Cost Estimator - Yeovil, United Kingdom - Defence Equipment & Support

Defence Equipment & Support
Defence Equipment & Support
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Yeovil, United Kingdom

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Cost Estimator

Salary:
£39,500 - £42,500 pa (plus generous benefits)


Location:
Yeovil, Somerset


Contract type:
Permanent


Working pattern:
Full time, Part time, Job Share, Flexible Working


Are you experienced in generating cost estimates for projects? Are you looking to progress your career whilst supporting our UK's armed forces? We may have the perfect opportunity for you At Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) are looking for a Cost Estimator to join in delivering the exciting projects we are working on and you could be the person we are looking for.


Cost Estimating is a vital part of what we do, ensuring the delivery of significant projects to our customers, on budget and on time.


We have a fantastic opportunity for you within DE&S, working in a well-established team of Cost Estimators and Cost Engineers.

You will have full support in the role, access to training opportunities and a commitment to developing your career.

This is your chance to become an integral member of a recognised high-performing and talented team, having delivered over seventy individual estimates in support of projects across the Land domain in the past year.


Working within Defence Munitions your day-to-day role will involve a diverse range of tasks including reviewing and producing estimates supporting Ministry of Defence (MoD) decisions, estimating the costs for work carried out by Defence Munitions in support of external customers (government and non-government), internal/industry modelling, and the possibility of leading a small team.

You will also find yourself building, reviewing, and populating cost models, along with undertaking cost risk/business analysis.


You will lead the cost estimating or cost modelling for medium to higher value or complexity projects, supporting business case development and investment decisions, options appraisal, and contributing to regular reviews of programme costs.

You will also act as a Cost Estimating Subject Matter Expert (SME) providing guidance to projects and support services.


We operate a hybrid working environment and the expectation is to attend the Yeovil site for a minimum of one day per week, however this will depend on business need.

There is also the opportunity for occasional regional travel to other Defence Munitions & DE&S sites, dependent on business needs.


Whilst this advert is specifically for a role within Defence Munitions, DE&S offers rich and diverse career paths and there is the opportunity to be deployed in our Helicopters teams as well as other project teams across the Enterprise.


Responsibilities

  • Lead on delivering and assuring estimating products for high value projects utilising a range of estimating tools, techniques and methodologies.
  • Lead on estimating the cost of Defence Munitions services utilised by external customers (government and nongovernment)
  • Independently deliver complex cost estimates using a range of mandated Cost Models.
  • Identify cost trends and insight at strategic level to support portfolio management activities, business change initiatives, and provide senior staff with intelligence and analysis to support decision making.
  • Analyse data from sources across Defence international partners and its suppliers to support benchmarking and production of robust complex cost models.
  • Train and develop team members in estimating to aid cost estimating understanding amongst stakeholders.
  • Assist with the scoping of model requirements and provide Subject Matter Expert (SME) modelling expertise including establishment and maintenance of relationships across stakeholder groups.
  • Communicate estimate and complex risk modelling data to key members of the project, programme and DE&S leadership in a way that is easy to interpret and understand.

Person specification

  • Experience generating cost estimates for projects and service provision
  • Experience generating supporting documentation and artefacts such as the 'Basis of Estimate'.
  • Experience of assuring/ensuring quality of outputs.
  • Knowledge of analysis tools and techniques such as Excel.
It would also be great if you can demonstrate any of the following desirable criteria:

  • Experience of broader project delivery discipline (cost engineering, risk management, planning & scheduling, cost control etc).
In addition to the responsibilities above, the following technical competences and behaviours will be assessed at interview:

  • Controlling a project (Practitioner)
  • Estimating (Practitioner)
  • Changing and Improving
  • Leadership

Benefits

  • 25 days' annual leave +1 day a year up to 30 days, 8 bank holidays and a day off for the King's birthday
  • Flexible and hybrid working wherever possible, to support your worklife balance (though some attendance to the stated site is required)
  • Marketleading employer pension contribution of around 27%
  • Annual performancebased bonus and recognition awards
  • Access to specialist training and funded prof
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