Job Description

Job Description

Senior Estimator

Remote with occasional travel

Estimator and Senior Estimator required for a major consultancy.

Key Tasks:

- Hold responsibility for cost estimate development through all stages of project and programme lifecycles, from concept stage through to delivery and handover.

- Undertake estimates using various techniques including first principal bottom-up, and parametric top-down methods.

- Collaborate with stakeholders to identify, capture, and record the scope of the estimating activities.

- Establish Work Breakdown and Cost Breakdown Structures ensuring all scope elements captured and recorded using industry standard methods of measurement such as CESMM4, NRM, RMM, HWMM.

- Ensure all elements of the 'cost stack' including, escalation, land and property, administration, direct costs, indirect costs, and temporary works are considered in the estimate.

Candidate Specification:

- Experience in either water, utilities, rail, construction or power

- HNC / HND or degree qualified in an Engineering, Construction Management, or Quantity Surveying discipline or relevant industry experience.

- Professional accreditation with AcostE / RICS / CIOB or working towards

- Familiarity with the application of estimating packages such as CANDY, CONQUEST, CAUSEWAY, COST OS, COST X etc.

- Working knowledge and demonstrable experience in the use and application of the Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.

- Extensive experience of working in infrastructure projects, with the ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with clients and colleagues