Senior Estimator
Quote ref: 5773/78982
Job description
This contract with our defence client is for a Senior Estimator for 18 months based in Aldermaston / 3 days per week in the office.
Key Accountabilities:
- Implement best practice estimating policy, processes and procedures on projects.
- Providing cost estimates and cost plans within levels of certainty, provisioning effective monitoring, forecasting and control of financial limits
- Assist value engineering assessments and evaluation as part of the project process.
- Providing estimating input to performance reporting, risk and change assessments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Produce estimating deliverables in accordance with the appropriate procedures and guidelines
- Estimating SME
- Able to lead the development of cost estimate(s) set by the PM, PCM or task manager
- Develop and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders
- Able to review estimate bases including the supporting project controls, supply chain and technical artefacts
- Providing robust cost advice and analysis to support key business decision making and reviews
- Develop and maintain clear and auditable basis of estimate documentation
- Review, assuring quality of cost estimating artefacts
- Providing estimating support to risk assessments and mitigation actions..
Requirements
Essential:
- Significant experience in an Estimator or Cost Planning role
- Experience of FEED (Front End Engineering Design)/ PPP (Pre Project Planning)
- Experience of cost management for design and build construction projects
- Experience of managing multiple stakeholders.
Desirable
- Chartered Quantity/ Building Surveyor/
- ACostE or RICS