leading provider of world-class drinking water and wastewater services to the vibrant communities of Brisbane, Ipswich, Lockyer Valley, Somerset, and Scenic Rim. As we continue to grow, we're committed to planning ahead and shaping a sustainable future around water for generations to come.

At the core of our work lies genuine care: for our team, our customers, communities, and the environment. From the flush of a toilet to major infrastructure projects and residential developments, we're dedicated to being there every step of the way.

Our HQ is in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, but you'll find us all over SEQ - working in cool places like the SAS Laboratory in Darra, field-based depots in Eagle Farm, Acacia Ridge, Bundamba, and wastewater treatment plants dotted across the region.

We know the chance to thrive, and progress comes hand in hand with the support to balance work with life. So, you'll access an increasingly diverse range of benefits and initiatives that'll help you bring the best you. Speaking of which, here's just a sample of the benefits we offer our team:

Generous Salary Packaging options, including novated leases
Corporate discounts across Health insurance, technology and more
18 weeks of paid parental leave, 15 days personal leave including two proactive wellbeing days, and an additional day of leave each year to connect with friends and family
Flexibility at UU depends on the type of work you do but could include options such as, 9-day fortnights and flexible days. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you
Urban Utilities is an endorsed employer for all women. See our range of benefits and policies directly at WORK180

Visit our website to learn more about us at

How to apply

Click on the 'Apply" link to complete your application.

Please note: applicants will be required to undergo a Pre-employment medical & National PolicevHistory Check as part of the recruitment process for this role.

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