Senior Estimator: Lead Tender Strategy & Value Engineering

Lynx Employment Services Ltd; South Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days annual leave

Salary sacrifice pension

Life assurance

Cycle to Work

Employee discounts and rewards

Health and wellbeing support

Financial and life-management support

Training and e-learning opportunities

Job summary

Lynx Employment Services Ltd is recruiting an experienced Senior Estimator on behalf of a major construction business with a presence across the North West and based in Sheffield. The role demands ownership of complex tenders, bid strategies, and robust estimating across a varied project portfolio.

The successful candidate will work with bid, commercial and procurement teams, identify risks, challenge costs, and develop value-engineering opportunities while mentoring junior estimators.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 15 years' experience in the construction sector.
• Significant experience in estimating or pre-construction.
• Experience across a variety of construction projects and contract values.
• Strong knowledge of first-principles estimating.
• Excellent understanding of subcontractor, supplier, labour, plant and material costs.
• Experience of tendering, bid strategy and tender adjudication.
• Strong commercial awareness with ability to identify risk and opportunity.
• Experience of value engineering.
• Ability to support and mentor less experienced estimators.

Responsibilities

• Review tender enquiries and develop competitive bid strategies.
• Produce detailed nett cost estimates for traditional and non-traditional construction bids.
• Complete accurate quantity take-offs.
• Prepare first-principles estimates covering labour, plant and materials.
• Issue and review subcontractor and supplier enquiries.
• Analyse and challenge supply-chain quotations to ensure best value.
• Work with procurement to obtain competitive material pricing.
• Identify value-engineering opportunities.
• Assess commercial and operational risks within tender submissions.
• Attend client meetings and tender interviews as required.
• Produce benchmarking information to support future bids.
• Mentor junior members of the estimating team.

Skills

15+ years exp

Estimating / pre-construction

First-principles estimating

Tendering & bid strategy

Mentoring junior estimators

Job description

Lynx Employment Services Ltd is recruiting an experienced Senior Estimator on behalf of a major construction business with a presence across the North West and based in Sheffield. The role demands ownership of complex tenders, bid strategies, and robust estimating across a varied project portfolio.

The successful candidate will work with bid, commercial and procurement teams, identify risks, challenge costs, and develop value-engineering opportunities while mentoring junior estimators.