Bid Lead

About The Role
Job Title:
Bid Lead

Location:
Derby, Manchester, Leeds or Newcastle

Project Type:
Pre-construction (Work Winning)

Company:
Balvac

About Us
Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure and construction group. We finance, develop, build, and maintain innovative and efficient projects that underpin daily life, support communities, and enable economic growth. Our unparalleled expertise and resources ensure that we deliver high-quality projects safely, on time, and within budget.

Now is a great time to join us. As a leading international construction group with a healthy pipeline of work, we're growing our teams. Shape a career to be proud of as part of an award-winning team.

Our team shapes projects that connect communities and impact daily life for millions. Join our team as a
Bid Lead (Estimator)
to build new futures.

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our well-established construction teams working on our significant future pipeline of projects, you will work with true experts who will share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement, and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning.

Bring us your capability, and we'll help you take it much, much further.

What you'll be doing

As a
Bid Lead (Estimator)
you will have the following accountabilities:

• Lead the pre-construction process and secure projects via work winning.
• Work closely with existing customers and form new strategic customer relationships.
• Undertake buildability reviews and determine project strategy.
• Lead and/or support Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) projects.
• Review enquiries, technical documents, and specifications.
• Develop pre-construction strategies and delivery programmes.
• Manage and coordinate input from clients, designers, subcontractors, and in-house teams.
• Identify and mitigate project risks, maintaining a pre-construction risk register.
• Prepare project estimates, pricing documents, and manage subcontract enquiries.
• Deliver internal presentations and support governance processes.
• Handover successful bids to operational and commercial teams, and follow up with clients post-submission.

Who we're looking for

• Self-motivated, disciplined, and able to work both remotely and collaboratively.
• Excellent numeracy, writing, and communication skills.
• Confident liaising at all levels, internally and externally.
• Team player, willing to support colleagues to meet deadlines.
• Understanding of the New Engineering Contract (NEC) is essential.
• Knowledge of standards, specifications, and construction techniques in structural repair and maintenance is advantageous.
• Experience with CANDY estimating software and Jaggaer procurement system is a plus.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office; Microsoft Project experience desirable.

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.

Balvac is a leading specialist contractor in structural repair, strengthening and refurbishment , and part of the Balfour Beatty Group. As a trusted expert Balvac sustainably extends the life of our nation's infrastructure by delivering innovative structural repair, strengthening, protection and maintenance solutions to return our customers assets to full capacity and extend their working life.

About Us
Operating in the transport, energy, and power sectors with a focus on highway infrastructure, our expert capabilities extend the life of existing civil and building infrastructure across the UK. We implement a 'Detect, Diagnose, Develop, Deliver' approach offering a complete professional service from scheme development and design through to project delivery. These include structural concrete repair, crack injection, leak sealing injection, structural strengthening including the use of FRP composite materials, corrosion protection and cathodic protection, bridge bearing replacement, concrete carriageway rehabilitation using vacuum assisted void grouting and slab realignment techniques. We also undertake testing, inspection and structural health monitoring, pile testing and noise, vibration and air quality monitoring.

Our ambition is to create an exciting platform for career development through diverse and challenging civil engineering infrastructure projects, expanding our industry leading specialist expertise, and creating the next generation of experts.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full