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About the Role

As a Senior Estimator, you will influence projects throughout their development lifecycle and play a key role in shaping winning solutions. You will join an experienced pre-construction team, collaborating with project teams, clients, design partners, and supply chain organizations to develop safe, buildable, and value-driven solutions for infrastructure opportunities within the Social Infrastructure, Nuclear, and Defence sectors.

Responsibilities

Coordinate with bid teams, estimating colleagues, the wider pre-construction team, and ECI project teams.
Manage and deliver cost estimates at various design and scope stages, including multiple iterations of budget and target prices.
Support ECI teams with project budget development, value engineering, efficiency proposals, and Construction Target Cost preparation.
Contribute to optioneering, feasibility studies, and multidisciplinary solution development.
Liaise with clients, designers, consultants, quantity surveyors, and wider third-party stakeholders.
Prepare and administer tender documentation, correspondence, supply chain enquiries, and quotations.
Challenge and support bid preparation to develop safe, cost-effective, and buildable solutions.
Gather and distribute lessons learned, and remain current with emerging techniques and innovations.
Prepare first-principles cost estimates using Candy estimating software.
Participate in bid preparation, review sessions, and tender settlement meetings.
Produce tender summaries, risk and opportunity registers, and communicate estimate details at review and handover stages.
Ensure compliance with BAM and Group bid governance procedures.

Requirements

Significant experience within civil engineering, infrastructure, or major project delivery environments, gained through estimating, commercial, engineering, or operational leadership roles.
Proven experience leading or managing complex estimates and tender submissions within a civil engineering or infrastructure setting.
Experience pricing a variety of civil engineering disciplines, with a strong understanding of construction methods and typical production rates.
Demonstrable understanding of common forms of contract, including NEC.
Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with experience guiding teams to achieve challenging deadlines.
Ability to obtain and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance (Desirable).
Previous experience working in regulated, nuclear, or defence environments (Advantageous but not essential).

Skills

Estimating
Cost estimation
Value engineering
Tender documentation
Bid preparation
Risk management
Stakeholder management
Leadership
Communication

Location

England
Wales

Work Type

Hybrid
Remote
Office-based

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent qualification
HND in Civil Engineering or equivalent qualification

Salary/Compensations

Competitive salary

Benefits

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

About the Company

Building a sustainable tomorrow. BAM engineers vital infrastructure and constructs high-quality buildings as one of the largest construction companies in Europe.

Equal Opportunity

We strive to create an environment where everybody feels welcome and valued. We’re on an exciting journey to employ the best talent to join us regardless of social background, race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics.
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.