Balfour Beatty plc
Trainee Estimator
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About The Role
Balfour Beatty Rail is recruiting for a Trainee Estimator to join our team based in Hillington, Glasgow. This is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to start their career or take a new career path. The successful candidate will have the chance to develop a wide range of valuable skills while gaining hands-on experience within a leading rail infrastructure business.
In this role you will be responsible for;
- Ensuring estimating files are produced and maintained to comply with Gated Lifecycle, Bid Governance and Audit requirements
- Management of subcontract and supplier enquiries as required to support submission of tenders
- Assist in the hand over from estimating to commercial, operational, procurement, finance functions for all contract wins through the contract hand over and start up process
- Understand the importance of corporate governance and ensure consistent measures and standards are applied
What you'll be doing
- Assist in the interpretation of technical drawings and specifications to understand the requirements relating to an enquiry
- Work collaboratively with the Balfour Beatty Rail Systems team to ensure complete understanding of the works and timelines associated with changes and bid submissions
- Help to ensure that high quality, competitive proposals are delivered to the customer in line with the Balfour Beatty Management Systems
- Aid the Senior estimator in tender submissions including ensuring all tenders have a tender stage
- Help perform quantity take-offs of materials and labour operations
- Send out enquiries for quotations, analyse quotes, build up rates, form preliminaries and collation of information to complete a tender with client requirements in terms of content, format and timescales
- Attend pre-tender meetings and site visits
- Establish and maintain positive and effective relationships with customers, partners, Bid Managers, Bid Writers, Estimators, Planners and other technical experts
- Assist in ensuring all data utilised in tender build ups are current and relevant (e.g., Labour / Plant rates applicable to delivery period)
- Help to identify process improvement to support innovation and value-added engineering
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Who we're looking for
- Ideally possess three A levels/5 Highers/112 UCAS points or equivalent in STEM subjects or Advanced Apprenticeship in Engineering
- Ideally a minimum of five GCSE’s (or equivalent) at grades 9-4 or A-C including Maths, English and Science or equivalent qualifications
- Excellent time management & attention to detail skills
- Good financial acumen with an ability to analyse data and documentation accurately
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Strong and well-developed team and people skills, with a passion and enthusiasm to keep the momentum going on a project.
- Strong work ethic and willingness to take responsibility for your academic and vocational development
- Proficient in general IT applications e.g., Word and Excel
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.
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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 works at the heart of the UK’s rail networks – designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth.
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From feasibility studies, planning and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.
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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