Lead Estimator

Description

• Present comprehensive cost estimates to senior management, providing professional assessments of estimate accuracy and recommendations on appropriate contingency levels.
• Lead and manage a team of Estimators and Quantity Surveyors, coordinating cost estimate inputs from Business Development Managers, Technical Development Managers, and other stakeholders across 50-100 opportunities per year converting to £50m annually.
• Balance customer expectations and competitive pricing with realistic cost estimates to ensure new business is secured while maintaining high certainty of successful project delivery.
• Determine and implement the most appropriate cost estimation strategies for each project opportunity, planning estimates and either completing them directly or providing oversight to others.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with key supply chain partners to support the estimating process and ensure optimal solutions for customers.
• Lead all cost estimation activities for the Energy Projects Development Team and serve as the subject matter expert for cost estimation across the wider IWE Projects Delivery Team.

Requirements

• Strong relationship management and communication skills, including experience presenting cost estimates to senior management and maintaining strategic relationships with supply chain partners.
• Experience of working as part of multi-disciplinary teams with demonstrated leadership capabilities in managing Estimators, Quantity Surveyors, and coordinating inputs from Business Development Managers and Technical Development Managers across multiple concurrent opportunities.
• Proven experience of engineering and construction project capital cost estimating, ideally in the energy sector, with demonstrated ability to ensure successful project development and delivery phases.
• Advanced business acumen and financial management skills, with the ability to balance customer expectations and competitive pricing against realistic cost estimates to secure new business while maintaining project delivery certainty.

Benefits

• Access to a range of resources to support your physical, mental and financial health; so you can lean on us whenever you need to
• Ongoing training and development opportunities, allowing you to reach your full potential
• Access to our company pension scheme
• Discounts on everything from groceries to well known retailers
• One paid days leave every year to volunteer and support your community
• 24 hour access to a virtual GP, 365 days a year, for you and family members in your household

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance