Senior Estimator

Description

• Collect and distribute feedback and maintain awareness of the latest techniques
• Contribute to optioneering and feasibility assessments, value engineering proposals, liaise with bid and project teams representing a range of disciplines to develop and refine proposals and budget costs through to final target price estimates
• Co Comply with the Company and Group bid governance procedures.
• Organise and participate in bid preparation and review meetings
• Support the ECI project teams in preparing project budget costs, advising on value engineering and efficiencies and production of the Construction Target cost.
• Liaise with clients, designers and other consultants, quantity surveyors and other third parties
• Challenge and contribute to all aspects of the bid preparation and submission and investigate safe and cost-effective solutions
• Organise and administer tender documents, correspondence, enquiries and quotations
• Coordinate with bid teams, colleagues in the estimating department, the wider Pre-construction team and ECI project teams
• Manage and deliver cost estimates at various stages in scheme development, scope definition and design maturity to meet challenging timescales, including multiple iterations of budget and target prices
• Prepare cost estimates from first principles using Candy estimating software
• Prepare tender summary information and price risk and opportunity registers
• Prepare and communicate estimated information for bid review meetings and for handover to project teams

Requirements

• Demonstrable understanding of common forms of contract
• Suitable civil engineering project experience in management, engineering or commercial roles
• Degree, HND in Civil Engineering or NVQ equivalent level
• Should demonstrate leadership and management skills and have experience of managing a team to achieve deadlines
• Proven estimating experience in civil engineering bids

Benefits

• Company car/car allowance/travel allowance
• Personal and professional development
• Competitive salary
• 8 % matched pension contributions
• 2 wellbeing days
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• 26 days holiday
• Considerable variety in types of work and disciplines priced, with understanding of methods and typical production rates/outputs
• 1 volunteering day
• You will be based in either our Newcastle or Leeds office, but there will be a hybrid working model, including the opportunity for flexible working hours, allowing you to mix working from home or the office, together with visits to our project sites, client offices and our design partners offices.
• BAM operates a flexible working policy

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance