Estimator

Job Description

The Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) project currently involves the planning, design and construction of circa 320km of new strategic, large diameter, clean water interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure across Anglian Water’s region. The SPA Alliance is also taking on responsibility for the future interconnector pipelines, a further 260km of strategic interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Working with multi discipline Teams in order to understand and quantify scope.
• Liaising with supply chain to develop estimates for specific items of scope (both Vendors and subcontractors).
• Utilise both Estimating software and MS Excel to prepare the Estimate.
• Comfortable working with both subcontract and direct delivery.
• Identify best practice
• Advise where efficiencies can be made.
• Develop cost models for those items which are repeated from site to site.
• Work with 3D computer models in order to understand and quantify the scope.
• Add quotations to the Estimating Datatbase.
• Identify any inconsistencies between market quotations and our cost libraries.
• Revise labour, plant and material resource libraries when requested to do so.
• Liaise with Procurement as required (Early engagement where appropriate).
  
  

Qualifications

• Engineering or QS degree or previous relevant estimating experience
• Experience of Estimating within either infrastructure, utilities or process plant.
• Other Estimating experience building services / facilities management etc
• Experience using Estimating Software
• Experience of working with a Main Contractor or Subcontractor on Construction Projects
• Experience of Civil, Mechanical, Electrical or Process Control disciplines
• Willingness to Learn
• Strong numerate, analytical and communication skills
• Excellent Team Player
• Takes personal responsibility for continually improving own knowledge, skills and networks.
• Can work to deadlines
• Computer Literate – excellent MS Office skills (including Estimating Software)
  
  

About Us

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.