Senior Estimator

Full-Time | Office-Based Role | Gold Coast

About Us

Living Gems is a family-owned business with over 40 years of experience as the pioneers in land lease living. Land lease communities operate where a purchaser owns the home but leases the land on which it sits, paying a weekly site fee which also covers access to the 5-star community facilities. There are no entry fees, no exit fees, and no stamp duty.

These premium lifestyle resorts are designed for over-50s to enjoy life to the fullest, promoting active living and relationship building for residents. Built to the highest standards, every resort is a place where quality, comfort, and connection come together beautifully.

The resorts centre around high spec, architecturally designed homes. Living Gems prides itself on its "standard home inclusions" which are constructed by our internal construction team. As the future resort operator, quality design and construction that requires minimal maintenance is essential.

Our Opportunity!

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Estimator to lead our residential estimating team and play a key role in delivering Living Gems projects.

This is a senior role with responsibility for managing and developing the estimating team, while remaining hands on with estimating, cost control, production estimating, and financial review activities across our residential developments.

What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborate with our internal drafting, interior design and sales teams to prepare and review detailed costings, take-offs and construction budgets.
• Assist residential site teams with tradesperson and supplier procurement.
• Process and verify invoices, claims and payment requests in accordance with contract terms.
• Assess, review and vet variation claims, extra-over charges and cost adjustments to ensure they are justified and accurately priced.
• Develop detailed scopes of works and system templates
• Provide guidance and support to estimators, including review of complex or high-value estimates
• Identify opportunities to improve estimating systems, processes and efficiencies

What You’ll Bring:

• 10+ years residential estimating experience (production background highly regarded)
• Previous experience leading and managing an estimating team
• High level proficiency in residential estimating software and construction costing systems.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Why You’ll Love It Here:

Living Gems is a 40-year-old company with existing projects under development, and new projects in the pipeline. You'll be working within a well-resourced, multidisciplinary team to achieve project objectives. Our fast-paced nature avoids clunky, drawn-out decision-making processes and allows our teams to focus on delivering project outcomes.

If this sounds like the kind of place where you'd thrive, we'd love to hear from you. Send a resume and a cover letter, telling us why you are the right fit for our team.