Lendlease is a globally integrated real estate group with core expertise in Investment Management, Development, and Construction. For more than 60 years, we have created thriving places around the globe. We are dedicated to relationships, open and honest, true to our word, challenging in our approach, exceptional in everything we do, and one team. We live our values, respect, integrity, innovation, collaboration, excellence, and trust.

The Role

With a national delivery capability, Lendlease Construction provides innovative and industry-leading project management, design and construction services driven by sector focused knowledge and experience. We push boundaries and embrace challenges. Our clients come to us when it’s significant to handle complexity, drive diversity, offer strategic and long-term value, and to create innovative and sustainable solutions. Lendlease have an exciting career opportunity to join our National Services Cost Planning team to help drive our current and upcoming pipeline of work around the country. As a Cost Planner / Estimator you will report to the Services Cost Planning and Estimating Manager and will be responsible for providing cost planning support, specialising in building services trades (Mechanical, Electrical, Hydraulics, Fire, Technologies, and Vertical Transport).

- Create and manage services trade budgets.
- Prepare detailed measures and estimates.
- Collate data analytics and benchmarking.
- Provide cost support for value engineering and option management.
- Participate in services procurement strategies to drive competitive outcomes.
- Assess commercial opportunities and risks.




- Engage and maintain relationships with internal and external Clients, Partners, Consultants, Subcontractors and Suppliers.
- Lead and manage the tender analysis and cost vetting process of services subcontractor tender returns.
- Be actively engaged in collaborative tender processes.
- Provide cost planning assistance for Sustainable initiatives and emerging technologies.

About you

- Relevant tertiary qualifications and technical post tertiary qualifications, combined with Cost Planning / Estimating / Quantity Surveying experience.
- Specialist experience in building services trades (Mechanical, Electrical, Hydraulics, Fire, Technologies, and Vertical Transport).
- Experience with estimating platforms such as CostX.
- First class decision making and influencing skills.
- Leadership and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to act professionally and build trust, partnerships, and relationships with all internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to work collaboratively and autonomously, in a fast-paced environment.

About us

- Health & Well-being program, including well-being leave to relax and recharge, health assessments, and gym/exercise discounts.




- Balance your career and personal life with work flexibility, purchase additional annual leave and extensive family support benefits.
- 3x extra Wellbeing days per year (on top of annual leave)
- Large pipeline of project work for career development and growth opportunities
- Bonus scheme, Employee Share Acquisition program and options for salary sacrificing.

Lendlease welcomes applicants regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, people with a disability, sexual orientation, or life stage. We value the unique experiences, perspectives and aspirations that every candidate brings. Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is reflected in a range of initiatives, including our Elevate Reconciliation Action Plan, which guides our partnership with First Nations peoples to advance reconciliation, create opportunities, and support thriving communities through First Nations-led city shaping.

Lendlease is Australia’s leading real estate business with an international investments platform. We’re city shapers, asset creators and trusted partners. Our deep property experience and bold thinking delivers innovative real estate and investment solutions. Very few organisations can build cities from scratch, including the infrastructure to connect people, with skills to design, develop, fund, build and manage, but we can. We purposefully seek to hire people who share our values and passion to make a positive impact. Whether big or small, we make a difference and all of us have a part to play in our success. Together we make a difference.

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📌 Services Cost Planner (New South Wales)
🏢 Lendlease
📍 New South Wales