Senior Estimator

**Senior Estimator**

**Location: Midlands / Oxfordshire / Bucks**

**About us**:
**Would you like to work for one of the **_most successful and secure_** companies within the UK Infrastructure industry with a vision to be a market leader across all of the sectors in which we operate?**

**_ Morgan Sindall_** provides national infrastructure services to private and public sector customers across a comprehensive range of markets. While we are best known as engineering experts, working in sectors as diverse as nuclear, rail, water, energy, highways, and aviation, our UK wide business provides a wealth of different support function roles within human resources, commercial, IT, innovation, design, work winning / business development, safety, health, environment and quality (SHEQ), communications, procurement, and finance.

With **_talented people as the key to our success_** we operate a culture whereby personal and professional development are at the forefront of our efforts to attract and retain the best people in the industry. We are a community of diverse individuals with shared goals and a strong, supportive, and inclusive culture. Collectively, our people play an invaluable role in shaping the UK’s infrastructure and contributing to our long-term sustainable growth.

**We are looking for people to join our team who not only have relevant qualifications and skills, but who understand and value our culture of pride and connection.**

Read more about our Highways work here

**Opportunity**:
**We have a fantastic opportunity within our Highways business unit for an ambitious and talented Senior Estimator.**

**The Senior Estimator will have experience in using CCS/Candy estimating software. A civil engineering estimating background from a main Tier 1 Contractor is essential for this position.**

The Senior Estimator will support the pre-construction team for preparing tenders to secure projects, in particular competitive design and build tenders for both new build and refurbishment projects including liaising with planners, design managers and preconstruction managers to deliver innovative solution.

**The person**:

- Qualified to HNC standard as a minimum
- Ability to take-off quantities
- Proficiency using Conquest estimating software
- Creating Excel reports
- Cost planning knowledge and experience
- An understanding of construction technology and innovative techniques

**About the Highways Team**:
The UK’s strategic and local road infrastructure is a vital asset for communities and businesses, supporting economic prosperity and social connectivity.

As a major tier 1 contractor and framework partner, we play a key role in providing multi-faceted engineering services to keep these vital arteries running, ensuring smoother, safer, less congested journeys for everyone.

Our teams work on complex, high-profile national motorways, trunk road schemes as well as local authority road networks to deliver comprehensive, integrated services including design and build. These infrastructure solutions are enhanced by our complementary tunnelling and bridge design and build capabilities.

Whether working on Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) schemes or construct only works, we always endeavour to share best practice and deliver progressive solutions by engaging as early as possible with our customers to maximise innovation, efficiency, and cost savings.

**Driving improvement across our road network**
- Delivering projects to improve road journeys for millions of people every day
- Providing improved and new access to areas for development and employment opportunities, promoting economic growth
- Implementing hard shoulder running (HSR) and introducing smart motorway technology to give reduced vehicle emissions, increased journey time reliability and cost savings of around 40 per cent compared with conventional schemes.
- Morgan Sindall is an equal opportunities employer and has been accredited with the Positive About Disabled People ‘Two Ticks’ accreditation. We are also an Investors in People company._
- Morgan Sindall is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK._