Managing Estimator

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive. Where will you be working? Want to come and be a part of it?

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the pricing and commercial development of strategic highways and street-lighting term maintenance tenders.
• Develop client information into accurate, competitive and commercially robust estimates.
• Develop robust, competitive and deliverable tender estimates that support profitable growth.
• Establish tender pricing strategies, incorporating risk, opportunity and market intelligence.
• Lead the estimating team and coordinate inputs from operational, commercial, procurement and bid functions.
• Coach, mentor and develop estimating professionals, driving capability growth, succession planning and improved of estimating standards across the business.
• Prepare and review cost models covering labour, plant, materials, subcontractors, preliminaries and overheads.
• Manage supply chain enquiries, quotation reviews and adjudications.
• Present pricing recommendations and commercial strategies at governance and tender sign-off reviews.
• Support clarification meetings, negotiations and client engagement activities.
• Undertake estimate assurance and peer reviews across strategic opportunities.
• Drive continuous improvement, digital estimating, lessons learned and estimating best practice.
  
  

Key Skills, Qualifications And Experience

• Extensive estimating experience within highways, infrastructure, civil engineering or term-maintenance environments.
• Proven track record of developing winning and profitable tender submissions.
• Strong knowledge of NEC contracts, specifications and commercial risk management.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary tender teams and managing competing deadlines.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to develop estimates from first principles.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and numerical skills with a high attention to detail.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence senior leaders.
• Experience using Candy or similar estimating software, alongside advanced Excel capabilities.
• Degree qualified or equivalent industry experience.
• Professional membership of RICS, CIOB or ACostE desirable.
• Flexible towards travel
  
  

What’s in it for you? We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and outside of work, some of which include; Matched or contributory pension scheme Employee Assistance Programme Access to Mental Health First Aiders My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s retail discounts Life Assurance Cycle to work scheme Enhanced maternity or paternity leave Reward and recognition scheme Online GP Service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year In addition, this role offers; Discretionary bonus scheme Company car and fuel card with a range of electric and hybrid vehicles to choose from Salary sacrifice car scheme Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more! Income protection (Milestone/ Director) Private health care for you and your family Single cover private health care Discretionary bonus scheme 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us! Company van and fuel card for business use Please note: Occasionally, we may close job adverts before the stated closing date. We’d encourage you to apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered. For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of our hiring process. Some of our roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of our induction.