Balfour Beatty plc
Assistant Estimator
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About The Role
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At Balfour Beatty Living Places, we're passionate about creating and maintaining the roads, pathways and transport networks that communities rely on every day. As an Assistant Estimator, you'll play an important role in helping us secure and deliver highways maintenance and improvement projects that make a real difference across the UK.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Work Winning Team in Basingstoke, where you'll learn from experienced professionals, develop valuable commercial and technical skills, and build the foundations for a rewarding career.
What you'll be doing
Working alongside operational, commercial and bid professionals, you'll help develop competitive and innovative solutions for local authority highways contracts.
You'll Support The Team By
- Assisting with the development of pricing and cost estimates
- Reviewing project information and tender documentation
- Identifying risks, opportunities and delivery considerations
- Supporting bid submissions and tender responses
- Working with operational teams to develop practical delivery solutions
- Contributing to projects that maintain and improve local highway networks
Who we're looking for
We're Interested In Hearing From Graduates Who
- Have a degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Business or a related discipline
- Enjoy analysing information and solving problems
- Are curious about how infrastructure projects are delivered
- Have strong communication and teamwork skills
- Can think commercially and pay attention to detail
- Are keen to learn and develop a career in estimating, bidding and work winning
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No previous estimating experience is required. Many successful Estimators begin their careers in operational, engineering, commercial or project environments before developing specialist estimating skills.
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?
Benefits
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
Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.
Diversity and inclusion
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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
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