Senior Estimator — Costing, Risk & Lifecycle Value

Mott MacDonald; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Flexible benefits

Annual bonus schemes

Employee ownership

Job summary

Mott MacDonald is seeking an Estimator/Senior Estimator to develop high-quality cost estimates across project lifecycles. You will define scope, build cost plans, use varied estimating techniques, and ensure estimates reflect risks, opportunities, and uncertainties.

You will work closely with stakeholders to establish WBS/CBS, manage the cost stack, and support pre/post-mitigation estimates, with governance and sign-off at each stage.

Qualifications

• HNC / HND or degree qualified in an Engineering, Construction Management, or Quantity Surveying discipline or relevant industry experience
• Professional accreditation with AcostE / RICS / CIOB or working towards
• Experience in process heavy sectors such as Water, Energy, Oil and Gas
• Familiarity with estimating packages such as CANDY, CONQUEST, CAUSEWAY, COST OS, COST X
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Responsibilities

• Hold responsibility for cost estimate development through all project stages
• Undertake estimates using first principal bottom-up and parametric top-down methods
• Collaborate with stakeholders to capture the scope of estimating activities
• Establish Work Breakdown and Cost Breakdown Structures using standard measurement methods
• Ensure all components of the cost stack are considered in estimates
• Support risk and opportunities and prepare pre/post-mitigation cost estimates
• Develop contingency calculations within a team environment
• Consider embodied and operational carbon in proposed solutions
• Produce basis of estimate reports communicating assumptions and exclusions
• Ensure governance, quality, and timely delivery of outputs
• Support leadership review and sign-off for all estimates
• Understand project finances and support financial model development

Skills

Estimating

Stakeholder collaboration

Cost planning

First principles estimating

CESMM4/NRM/HWMM

Carbon estimating

TOTEX understanding

Microsoft Office

Education

Engineering/Construction/Quantity Surveying degree

HNC/HND or equivalent

Professional accreditation (ACostE/RICS/CIOB)

Tools

CANDY

CONQUEST

CAUSEWAY

COST OS

COST X

Job description

Mott MacDonald is seeking an Estimator/Senior Estimator to develop high-quality cost estimates across project lifecycles. You will define scope, build cost plans, use varied estimating techniques, and ensure estimates reflect risks, opportunities, and uncertainties.

You will work closely with stakeholders to establish WBS/CBS, manage the cost stack, and support pre/post-mitigation estimates, with governance and sign-off at each stage.