Estimator

Job Title: Estimator - Water Industry
Location: UK Wide
Pay Rate: Negotiable
Job Type: Contract, Inside IR35

Job Summary:
We are looking for a skilled and detail-driven Estimators to join our clients team in the water industry. The successful candidate will be responsible for preparing accurate and competitive cost estimates for a variety of water-related projects, including water treatment plants, pipelines, and distribution systems. This role is essential in ensuring project profitability, compliance, and successful delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Hold responsibility for cost estimate development through all stages of project and programme lifecycles, 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.

Requirements:
Proven experience as an Estimator, preferably in the water or utilities industry.
Strong knowledge of water infrastructure projects, including treatment plants, pipelines, and distribution systems.
Proficiency in cost estimation tools and software.
Ability to interpret engineering designs, drawings, and specifications.
Solid understanding of relevant water industry standards and environmental regulations.
Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
Effective communication and interpersonal skills for engaging with clients, suppliers, and internal teams.
A degree or diploma in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, or a related field is preferred.