Senior Estimator
Company
Location
The Home, United Kingdom
Posted At
4/29/2025
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Description
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Estimator to work in our Energy Sector to support efforts in work winning and delivery across our 3 core market segments: Resilience, Connectivity and Transition.
The role will vary between being the sole estimator on smaller bids for Front End Studies and FEED and as part of a wider team for large Projects and Programmes, ensuring that a robust cost estimate is developed integrated with all other facets required to create a Performance Measurement Baseline – Scope, Schedule, Risk, Commercial, Finance, Engineering and Project Management.
Reporting into the Sector Lead Estimator, previous experience and understanding of estimating in the Energy sector is required to be able to work autonomously where required.
This role will require 3 days a week in our Manchester or Aberdeen offices . Limited travel anticipated only to meet project teams and clients
Responsibilities
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
About The Team
Advisory is a core part of Costain’s strategy to broaden our mix of services and grow margin performance. We work with clients on multiple strategic fronts to understand, articulate and provide solutions for their most complex challenges and to facilitate further growth in multiple areas.
Our vision is to be recognised as a leading infrastructure consultancy who transform client capabilities and help them achieve enhanced value for money.
This is a key part of Costain achieving its mission to shape, create and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the infrastructure ecosystem.
We are looking for a Senior Estimator to work in our Energy Sector to support efforts in work winning and delivery across our 3 core market segments: Resilience, Connectivity and Transition.
The role will vary between being the sole estimator on smaller bids for Front End Studies and FEED and as part of a wider team for large Projects and Programmes, ensuring that a robust cost estimate is developed integrated with all other facets required to create a Performance Measurement Baseline – Scope, Schedule, Risk, Commercial, Finance, Engineering and Project Management.
Reporting into the Sector Lead Estimator, previous experience and understanding of estimating in the Energy sector is required to be able to work autonomously where required.
This role will require 3 days a week in our Manchester or Aberdeen offices . Limited travel anticipated only to meet project teams and clients
Responsibilities
- Development of multi-discipline estimates at all stages of a project lifecycle, ensuring alignment and robustness, across a variety of sub-sector markets e.g. plant modifications, green and brownfield and onshore and offshore
- Development of the estimate in line with agreed integrated work and cost breakdown structures and planned methodology
- Lead on the development of estimating strategies and present to senior stakeholders both internal and external.
- Preparation of quantities from drawings and specifications including liaison with engineering disciplines as required. The documents are received in formats which include P&ID’s, Process flow Diagrams (PFD’s), plant layout drawings and 3D Models.
- Preparation of analytical estimates for design, materials, and construction.
- Contribution to the development of the integrated performance measurement baseline (PMB).
- Ensuring costs included for each tender fully reflect the technical and commercial scope of each tender. The tenders must be prepared to the deadlines given by the client.
- Rate calculations for Consultancy bids. Calculating Cost to Employ (CTE) of the required rates. Calculating rates using contractor rates and ensuring all allowances are included in the rates for the employment of the individuals.
- Pricing discipline man hours estimates based on grade splits. Understand the different grades of each team and discipline.
- Benchmarking of hours/costs from previous projects.
- Degree level qualified or equivalent in a mechanical or electrical engineering related discipline.
- Experienced in estimating medium to large energy projects such as oil and gas, utilities, pharmaceuticals and nuclear.
- Experienced in estimating at all project lifecycle stages, Concept, Study, FEED and detailed design. Using both parametric and bottom-up estimating methods.
- Knowledge and experience of estimating techniques and methods for concept estimates and detail bottom-up Knowledge of project scheduling and planning.
- Proficient user in Microsoft Excel.
- Experience of using Aspen Capital Cost Estimator would be beneficial
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
About The Team
Advisory is a core part of Costain’s strategy to broaden our mix of services and grow margin performance. We work with clients on multiple strategic fronts to understand, articulate and provide solutions for their most complex challenges and to facilitate further growth in multiple areas.
Our vision is to be recognised as a leading infrastructure consultancy who transform client capabilities and help them achieve enhanced value for money.
This is a key part of Costain achieving its mission to shape, create and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the infrastructure ecosystem.
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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