Senior Estimator

We're looking for a Senior Estimator to join our Nuclear, Rail, and Aviation team based remotely.

Location: Remote working available, with travel to the office/site as required.
Hours: 40 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role. 
Due to the sensitive nature of the sites, security clearance is required. Please note that this process can take up to 8 weeks. Eligibility criteria: Candidates must hold a passport from a NATO or MISWG member country and have resided in the UK for the past 5 years.

As a Senior Estimator, you'll play a pivotal role in securing new projects across nuclear, defence, railway, and aviation sectors. Working remotely with flexibility, you'll lead the estimating process from initial tender through to handover, ensuring accuracy and commercial success. This role offers the opportunity to work on diverse infrastructure projects whilst contributing to our business growth objectives.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Estimator, you'll be working within the Nuclear, Rail, and Aviation team, supporting them in securing new work and maximising commercial opportunities. Your day to day will include:

• Leading the estimating process from receipt of client documents through to handover to the delivery team
• Preparing structured quantities and pricing work under various contract forms, ensuring accuracy and completeness
• Managing supply chain strategies, appraising quotations, and selecting appropriate suppliers in collaboration with the procurement team
• Presenting estimates at bid team meetings and settlement reviews, whilst identifying key risks and opportunities
• Supporting and developing junior team members, managing workloads to meet exacting tender deadlines

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Estimator is great for you if:

• You hold at least a degree or HNC in construction or civil engineering, with professional qualification (CEng MICE, MCInstCES, or MRICS) preferred
• You have extensive experience as an Estimator with a major civil engineering contractor or as a Senior Estimator with Tier 2 contractors
• You possess excellent communication skills and thrive as a collaborative team player with a positive, can-do attitude
• You have a solid understanding of contract forms (NEC, ICE, FIDIC, NR) and strong commercial awareness
• You're proficient in Excel and either experienced with RIB Candy estimating system or eager to learn

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.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Due to the nature of this role and the nature of the work at this site, you will be required to complete a Government Security Check (SC) Clearance, which takes place during/before your employment, and is conducted by the Cabinet Office's United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) agency who set out a pre-requisite criteria including residency history. Applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us - to read more about our programme to support people with convictions into employment, visit www.kier.co.uk/careers/making-ground. This role will also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.