Senior Cost Estimator

As a Senior Cost Estimator, your primary focus is to deliver reliable cost advice and analysis crucial for key business decisions. This involves developing and maintaining clear documentation outlining the basis of estimates, while also conducting rigorous reviews to assure quality and accuracy. You will provide essential support in estimating for risk assessments and mitigation actions, ensuring that potential financial uncertainties are adequately addressed.

Key accountabilities:

• Implement best practice estimating policy, processes and procedures on projects.
• Provide cost estimates and cost plans within levels of certainty, provisioning effective monitoring, forecasting and control of financial limits
• Assist value engineering assessments and evaluation as part of the project process.
• Provide estimating input to performance reporting, risk and change assessments.
• Produce estimating deliverables in accordance with the appropriate procedures and guidelines
• Review estimate bases including the supporting project controls, supply chain and technical artefacts

Key requirements

• Solid 10 to 15 years experience
• Defence background
• Cost Planning experience

If you consider yourself to have a disability or if you are a veteran, and you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will be put forward for the ‘Guaranteed Interview’ scheme whereby you will have the opportunity to discuss this role and your suitability with a member of the Sourcing team.

If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the equivalent PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information.