Senior Estimator

1 month ago


Scotland, United Kingdom Royal BAM Group Full time

**Building a sustainable tomorrow**

We are recruiting for a Senior Estimator within our preconstruction team in Scotland. As well as preparing and presenting cost estimates for a range of civil engineering tenders, the roles involve co-ordination with the bid team including our designers and joint venture partners.

**Your mission**

As a Senior Estimator, you will be responsible for the following:

- Co-ordinate with bid teams, colleagues in the estimating department and in the wider Pre-construction team
- Give direction to estimating administrative staff
- Manage and deliver cost estimates at various stages in scheme development, scope definition and design maturity to meet challenging timescales, including multiple iterations of budget and target prices
- Contribute to optioneering and feasibility assessments, value engineering proposals, liaising with bid and project teams representing a range of disciplines to develop and refine proposals and budget costs through to final target price estimates
- Liaise with clients, designers and other consultants, quantity surveyors and other third parties
- Organise and administer tender documents, correspondence, enquiries and quotations
- Challenge and contribute to all aspects of the bid preparation and submission and investigate safe and cost-effective solutions
- Collect and distribute feedback and maintain awareness of latest techniques
- Prepare cost estimates from first principles using proprietary estimating software
- Organise and participate in bid preparation and review meetings
- Prepare tender summary information and priced risk and opportunity registers
- Prepare and communicate estimate information for bid review meetings and for handover to project teams
- Comply with company procedures

**Who are we looking for?**

**Essential**:

- Site experience of civil engineering to at least sub agent level
- Commercial awareness including familiarity with NEC forms of contract
- Well-organised with effective IT skills
- Good written and verbal communication skills

**Desirable**:

- Able to lead all aspects of selected bids including quality submission and supply chain relationships
- Experience of HVAC substations and / or HVDC converter stations
- Competent user of estimating software (preferably Candy)
- Competence in digital take-off and 5D

**What’s in it for you?**

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes company car / allowance, matched pension contributions, private healthcare, life assurance, 26 days holiday, 2 wellbeing days and 1 volunteering day. In addition to an attractive salary and benefits package, we support further personal, professional, technical and leadership development.

BAM Nuttall is also committed to equality of opportunity in all its employment practices, and to developing policies that support work-life balance.

**Who are we?**

The art of building is about building for communities; it’s about building for life.

Where others stop, we go further, leading the way towards a sustainable tomorrow for us and future generations. As an industry leader, we raise the bar.

Our values: sustainable, inclusive, collaborative, reliable and ownership, enable us to achieve our ambitions. Today, tomorrow and every day.

**Our recruitment process**

BAM is committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at anytime you feel you may need any reasonable adjustments, do not hesitate to speak with one of our team, and we will do our best to support you.


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