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    Senior Mechanical Estimator - London, United Kingdom - Balfour Beatty

    Balfour Beatty
    Balfour Beatty London, United Kingdom

    1 week ago

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    Permanent
    Description

    About the role

    Our team shape projects that connect communities and impact daily life for millions. Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Senior Mechanical Estimator and build new futures.

    Role Purpose:

  • To be responsible for pricing tender opportunities by implementing estimating strategies on each bid.
  • Lead the bid process to ensure that tender deliverables are produced in a timely and effective manner
  • Lead an Estimating team, including managing the workload and allocation of estimating resource within assigned bid teams.

    • What you'll be doing

    As a Senior Mechanical Estimator , you will have the following accountabilities;

  • Review customers drawings and specifications to prepare accurate costing sheets for materials, labour and equipment
  • Ensure compliance with Balfour Beatty procedures, including pre-construction gate process
  • Review tender documents and submission requirements, ensuring all financial information is identified and provided and accurate compliant design proposals are included
  • Agree with engineering and planning key methods, outputs and plant selection
  • Manage and coordinate the preparation of preliminary and general expense pricing, including plant schedules and risk assessment
  • Prepare tender settlement papers and carry out any belated adjustments as a result of tender settlements
  • Provide bills of allowances as part of the commercial handover meeting
  • Responsibility for sign off of all cost elements prior to any gate meetings or financial submissions
  • Select suitable sub-contractors and specialists for each project
  • Ensure that key specialists are utilised on each bid to optimise: design, specification, programme and value
  • Manage the production of cost information and tender submissions for senior management
  • Provide considered responses to customer questions including post tender queries
  • Ensure that the project commercial team have received an effective handover of bid documentation
  • Manage customer contact, present tender proposals to customers and contribute to customer meetings during the tender process
  • Seek to understand, lead the development of and implement the appropriate digital toolsets to execute cost take-off and other estimating activities, such as 5D cost planning
  • Attend or carry out periodic Tender Health Checks and formal risk reviews to ensure that the identified risks are mitigated as far as possible in tender submissions
  • Ensure that cost planning and estimating are accurate and reflect the project requirements and risk profile
  • Provide mentoring on bids to Estimators and the bid teams, including commercial and technical advice
  • Maintain the company supply chain database/Estimating System with tender information from allocated bids

    • Who we're looking for

    Qualities and experience:

  • Detailed knowledge of high integrity pipework systems & knowledge of Exotic pipework materials
  • Experience of tendering projects in the Petro chemical, nuclear or regulated environments
  • Undertaking of NAECI Labour agreements
  • Experience of pricing and developing customer MTOs
  • Previous experience of managing the process of estimating projects, within the construction industry is required along with a valid CSCS card.
  • Membership of a relevant professional body and/or relevant professional qualification is desirable, such as RICS/CIOB/RIBA/ICE/CIBSE.
  • Working knowledge of best practice solutions and optimisation of innovative ideas and an understanding of the principles of Lean Construction and 5D cost planning is desirable.
  • An understanding of BIM and how to read and assemble BIM models and produce appropriate reports from them is desirable.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills are required, coupled with an ability to form effective relationships with partners under time pressure.
  • Experience of leading a team is desirable.
  • A desire to continuously pursue innovation and development, with a focus on the customer and the business is required. Proficiency in IT, numeracy and MS Office Basic & Estimating Systems is essential.

    • Why work for us

    Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UKs most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

    Why join us?

    As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasnt rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package thats right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

    Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
    - 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
    - Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
    - Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

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