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Lead Estimator
Lead Estimator
KBR is a global provider of differentiated, professional services and technologies delivered across a wide government, defense and industrial base. Drawing from its rich 100-year history and culture of innovation and mission focus, KBR creates sustainable value by combining engineering, technical and scientific expertise with its full life cycle capabilities to help our clients meet their most pressing challenges today and into the future.
We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 37,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 80 countries and operations in over 29 countries. KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.
KBR is looking for a Lead Estimator to work in our Leatherhead offices.
Job Description
The Lead Estimator will be responsible for the preparation of all classes of Capital Cost Estimates by the application of recognised methodologies and industry practices.
They will have extensive experience in onshore and offshore estimates in energy and chemicals markets including energy transition.
Job Responsibilities
- To define the estimating scope for a project and prepare an estimate plan of work, to identify all deliverables and interfaces with other disciplines to ensure planned completion and the estimate is developed in insufficient detail and is in accordance with good estimating practice:
- complete.
- fully auditable.
- assessed for accuracy, uncertainties, risk, and contingencies.
- in accordance with the approved estimate plans.
- At the outset determine and implement the key factors required to deliver the overall quality and accuracy of the estimate
- equipment and material pricing basis
- material quantification
- construction basis
- professional services
- escalation
- contingency
- exclusions
- Additionally:
- Ensure an estimate is constructed to provide accurate costs for all components in agreed project WBS and CBS.
- Ability to access and develop labour rates and productivity for global projects.
- Conduct detailed analysis and benchmarking to support final estimate.
- Manage and maintain all documentation received, used in the estimate to ensure auditability and back up of the estimate.
- Have an understanding and input into the cost risk assessment of a project.
- Manage input (schedule and quality) from engineering, procurement, and construction disciplines to ensure compliance with estimate plan and procedures to deliver compliant estimates.
- For an assigned project report to the Project Manager and responsible for directing and organising and supervising assigned estimators.
- Reporting to the Estimating Director at a department level and providing support and mentoring of junior estimators.
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Skills
- Experience in Study, Pre-FEED, FEED and EPC estimates.
- Competence and experience in detailed presentation of the estimate to clients and management.
- Knowledge of all estimating techniques.
- Must exercise skill in communications and interpersonal relationships with staff in Estimating and in other workgroups.
- Knowledge and experience in estimating software including ACCE.
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KBR Company Information
When you become part of the KBR team, your opportunities are endless. Through collaboration with our customers, we’re defining tomorrow’s challenges, then providing the solutions and services to overcome those challenges, always maintaining our commitment to total safety and reliability.
At KBR, we partner with government and industry clients to provide purposeful and comprehensive solutions with an emphasis on efficiency and safety. With a full portfolio of services, proprietary technologies and expertise, our employees are ready to handle projects and missions throughout their entire lifecycle, from planning and design to sustainability and maintenance. Whether at the bottom of the ocean or in outer space, our clients trust us to deliver the impossible on a daily basis.
Working at KBR means being rewarded for your contributions. In addition to competitive benefits and professional development, our people are empowered to use all their potential, creating meaningful change for themselves and our clients. We attract the best minds in the world because our expertise thrives on creativity, resourcefulness and collaboration. That is how we supply our clients with cutting-edge solutions and services.
As the needs of the world change, we’re ready to respond and guide the way forward with strategic, sustainable, and technological advancements grounded in more than a century of practical application and execution.
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