Senior Cost Planner

6 days ago

Motherwell, United Kingdom Balfour Beatty Full time

**About the role**
Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. They’re an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise.

Join our Regional** **team as a **Senior Cost Planner** and you’ll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you.
**What you'll be doing**
As a Senior Cost Planner, you will have the following accountabilities:

- From prior knowledge and experience and utilising the supply chain and design information build up a cost plan for agreement with the Customer and their project team
- Work with the project commercial staff develop a suitable works package procurement, margin, and risk strategy at all stages of the bid.
- Produce appropriately detailed cost estimates and reports for all works packages set against specific scopes of work for agreement, with the Customer.
- Work in consort with the project controls and planning staff, prepare schedules and presentation material in support of project work package cost estimates and overall project Target Cost
- Lead the Estimating team, including managing the workload and allocation of estimating resource within assigned bid teams. Undertake the role of Estimator on projects, where required
- Oversee and/or interrogate design options and ‘value’ solutions, and if appropriate, identify the attractiveness of a project based on sound cost planning and estimating principles. Activities to include:

- Ensure compliance with Balfour Beatty CSUK procedures, including pre-construction gate process
- Review tender documents and submission requirements, ensuring all financial information is identified and provided and accurate compliant design proposals are included
- Review customer’s drawings and specifications to prepare an accurate estimate including breakdowns for materials, labour, equipment, and plant.
- Agree with engineering and planning key methods, outputs and plant selection
- Prepare detailed subcontractor / work package analysis
- Manage and coordinate the preparation of preliminary and general expense pricing, including plant schedules and risk assessment
- Prepare tender settlement papers and carry out any belated adjustments as a result of tender settlements
- Responsibility for ‘sign off’ of all cost elements prior to any gate meetings or financial submissions
- Ensure that key specialists are utilised on each bid to optimise:design, specification, programme and value
- Manage the production of cost information and tender submissions for senior management
- Provide considered responses to customer questions including post tender queries
- Ensure that the project commercial team have received an effective handover of bid documentation
- Manage customer contact, present tender proposals to customers and contribute to customer meetings during the tender process
- Be able to work in a digital environment and assist in the development our strategy e.g. 5D cost planning
- Attend or carry out periodic Tender Health Checks and formal risk reviews to ensure that the identified risks are mitigated as far as possible in tender submissions
- Ensure that cost planning and estimating are accurate and reflect the project requirements and risk profile
- Provide mentoring on bids to Estimators and the bid teams, including commercial and technical advice
- Maintain the company supply chain database/Estimating System with tender information from allocated bids
- Carry out measurement and take-offs, pricing and entering the system

**Who we're looking for**
You will have the following:

- Previous experience of managing the process of estimating projects, within the construction industry is required along with a valid CSCS card.
- Membership of a relevant professional body and/or relevant professional qualification is desirable, such as RICS/CIOB/RIBA/ICE/CIBSE.
- Working knowledge of best practice solutions and optimisation of innovative ideas and an understanding of the principles of Lean Construction and 5D cost planning is desirable.
- An understanding of BIM and how to read and assemble BIM models and produce appropriate reports from them is desirable.
- Good working knowledge of pricing and quantification methods is required.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills are required, coupled with an ability to form effective relationships with partners under time pressure.
- Proficiency in IT, numeracy and MS Office Basic & Estimating systems is essential.
- Experience of leading a team is desirable. Able to be a strong team player, as well as work on their own initiative.
- A desire to continuously pursue innovation and development, with a focus on the customer and the business is required.

**Why work for us**
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.
**About us**
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