Senior Mechanical Estimator - Leeds

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About the role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Mechanical Estimator to join our team and drive excellence across a portfolio of large-scale complex developments. Collaborating with a winning team to secure even more business, you'll get to apply your tendering expertise on an unrivalled scale.

As Senior Mechanical Estimator, you will l ead the Estimating team, including managing the workload and allocation of estimating resource within assigned bid teams. You will be responsible for pricing tender opportunities by implementing estimating strategies on each bid and directly managing the estimating process and procedures in bidding.

What you'll be doing

As a Senior Mechanical Estimator, you will oversee and/or interrogate design options and 'value' solutions, and if appropriate, identify the attractiveness of a project based on sound estimating principles. Activities to include:

• Review customer's drawings and specifications to prepare accurate costing sheets for materials, labour and equipment
• Ensure compliance with Balfour Beatty procedures, including pre-construction gate process
• Review tender documents and submission requirements, ensuring all financial information is identified and provided and accurate compliant design proposals are included
• Establish and agree key plant rates
• Agree with engineering and planning key methods, outputs and plant selection
• Detailed analysis of subcontractors' analysis
• Manage and coordinate the preparation of preliminary and general expense pricing, including plant schedules and risk assessment
• Prepare tender settlement papers and carry out any belated adjustments as a result of tender settlements
• Provide bills of allowances as part of the commercial handover meeting
• Responsibility for 'sign off' of all cost elements prior to any gate meetings or financial submissions Select suitable sub-contractors and specialists for each project
• Ensure that key specialists are utilised on each bid to optimise: design, specification, programme and value
• Manage the production of cost information and tender submissions for senior management
• Provide considered responses to customer questions including post tender queries
• Ensure that the project commercial team have received an effective handover of bid documentation
• Manage customer contact, present tender proposals to customers and contribute to customer meetings during the tender process
• Seek to understand, lead the development of and implement the appropriate digital toolsets to execute cost take-off and other estimating activities, such as 5D cost planning
• Attend or carry out periodic Tender Health Checks and formal risk reviews to ensure that the identified risks are mitigated as far as possible in tender submissions
• Ensure that cost planning and estimating are accurate and reflect the project requirements and risk profile
• Provide mentoring on bids to Estimators and the bid teams, including commercial and technical advice
• Maintain the company supply chain database/Estimating System with tender information from allocated bids
• Carry out measurement and take-offs, pricing and entering the system
• Live the Balfour Beatty Values
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm
• Support the delivery of Balfour Beatty Sustainability activities

Who we're looking for

• Experience of tendering projects in regulated environments is desirable.
• Previous experience of managing the process of estimating projects, within the construction industry is required along with a valid CSCS card.
• Membership of a relevant professional body and/or relevant professional qualification is desirable, such as RICS/CIOB/RIBA/ICE/CIBSE.
• Working knowledge of best practice solutions and optimisation of innovative ideas and an understanding of the principles of Lean Construction and 5D cost planning is desirable.
• An understanding of BIM and how to read and assemble BIM models and produce appropriate reports from them is desirable.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills are required, coupled with an ability to form effective relationships with partners under time pressure. Experience of leading a team is desirable. Able to be a strong team player, as well as work on their own initiative.
• A desire to continuously pursue innovation and development, with a focus on the customer and the business is required. Proficiency in IT, numeracy and MS Office Basic & Estimating Systems is essential.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...

About us

Operating across England and Wales, our buildings teams create places where people live, are cared for, work, learn, meet and have fun, with a focus on the aviation, health, defence, education and development sectors.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com