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Senior Civils Estimator

The Role

The Senior Estimator produces fully costed, analytical estimates for a range of Actavo civil engineering and utility projects.

This is a highly analytical and collaborative role requiring strong commercial acumen, technical understanding, and stakeholder management. The Senior Estimator is central to the bid lifecycle, from initial RFQ to final handover, playing a vital part in project pricing accuracy, risk management, and profitability.

Responsibilities

• Adhere to and maintain compliance with all Health and Safety procedures within your work. Ensuring you are responsible for yourself and/or team members.
• Upon receipt of a request for quotation analyse all scopes of work, drawings, specifications and client pricing documentation and ensure that they form the basis of bidding.
• Raise technical and commercial queries with Clients and incorporate any responses into the bid.
• Develop detailed first principles estimates for each rate item ensuring that these are fully aligned with the Client’s BOQ requirements.
• Obtain quotations from the market such as from vendors or subcontractors and perform analysis from a technical and commercial viewpoint, interrogating these quotations for scope gaps and variances. Once finalised complete an adjudication and recommendation, including justification for which pricing to include within the bid.
• Consult internally with personnel in other departments including Construction, Commercial, EHS, Quality and Legal to develop the execution strategy, around which the pricing is built.
• Ability to prepare cash flows for projects with minimal guidance.
• Participation in risk reviews.
• Preparation of internal reports detailing the basis of estimate and compilation of presentations for Management review.
• Assist in the compilation of tender submissions as required.
• In post tendering phase liaise with the Client and respond to any requests for clarifications that may arise once the Client has reviewed the Actavo submission.
• Participate in final negotiations with prospective Clients as required.
• Preparation of handover documentation to facilitate a seamless transition from Estimating to Operations.

Requirements

• Educated to degree level/ Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Economics or Quantity Surveying.
• 10 years experience in a similar role.
• Ability to understand specifications, tender documents, technical drawings
• Excellent analytical, numeric and IT skills with good attention to detail.
• Conquest Estimating software would be beneficial but not mandatory.
• Excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills required
• Negotiation and Influencing skills
• Communication
• Project Management and Planning
• Time Management
• Strong customer focus & commitment to quality and procedures
• Self-motivated with the ability to work unsupervised.
• Positive and helpful manner combined with the ability to meet deadlines.
• Good Team player
• Ability to deal confidently with internal and external personnel at all levels.

Benefits:

• Pension plan
• Life assurance – 4 times your annual salary
• Employee assistance programme
• Refer a friend scheme
• Maternity pay
• Employee discounts – on hotels, gyms, electronics and more
• Educational assistance
• Career progression opportunities
• Long Service Awards