Senior Estimator (Civils)

KIER GROUP; Crawley; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group is seeking a Senior Estimator to join their Natural Resources Team, focusing on Civils. This role involves estimating duties for the Southern Water framework, requiring strong organizational skills and a proven track record in managing tenders. The position offers flexible working arrangements and a variety of benefits tailored to individual needs.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Wide variety of benefits

Qualifications

• Proven track record of delivering tenders/pricing of varying size/complexity.
• Experience in pre-construction phase to identify risks and opportunities.
• Excellent understanding of client requirements.

Responsibilities

• Input into pre-construction phase including early contractor involvement.
• Prepare multi-discipline tender pricing from budgets to lump sums.
• Attend review meetings and site visits to ascertain project requirements.

Skills

Organisational Skills

Planning Skills

Commercial Awareness

Job description

Senior Estimator (Civils)

We're looking for a Senior Estimator to join our Natural Resources Team, with a focus on Civils you'll cover estimating duties on our new Southern Water framework.

Location : With remote working, you'll also be able to travel to client sites and offices across the Southern Water contract.

Contract : Permanent, Full Time – flexible and part time hours may be available if desired, just let us know

What are my responsibilities in this role?

As a Civils Senior Estimator you'll work closely with other members of our framework delivery team and the Client, to deliver value for money solutions for the Civils elements of work in line with framework requirements.

Your day to day will include:

• Input into all aspects of the pre-construction phase of projects, including early contractor involvement and carrying out pre-work prior to tenders arriving.
• Preparing multi-discipline tender pricing with the ability to produce differing levels of pricing, from top-down budgets to bottom-up lump sums or targets.
• Read and understand client specifications and drawings whilst considering site safety, health, quality and environmental issues.
• Attend internal and external review and progress meetings as well as site visits/meetings.
• Ascertain preliminary and detailed project requirements and solutions, including programmes and value engineering solutions, with identification of risk and opportunities.

What are we looking for?

In this role as a Senior Estimator it will be great for you if you have:

• A proven track record of successfully delivering tenders/pricing of varying size/complexity and an ability to manage a portfolio of projects in a framework environment.
• Experience of the pre-construction phase of projects to quickly identify risks and opportunities.
• Excellent organisational and planning skills with a good understanding of clients requirements and general commercial awareness.
  

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

If you would like to explore more about the incredible growth and scale of our water business, dive into our diverse project portfolios, and uncover both current and future career opportunities. You can see more information about our water business here.

There's never been a better time to get involved, register your interest today and take the first step toward a rewarding career with us!

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

Documents

• SW Snr Civils Est Job Description M2.pdf (41.55 KB)

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