Estimator​/Senior Estimator

Location/s: Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Glasgow, Derby UK
Relocation supported: Not supported, but internal applications are welcome
Hiring manager contact: Patrick Clyne

Mott Mac Donald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.

Whatever your ambition, Mott Mac Donald is where people come to be brilliant.

Mott Mac Donald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery(APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation,healthand care sectors.

We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world-leading projectexpertisewith unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services.

APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education,healthand care management.

As an Estimator/Senior Estimator, you will be responsible for producing high-quality cost estimates throughout the project and programme lifecycle. The role involves working closely with stakeholders to define scope, develop cost plans using a range of estimating techniques, and ensure estimates fully reflect project requirements, risks, opportunities, and uncertainties. You will apply industry standard methodologies, maintain strong governance and assurance practices, and provide clear, well-documented estimating outputs that support effective project planning, financial management, sustainability considerations, and successful delivery.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Hold responsibility for cost estimate development through all stages of project and programme life cycles, from concept stage through to delivery and handover
• Undertake estimates using various techniques including first principal bottom-up, and parametric top-down methods
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify, capture, and record the scope of the estimating activities
• Establish Work Breakdown and Cost Breakdown Structures ensuring all scope elements captured and recorded using industry standard methods of measurement such as CESMM4, NRM, RMM, HWMM
• Ensure all elements of the ‘cost stack’ including, escalation, land and property, administration, direct costs, indirect costs, and temporary works are considered in the estimate
• Support the identification of risk and opportunities and produce estimates for pre-mitigation and post-mitigation cost impacts
• Develop and support the calculation of contingency, as a holistic view of risk, opportunity and estimating uncertainty within a project team environment
• Challenge sustainability and consider…