Associate Director Estimating & Cost Advisory

Become a vital member of our Complex Projects Delivery Partners team proudly taking on some of the worlds most exciting and prestigious projects. Join us and youll be part of our genuinely collaborative environment where everyone is supported to make the most of their talents. Its about recognising everyones contributions equally while delivering excellence together.

When you join us as a leader in our Estimating & Cost Advisory practice youll be joining a team which has the industrys foremost capabilities with a reputation for providing the highest quality deliverables.

Enjoy a diverse and exciting workload surrounded by talented colleagues ready to lend a hand. Youll be supporting multi-disciplinary and specialist project teams on niche and high-profile schemes across a range of sectors and key addition youll have the opportunity to develop your own skills alongside our internal capabilities within the wider practice.

We are looking to hire an Associate Director to support our growing Complex Projects we work across major markets such as:

• Infrastructure (Water Defence Aviation etc.)
• Transport (Rail Highways Local Authorities etc.)
• Energy (Nuclear Renewable Energy Power etc.)

• Lead estimating service delivery focusing on leading estimates from feasibility through to completion.
• Work across projects of different types and sectors. With estimates ranging high-level order of magnitude costs to producing first principal bottom-up estimates.
• Demonstrate and utilise an advanced understanding of the typical methods of measurements and have the ability to complete full take-off independently whilst providing support to colleagues where required.
• Have the ability to deliver high-quality client outputs ranging from estimating direct and indirect costs to and assuring estimates provided by others.
• Lead on peer review of outputs from other team members to support continuous improvement. And provide guidance to more junior colleagues in support of their growth and experience.
• Have the ability to independently author basis-of-estimate documents.
• Demonstrate proficiency and understanding of estimating specific software and generic office applications.
• Be able to utilise client market and in house benchmarking data to independently form and assess estimates.
• Lead internal review and quality assurance processes for client deliverables.
• Have strong stakeholder management skills being able to manage and communicate complex issues in a straightforward format to achieve positive resolutions.
• Be a subject matter expert within our wider team to incorporate the best knowledge and information possible into client deliverables.
• Lead the connection with the wider team and leadership in our Estimating & Cost Advisory practice.
• Take a leading role in support of win work activities (bids proposals etc.) to grow our portfolio.
• Provide team input to continuously improve the quality of our deliverables to clients.
• Support the development of a high performing practice team.

• Bachelors degree in an Estimating Quantity Surveying Engineering Construction sectors or Equivalent Work Experience.
• Desirable professional memberships or working towards Chartership RICS ICE AACE ACostE or similar.
• A strong understanding of typical approaches to applying contingency and risk allowances
• Wider understanding of commercial and contractual requirements and the crossover to the impact on estimating or forecasting costs.
• Deep knowledge of indirect costs cost breakdown structures and techniques to analyse and assess project deliverability
• Stakeholder engagement skills including being able to work seamlessly with designers engineers project managers and clients
• A clear understanding of the role of consultancy organisations on projects including the ability to be adaptable to work across multiple sectors and disciplines and have the drive to want to learn new skills.
• In possession of or with the capability to obtain a level of security clearance (ideal but not always necessary for the right candidate).

What we can offer:

• A variety of schemes and the opportunity to work across both UK and International markets
• Flexible working to…