Balfour Beatty plc
Senior Estimator – Civil Engineering
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About The Role
Job Title: Senior Estimator – Civil Engineering
Location: Balfour Beatty Maxim Business Park Eurocentral
Company: Balfour Beatty
Project: SCAPE Framework
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Balfour Beatty is looking for an experienced Senior Civils Estimator to join our civil engineering work-winning team and support the successful delivery of projects through the SCAPE framework.
This is more than a traditional estimating position. It is a genuine career-development opportunity, created as part of our longer-term succession planning. You will be given the support, exposure and responsibility needed to continue developing your technical, commercial and leadership capabilities, with a clear opportunity to progress into a more senior role within the estimating and work-winning function.
We are looking for someone with approximately 8–10 years of project-focused civil engineering estimating experience who is ready to take the next significant step in their career.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities
You will take ownership of the estimating and tendering process for a varied portfolio of civil engineering projects, working closely with operational, commercial, design and supply-chain teams.
Your Responsibilities Will Include
- Reviewing tender enquiries, scopes of work and commercial requirements.
- Producing accurate estimates from first principles for earthworks, drainage, concrete, reinforcement and formwork.
- Completing quantity take-offs from drawings, specifications and schedules.
- Developing bills of quantities, schedules of rates and material requirements.
- Assessing construction methodologies, temporary works, plant, labour and site-resource requirements.
- Preparing and issuing subcontract and supplier enquiries.
- Interrogating supply-chain quotations, identifying exclusions, omissions and commercial risks.
- Attending pre-tender meetings, site visits and client discussions.
- Producing tender summaries, qualifications and supporting submission documents.
- Supporting tender adjudications and agreeing the final tender price with senior leadership.
- Assisting with post-tender reviews, contract handovers and project kick-off meetings.
- Sharing knowledge and supporting the development of less-experienced estimators.
Who we're looking for
About You
You will bring strong estimating experience gained across project-focused civil engineering environments, ideally covering areas such as:
- Roads and highways.
- Bridge construction.
- Public-realm improvements.
- Structural concrete.
- Coastal defence.
- Infrastructure and civil engineering frameworks.
You Should Also Have
- Approximately 8–10 years’ civil engineering estimating experience.
- The ability to price work accurately from first principles.
- Experience of the NEC suite of contracts.
- Knowledge of highways methods of measurement and CESMM.
- Experience pricing civil engineering projects of varying size and complexity.
- A good understanding of temporary works and associated costs.
- Confidence using estimating software, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word.
- The ability to manage competing deadlines with minimal supervision.
- Strong communication skills and the confidence to engage with clients, operational teams and supply-chain partners.
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A role designed around your development
This position offers the opportunity to work on visible and varied SCAPE projects while learning from experienced leaders across our work-winning and operational teams.
As part of our succession-planning strategy, we want to appoint someone who has the ambition and potential to take on greater responsibility over time. You will receive structured support to develop your leadership skills, strengthen your commercial decision-making and build the experience required for future progression within Balfour Beatty.
Why join us?
You will be joining a collaborative business where your ideas, experience and career ambitions will be valued. Alongside the opportunity to work on meaningful civil engineering projects, you will benefit from the scale, expertise and long-term career opportunities available across Balfour Beatty.
Ready to take the next step in your estimating career? Apply today and help us shape the next generation of civil engineering projects and estimating leadership.
Professional and personal development
The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.
We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.
We're proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it’s sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10* approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.
70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.
For further information about Balfour Beatty Scotland please go to www.balfourbeatty.com/Scotland - You can also check out further job opportunities in the careers section
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.
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:
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- 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
From Dunfermline’s tramways in 1909 to highland hospitals today, Balfour Beatty has been trusted for over a century to deliver the complex and critical infrastructure and iconic buildings Scotland relies on.
We have the people, knowledge and experience to safely deliver projects right first time, maximising value for money and ensuring a positive social impact and inclusive economic growth for local communities.
Our award-winning sustainable projects, including active travel, Passivhaus and retrofit, demonstrate our commitment to supporting Scotland’s transition towards net zero in the built environment.
Diversity and inclusion
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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