Estimator​/Senior Estimator

Location/s: Manchester or Liverpool, UK

Recruiter contact: Alice Roostan

• 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 embodied and operational carbon within the proposed solution
• Produce basis of estimate reports to effectively communicate all estimating assumptions, dependencies, and exclusions to stakeholders and end users
• Implement estimating best practice to ensure quality and governance is maintained and deliver estimating outputs to an exceptional level of technical competence within agreed timescales
• Ensure that leadership review, assurance and sign-off is completed for all estimates
• Have a clear understanding of project finances and provide support to the project team in developing project financial models

• HNC / HND or degree qualified in an Engineering, Construction Management, or Quantity Surveying discipline or relevant industry experience
• Professional accreditation with AcostE / RICS / CIOB or working towards
• Familiarity with the application of estimating packages such as CANDY, CONQUEST, CAUSEWAY, COST OS, COST X etc
• Working knowledge and demonstrable experience in the use and application of the Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc
• Extensive experience of working in infrastructure projects, with the ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with clients and colleagues
• Knowledge of the HMT Five Case Business Model, and experience in producing estimates from Strategic Outline Case through to Full Business Case for project and programme appraisals
• Working knowledge of carbon estimating including embodied, operational, and whole life carbon
• Understanding of how TOTEX (Total Expenditure) is calculated, using Development Expenditure, Capital Expenditure, Operational Expenditure, End of Life / Decommissioning Expenditure, to provide Whole Life Cost solutions to our clients

Mott Mac Donald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

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• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 × your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 × your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a…