Senior Estimator – Hybrid, Costing & Data Lead

Thames Water Utilities Limited; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 26 days

Pension scheme via AON

Employee benefits

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

Thames Water Utilities Limited in Reading is seeking a Lead Estimator to develop bottom-up estimates and manage cost data for project scoping and budgeting. You will review requirements, approve costs, and help shape a new estimating database to enhance capability across the team.

The role demands extensive estimating experience in engineering/water/construction, strong leadership, and meticulous time management to meet tight deadlines.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in estimating is essential, along with previous experience within either an engineering, water or construction industry role.
• Exceptional team player and able to lead projects when required.
• Excellent time management with the ability to work to tight deadlines.
• High attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Create bottom-up estimates when system costings aren’t available.
• Review of scope requirements for errors/inconsistencies and/or seek clarifications or additional information from the relevant designer team.
• Review and approve costs for all Estimates before submitting the final costing template to key stakeholders.
• Lead the process of developing a new bottom-up estimating database to improve our internal estimating capabilities.
• Review contractor returns, create or update standardised bottom-up estimate templates for future use by the wider Estimating team.
• Provide support and training to junior members of the team on the end-to-end process, supporting the system and providing any costing advice as deemed necessary.
• Proactively identify further opportunities to improve the end-to-end process.
• Ensure all stakeholders are actively engaged to meet agreed KPIs.

Skills

Estimating experience

Team leadership

Time management

Detail oriented

Tools

Benchmark

Job description

Thames Water Utilities Limited in Reading is seeking a Lead Estimator to develop bottom-up estimates and manage cost data for project scoping and budgeting. You will review requirements, approve costs, and help shape a new estimating database to enhance capability across the team.

The role demands extensive estimating experience in engineering/water/construction, strong leadership, and meticulous time management to meet tight deadlines.