Assistant Benchmarking Estimator

Balfour Beatty plc; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working up to 40% remote

25 days paid annual leave

Family friendly policies incl. 28? 4?2

Pension

Share incentive plan

Volunteering leave

Recognition schemes

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking an Assistant Benchmarking Estimator to join our team. The role focuses on collecting and validating cost, time and carbon data from major infrastructure projects, and integrating benchmarking data into preconstruction and delivery workflows.

You will work with preconstruction and delivery teams to ensure data quality, support automated data collection, and help refine benchmarking processes for more frequent benchmarking cycles across transport and energy sectors.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to analyse cost, time and carbon data from major infrastructure projects.
• Experience in benchmarking, estimating or preconstruction data handling would be beneficial.
• Strong collaboration and communication across teams to ensure data accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Collate cost and production data from projects to generate reliable benchmarks.
• Check and validate benchmarks to ensure consistency with benchmarking structure.
• Capture and record engineering data for assets benchmarked; prepare templates for upload.
• Support automated data collection processes and data structuring improvements.
• Assist preconstruction and delivery teams by providing relevant benchmarking data for estimates and planning.

Skills

Analytical skills

Data interpretation

Engineering/Estimating experience

Communication skills

Job description

About the role

Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group, delivering complex construction and engineering projects that shape how people live, work and travel. With a strong heritage and a reputation for quality, safety and innovation, we operate across the UK, US and Hong Kong, working on major projects in transport, energy, defence and urban development. Balfour Beatty is committed to creating sustainable solutions and leaving lasting positive impacts in the communities it serves, making it an exciting place to build a rewarding career.

We are now seeking an Assistant Benchmarking Estimator to join our team.

The need to capture and utilise robust and real data from our projects, and to use this data as benchmarking support, has been identified as a key tool in managing our pre-construction and delivery outcomes, and in supporting our customers and partners in the development of proposals and the management of change.

The role is to carry out benchmarking on major complex infrastructure projects across the transportation and energy sectors including:

• Collection and aggregation of cost, time and carbon data from projects in preconstruction and delivery to produce consistent, comparable and meaningful benchmarking data
• Work collaboratively with preconstruction and delivery teams to set up and maintain cost, time and carbon data on projects to facilitate benchmarking data collection in the most efficient way

What you'll be doing

Core activities:

• Collation of cost and production data from projects, working with and re-processing raw data where necessary to generate accurate benchmarks that are consistent with the benchmarking structure.
• Checking and validating the benchmarks generated
• Capturing and recording engineering data for all assets benchmarked
• Capturing data on templates and preparing and finalising them in a consistent and structured way to enable upload to the system
• Support the development of more automated data collection processes by working collaboratively with relevant teams to identify solutions to improve data structuring and processing, to facilitate more frequent benchmarking cycles
• Support preconstruction and delivery teams to incorporate benchmark coding in estimates, forecasts, finance and planning systems to enable systematic and periodic harvesting of benchmarking data
• The role will require travel to various project locations to meet teams and work together to collate data, although this is not envisaged to be regular travel

Supporting activities:

• Support preconstruction and project teams in their use of the benchmarking system, and gather feedback and ideas for improvements
• Support preconstruction and delivery teams by providing relevant comparable benchmarks from the system to support their activity

Deliverables & Controls:

• Benchmarking is an essential part of governance, supporting decision-making at bid and preconstruction stages – support preconstruction and project delivery teams to achieve this by providing consistent and accurate data records
• Timely, accurate and useful input to estimating, commercial and optioneering support, by request
• Continual improvement of benchmarking processes and systems through learning and experience; providing recommendations for improvements

Who we're looking for

The following qualities and experience are essential:

• Demonstrable industry experience in a technical role (engineering / estimating) on major infrastructure / civil engineering projects, with an understanding of construction methods, processes and temporary works
• Experience of either bid, preconstruction or construction delivery phases of projects incorporating major, complex civil engineering
• Good interpersonal skills that enable working relationships to be developed at all levels across the business
• Good planning, management and organisation skills
• Demonstrable verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrable analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Team player who is highly committed to achieving results in a collaborative way with others
• Ability to demonstrate passion, commitment and enthusiasm towards common team goals and sharing in successes

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About us

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at [e-mail]