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Building a sustainable tomorrow
BAM Infrastructure are thrilled to offer an exciting opportunity for a skilled Estimator to join our Rail team. You will be working within our pre-construction team, working on bids and supporting our early contractor involvement (ECI) projects on a variety of competitive tenders, negotiated works, and call-off contracts. This is an exceptional opportunity for a driven professional to play a pivotal role in securing new projects and programs of work, ensuring we deliver value and add best-in-class preconstruction and early contractor involvement.
The role will be based in any of our UK Rail Offices (York, Sevenoaks or Bristol), but we operate a hybrid working model, allowing you to mix working from home or from the office, together with visits to our project sites, client offices, and our design partners' offices.
Your work environment
- The role will be based in any of our UK Rail Offices (York, Sevenoaks or Bristol), but we operate a hybrid working model, allowing you to mix working from home or from the office, together with visits to our project sites, client offices and our design partners' offices.
- People are at the heart of what we do at Bam. We recognise that creating a diverse and inclusive environment that nurtures our employees and encourages them to bring their best and whole self to work is crucial. We're on an exciting journey to get us there by recruiting the very best talent to join us regardless of race, colour, religion, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics.
Your mission
- Prepare properly considered cost estimates for tenders and projects.
- Understanding and contributing to work winning and the governance process and understanding the BAM Baseline.
- Working responsibly with commercially sensitive pre-tender and tender information.
- Working collaboratively with the bid team and the wider Pre-Construction team, and in particular with Senior Estimating staff, tender Planning Engineers, and the Bid Manager.
- Understanding the scope of a project, including review of 3D model and 2D digital drawing information and extracting information including specification details and quantities.
- Preparing and issuing supply chain enquiries and amendments in accordance with the tender procurement strategy and the Procurement Plan and evaluating and adjudicating quotations.
- Preparing the estimate using proprietary Estimating software including calculations, schedules, reports, and tender summaries.
- Identifying and evaluating risks and opportunities and developing a priced Risk and Opportunity Management Register.
- Presenting, and finalising the estimate and preparing tender submission information.
- Preparing post-tender clarification responses and contributing to post-tender negotiations.
- Preparing and presenting the handover of estimating information to project teams including feedback requests.
- Collecting, processing, and sharing cost benchmarking and feedback information.
- Maintaining awareness of latest construction materials, equipment, and techniques.
- Supporting and guiding Estimating Assistants and Associate Estimators.
- Carrying out other relevant duties as required from time to time.
Who are we looking for?
- Degree, HND in Civil Engineering or NVQ equivalent level.
- Suitable civil engineering site experience with understanding of methods and typical production rates/outputs.
- Awareness of common forms of contract.
The Following Are Desirable Requirements
- M I C E.
- Good knowledge of UK civil construction market
- Familiarity in the use of digital QTO software
What’s in it for you?
- Competitive salary
- A wide range of family-friendly policies
- Company car/car allowance/travel allowance
- 8 % matched pension contributions
- Private healthcare
- Life assurance
- 26 days holiday
- 2 wellbeing days
- 1 volunteering day
- Personal and professional development
BAM Infrastructure is also committed to equality of opportunity in all its employment practices, and to developing policies that support work-life balance.
Who are we?
The art of building is about building for communities; it’s about building for life.
Where others stop, we go further, leading the way towards a sustainable tomorrow for us and future generations. As an industry leader, we raise the bar.
Our values: sustainable, inclusive, collaborative, reliable and ownership, enable us to achieve our ambitions. Today, tomorrow and every day.
Our recruitment process
For more information about the vacancy and our projects, please contact Jonathan Schulte, Recruitment Manager, BAM Infrastructure, m: 07717 227890 / Email:
[email protected]BAM is committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at anytime you feel you may need any reasonable adjustments, do not hesitate to speak with one of our team, and we will do our best to support you.
