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.