Senior Estimator

Description

• Produce clear, structured cost breakdowns for internal review and client presentations.
• Manage pricing and scope analysis for packages including scaffolding, piling, RC frame, basements and temporary works.
• Step into a senior role within the pre-construction team during the transition period.
• Support and mentor junior estimators where required.
• Compare, rationalise and negotiate subcontractor prices.
• Present tender submissions and respond confidently to commercial or technical questions.
• Maintain clear documentation and pricing audit trails.
• Identify scope gaps, clarifications and commercial or technical risks.
• Deliver tenders within typical 4-week cycles, managing up to 10 tenders per month.
• Support bid strategy development, including value engineering opportunities.
• Interrogate drawings and specifications to ensure accuracy of pricing.
• Take responsibility for tender ownership and task allocation.
• Lead or support pricing for RC frame, groundworks, basement and temporary works packages.
• Build and manage pricing spreadsheets, including collating and analysing subcontractor quotations.
• Challenge incomplete tender information and proactively request missing details.
• Attend and contribute to client meetings, explaining pricing rationale and cost drivers.
• Maintain strong organisation, communication and commercial standards.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of slipform, jumpform, basement works, temporary works and concrete structures.
• Professional presence suitable for client meetings and presentations.
• Confident in client-facing communication and commercial discussions.
• Ability to discuss methodology, buildability and sequencing at a pre-construction level.
• Commercially aware with a strong pre-construction mindset.
• Strong Excel and pricing competency.
• Experience as a QS or Estimator within civils, RC frame, groundworks or structural concrete.

The role is suited to a commercially minded QS/Estimator who can confidently engage with clients, present pricing, challenge assumptions and operate effectively in a fast-paced tendering environment. This is not a traditional site QS role, it is fully pre-construction focused, covering tendering, pricing, scope interrogation and package management.

• Proven ability to price RC frame and groundworks packages, someone who understands concrete
• Confident, articulate communicator as this is a client facing role.

Experience Required

• No requirement for daily site presence.
• Organised, proactive and able to take ownership of workload.

Senior Estimator / Estimator – Pre-Construction Commercial

• Comfortable challenging assumptions and asking open questions.

Benefits

Senior Estimator: £70,000 – £85,000

Training + Development

Interview process

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