We have an excellent opportunity  for a Senior Estimator to join our North West business. 

Location: North West - Salford / Speke 

Hours: 40 Hours per week. 

What will you be responsible for?

The estimator will take a key role in competitive design and build tenders for schemes within Healthcare, Defense, MOJ, Aviation and Life Sciences sectors, liaising with Planners, Design Managers and Preconstruction Managers to deliver innovative cost solutions.

You will ensure accuracy in pricing identifying and reporting on risk and opportunity, scoping and producing accurate net estimates in accordance with Kier Group standards.

Your day to day may include, but not be limited to:

• Preparing competitive estimates and cost plans for large, technically complex construction projects.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding and execution of tender documentation and reporting of findings to various stakeholders.
• Have a diligent approach to the preparation of information to customers and to the checking of information provided by others (Sub contractors)
• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to challenge the status quo and apply intelligent solutions to the design management process.
• Coordinating and challenging the input from the wider construction team including procurement.
• Supporting the bid management and quality submission requirement

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Estimator  is great for you if:

• HND or Degree in relevant construction discipline such as Quantity Surveying/ Construction Management.
• Experience tendering high value construction projects
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of procurement
• Experience of 2^nd stage tender pricing (on both RIBA Stage 3 and RIBA Stage 4 design information).
• Ability to use estimating software effectively
• Full UK Driving License 

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier