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Senior Estimator
Bristol
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Senior Estimator - Altrad HPC
Job Type
Permanent
Job Responsibilities
- Estimate Preparation: Prepare detailed estimates for piping and mechanical work packages, covering direct labour, materials, equipment, preliminaries, subcontracted services, and indirect, and allowances.
- Basis of Estimate (BOE): Prepare and maintain comprehensive BOE documentation clearly defining scope assumptions, quantities, methodologies, pricing sources, and risk allowances.
- Work Breakdown Structure Alignment: Ensure estimates are fully mapped to the project's Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS), and aligned to the Control Account framework.
- Data Analysis and Benchmarking: Utilise historical data, productivity norms, and benchmarking data (e.g., industry databases) to validate estimate inputs and assumptions.
- Supplier and Subcontractor Pricing: Liaise with procurement to analyse supplier quotations, subcontractor pricing, and bulk material pricing to ensure competitiveness and completeness.
- Schedule and Productivity Integration: Collaborate with planning and construction teams to ensure activity durations, labour resources, and installation rates reflect delivery strategies and site conditions.
- Change and Trend Support: Support change control, trend analysis, and re-estimation processes as project scope evolves.
- Commercial Support: Provide estimating inputs to commercial negotiations, contract awards, and cost target setting.
- Risk & Opportunity Analysis: Identify cost risks, quantify estimating uncertainty, and work closely with the Cost Forecasting & Estimating Manager and Risk teams to ensure proper integration into contingency and forecast scenarios.
- Forecasting Interface: Collaborate with Project Controls and Finance to ensure estimates are appropriately feeding into financial forecasts, cash flows, and budget development processes.
- Estimate Reviews and Governance: Lead and participate in estimate reviews, internal governance processes, and assurance reviews to ensure estimate robustness and alignment to project strategy.
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Qualifications/Experience
- Degree or equivalent qualification in engineering, construction management, quantity surveying, or a related discipline.
- Professional membership or certification desirable (e.g. AACE, RICS, ICES, or equivalent).
- Extensive estimating experience on large, complex infrastructure or energy projects.
- Experience supporting early stage estimate development for major infrastructure or energy projects, including support to funding gate approvals, commercial negotiations, and early design maturity phases.
- Deep knowledge of piping fabrication, mechanical installation, welding, NDT, and testing requirements.
- Strong understanding of estimating methodologies, BOE development, and WBS / CBS structures.
- Experience working with productivity norms and developing installation rates.
- Proficiency with estimating tools, databases, and Excel-based cost models.
- Understanding of schedule interfaces and how construction sequencing affects cost estimation.
- Collaborative working style within integrated project teams.
- Strong commercial awareness and understanding of cost risk exposure.
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Additional Information
For this role you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability, or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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Skills
Estimating
Piping fabrication
Mechanical installation
Welding
NDT
Cost forecasting
Risk analysis
WBS
CBS
Data analysis
Benchmarking
Procurement
Project controls
Excel
Commercial awareness
Location