Senior Estimating Manager

Description

• Presenting the estimate work to key stakeholders demonstrating a full knowledge and understanding of the project.
• Overseeing the quality assurance of estimates within the project ensuring they are fit for purpose.
• Coordinates and liaises with Clients & Key Stakeholders
• Co-ordinating and working in collaboration with Senior Leadership Team (SLT).
• Manages and influences key/senior stakeholders.
• Managing benchmarking exercises to test the estimate.
• Develops and maintains a series of internal and external stakeholder/colleague relationships.
• Analysing quotations as part of the compilation of the estimate.
• Co-ordinating and working in collaboration with Project peers and leaders.
• Working collaboratively towards the common goal of net zero carbon transition, and share responsibility for the proactive identification and management of the associated carbon emissions and reductions during the delivery of work.
• Development of cost models including (amongst others) indirect costs and prelims.
• Providing senior management and stakeholders with estimating analysis insight, modelling scenarios solutions and options, leveraging commercial knowledge.
• Maintains and manages client/stakeholder at business/project level.
• Leading a team preparing estimates and cost planning for a portfolio and/or projects, adhering to estimating procedures.
• Coordinating measurement exercises, including preparation of schedules of quantities.
• Coordinates and acts as an interface with functional peers.
• Works proactively within bid teams.
• Directs, coordinates and manages others within portfolio area.
• Presenting complex estimating and risk modelling data to stakeholders, interpreting and providing recommendations for both a technical and non-technical audience.
• Accountable for compiling team and preliminaries schedules and collaborating with internal and external teams as and when required.
• Champions the use of new technology.

Requirements

• Understanding & Knowledge of the sector.
• Knowledge and understanding the cost of construction.
• Understanding of Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) & Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
• Expertise in Pure Estimating.
• Proficient in the measurement of building quantities.
• Knowledge of the tender process and the traditional stages.
• Understanding of construction contracts, respective arrangements & measurement rules.
• Advanced excel expertise, Estimating tools and Building Information Modelling (measurement).
• Adapts and responds to change and/or organisational requirements.
• Ability to work independently and to tight timescales to achieve key performance indicators (KPIs) and strategic outcomes.
• Experience of planning and organising work in area.
• Ability to liaise with and influence leadership roles.
• Understanding principals of cash flow.
• Understands the design process and outputs.
• Understanding and expertise of the Procurement market including Public Frameworks.
• Understands the design process.
• An understanding and appreciation of profit and overhead including risk & opportunity management.
• Understanding and knowledge of construction costs.
• Familiar with Sector Method of Measurement.

Benefits

• Safety first - Going home safe and well

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance