AmcoGiffen
Senior Estimator
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Sector: Rail & Civil Engineering
Region: South Supporting Wales, Western and South East Business Units
Office Locations
- Pontyclun
- Swanley
- Highbridge
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Estimator to join our growing South Region Pre-Contract Team, supporting a diverse portfolio of multi-disciplinary rail and civil engineering projects. This role is central to our work-winning success across CP7 frameworks, rail infrastructure, and complex civil engineering schemes for key clients including Transport for Wales, Network Rail, and the Environment Agency.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary (dependent on experience)
- Company Car or Car Allowance
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (increasing with length of service)
- Up to 3 volunteer days
- Company contributory pension scheme
- Life Insurance
- Medicash Health Cash Plan & Rewards
- A structured and well-supported development pathway, with opportunities to grow through internal leadership and talent programmes (including Purposeful Leadership, Women in Leadership, and more)
- Supportive, inclusive, and safe working environment
- Employee forums to ensure your voice is heard and valued
About AmcoGiffen
AmcoGiffen delivers an extensive range of civil engineering and infrastructure projects across the UK. Our Southern region is fast-paced, collaborative, and involved in an impressive portfolio of pre-contract and tendered works including:
- Bridges, footbridges & structures
- Embankments, earthworks & drainage
- Station improvements & platforms (including Access for All)
- Tunnels, strengthening & refurbishment
- Electrification & Plant works
- Minor works and national frameworks
- Multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure packages
You’ll be joining a highly engaged work-winning team at an exciting time of growth, contributing to strategic tender activity and supporting major framework commitments.
The Role
As Senior Estimator, you will take ownership of tender opportunities across the South region, ensuring robust, accurate, and commercially sound estimates are produced for a variety of civil engineering and rail schemes.
Key responsibilities include:
- Effective registration, control, and administration of tender documentation
- Managing the full tender process from initial receipt through to final submission
- Preparing and presenting tender submissions at senior review meetings
- Liaising closely with the Supply Chain team to issue enquiries and assess subcontractor quotes
- Undertaking technical and commercial appraisals of labour, plant, materials, and temporary works
- Completing take-offs and producing first-principles cost build-ups
- Identifying, analysing, and pricing project risks
- Producing high-quality estimating reports and supporting documents
- Collaborating with internal proposals and contract management teams
- Supporting continuous improvement and knowledge sharing across the work-winning function
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About You
You will be an experienced Estimator or Senior Estimator with a strong background in rail and/or civil engineering, ideally gained within a contracting organization.
Essential:
- First Principles Estimating experience
- Experience working on multi-disciplinary rail or civil engineering projects
- Strong technical understanding of construction methodologies
- Proficient with Excel and modern estimating software
- Able to manage multiple tenders simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
Preferred:
- Previous site or operational experience before moving into Estimating
- Experience working within Network Rail frameworks (CP6 / CP7)
The Company
Why AmcoGiffen?
You will be joining a reputable and firmly established, engineering contractor operating nationally in rail, civils, and engineering markets. AmcoGiffen is renowned in the market as a specialist civil, building, mechanical, and electrical renewals and maintenance business with ongoing and successful projects and frameworks across the country. You will become part of our expert outfit.
AmcoGiffen has a wealth of experience working on sensitive, live assets in highly regulated environments. We deliver exceptional peace of mind for our customers, creating and maintaining assets across a growing range of high-quality public and private sectors. These include rail, power generation, electricity distribution, flood defence, aviation, waterways, and much more.
Diversity & Inclusion at AmcoGiffen
We value collective expertise, but also the spark that one person can bring. As one of us, you can be you, because your individuality is an asset to our business and the communities in which we work and represent.
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We are working hard as part of the civil engineering and construction industry, to improve diversity & inclusion. Our Diversity and inclusion journey at AmcoGiffen is constantly evolving and is designed to break down barriers and promote the principles of a diverse workforce through multiple channels. This includes delivering training, raising awareness, regular forums, and sharing our engagement calendar of activities and events to encourage participation at all levels throughout our organization.
Diversity & Inclusion is embodied throughout our SPIRIT core Business values and lies at the heart of our culture of Safety, Professionalism, Innovation, Respect, Integrity, and Teamwork.
AmcoGiffen is an Equal Opportunities Employer, offering challenging, worthwhile careers to everyone and is pro-actively committed to improving our understanding year on year to foster a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees as well as for the customers and communities in which we serve and operate within. It doesn’t matter to us what your age, disability, employment status, gender, health, marital status, sexual preference, membership or non-membership of a trade union, nationality, race, religion, or social class are, or indeed any other personal characteristics not directly related to the relevant job. Anyone who meets the requirements of the job is eligible for employment with AmcoGiffen.
Health & Wellbeing
Operating from a people-first perspective, we support safety and wellbeing in the workplace as a priority. We have a large number of colleagues that are trained and qualified mental health first aiders to support and listen where appropriate. We enroll all of the AmcoGiffen family onto an employee assistance program which provides 24-hour, 7 days a week counselling and advice services.
Is AmcoGiffen your next career challenge? If so, apply now!
For more information or to arrange a private and confidential discussion about AmcoGiffen career opportunities, please contact our Recruitment Team:
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