Senior Estimator

We're looking for a Senior Estimator to join our Construction team based in Waterbeach, Cambridge.

Waterbeach, Cambridge - To split your working week between the office and home.

As a Senior Estimator, you'll play a vital role in developing profitable tenders that contribute to our growing pipeline of work. You'll be joining a collaborative team where your expertise in cost estimation, risk assessment, and tender preparation will help us continue to deliver exceptional projects across education, health, defence, and other key sectors. This is an opportunity to lead and inspire others whilst working on meaningful projects that make a real difference to communities.

• Estimating project costs and preparing tenders, negotiating with suppliers and subcontractors to minimise risk and maximise value.
• Collaborating with design, planning, commercial and bid management teams throughout the tender process.
• Building strong relationships with customers, consultants, contractors and suppliers.
• Supporting the handover of successful tenders to project delivery teams.

• Experience working within a Main Contractor or Tier 1 Contractor environment.
• Proficiency in Excel, estimating software, and take‑off tools such as Blue Beam.
• Demonstrable leadership experience within a pre‑construction team.
• Experience supporting and developing junior team members, sharing knowledge and expertise.
• Conscientious approach with excellent attention to detail and knowledge of benchmarking and cost planning.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

We’re proud to offer a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.