Costing Estimators

4 weeks ago

Reading, United Kingdom Ministry of Defence Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 298066**Salary**:

- £41,000- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Head Office & Corporate Services - Cost Assurance and Analysis Service (CAAS)**Type of role**:

- Corporate Finance**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time, Compressed Hours**Number of jobs available**:

- 3Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Stoke Gifford, South West England, BS34 8JH : Tadley, South East England, RG7 4PR : City of Westminster, London (region), SW1A 2HBAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Are you passionate about supporting the Defence of the UK? Do you want a stimulating role, offering great development opportunities and the chance to make a real difference? If so, CAAS could have the ideal career for you A career with us offers stability, professional development, and the chance to work across a complete range of Defence projects that no other department experiences due to our privileged access to major programmes and projects.

We are currently recruiting Cost Management professionals with posts offered at various CAAS locations. These roles offer opportunities to work at the cutting edge of analysis with high profile stakeholders, including unique access to critical programmes and emerging military technology across the fascinating world of UK Defence, its allies and partners. We have the privilege to help secure the nation and protect its interests through leading cost management for MOD.

We also offer a great work-life balance in addition to an array of other benefits that come with being a member of the Civil Service. This is a genuinely exciting time to join the Ministry of Defence if you want to be at the heart of real Defence issues.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

**Job description**:
We are recruiting for Cost Estimators within the CAAS Nuclear Team with posts offered at various CAAS locations. CAAS Nuclear is responsible for the delivery of a Cost Management Improvement Partnership (CMIP) across the Defence Nuclear Organisation (DNO) and Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE). This is an exciting opportunity to help improve skills within estimating across these organisations.

The Cost Estimator role is responsible for Cost Estimating/Cost Modelling activities within the CAAS Nuclear cost management environment and will lead, supervise, and assure the preparation of cost estimates and the development of cost models.

As a Cost Estimating Senior Executive Officer (SEO), you will be an estimating lead across the CMIP. You will provide Subject Matter Expert (SME) advice and guidance on Cost Estimating, ensuring improvement in robust quality estimates and helping to upskill our DNO customers to inform decision making by senior management.

**Person specification**:
As an SEO Cost Estimator, your activities will include but are not limited to:

- A line manager to potential Higher Executive Officer (HEO) staff and possibly Placement Line Manager to members of the Estimating Capability Development Scheme (ECDS). You will be managing and assuring tasks, providing on-the-shoulder upskilling and leadership to build high performing teams across DNO and AWE.
- Championing the development of the cost estimating function and actively participating in functional events to aid the advancement of the function, the team and personal development.
- An independent assurer, providing technical and independent challenge to Cost Estimating approaches and/or outputs to determine the robustness of the estimate, identifying issues and providing credible observations and recommendations for improvement.
- A technical lead, responsible for representing CAAS to provide technical expertise and share Cost Estimating knowledge and experience

To be successful in these roles, in person you will be:

- A confident and effective communicator (both verbal and written) being able to tailor key messages according to your audience.
- Have an eye for detail when working across large scales of data and being able to present complex findings and informed decisions.
- A team player collaborating with different peer and stakeholder groups.
- Proactive and take full responsibility for your portfolio.
- Ambitious and driven to work autonomously.
- Open and comfortable contributing innovative ideas.

**Essential Criteria**:

- A proven track record and experience of cost estimating and analysis on a range of complex projects.
- Relevant experience in leading and assuring cost estimates on projects/programmes.
- Experience in presenting technical results and briefing recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- Experience of line management or managing a delivery team.
- Proficient in the use of Excel to analyse data.

**Desirable Criteria**:

- International Cost Estimating & Analysis Association (PCEA or hig

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