AddressSenior Estimator – Inside IR35
Contract Term: Until December 2025
Contracting Authority: AWE
Location: Aldermaston, Reading - Hybrid
What if you could work on something that you can’t test… but cannot afford to fail? Something that could have spent years on a submarine, is launched into outer space (where the temperature is below -250c), comes hurtling through the atmosphere, being heated up and shaken and then must work? Some challenge.
That’s exactly what the team of over 6,500 people at AWE do every day: delivering important work, in support of the most important mission – keeping the nation safe.
AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission: to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites, and everything around them, safe and secure.
As a Senior Estimator your main responsibilities will be:
Key Accountabilities:
Implement best practice estimating policy, processes and procedures on projects.
Providing 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.
Providing estimating input to performance reporting, risk and change assessments.
Key Responsibilities:
· Produce estimating deliverables in accordance with the appropriate procedures and guidelines
· Estimating SME
· Able to lead the development of cost estimate(s) set by the PM, PCM or task manager
· Develop and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders
· Able to review estimate bases including the supporting project controls, supply chain and technical artefacts
· Providing robust cost advice and analysis to support key business decision making and reviews
· Develop and maintain clear and auditable basis of estimate documentation
· Review, assuring quality of cost estimating artefacts
· Providing estimating support to risk assessments and mitigation actions..
Essential:
· Significant experience in an Estimator or Cost Planning role
· Experience of FEED (Front End Engineering Design)/ PPP (Pre Project Planning)
· Experience of cost management for design and build construction projects
· Experience of managing multiple stakeholders.
· Active SC Clearance
Desirable
· Chartered Quantity/ Building Surveyor/
· ACostE or RICS
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply
AWE’s ambition is to create workplaces that recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and where people feel able to be themselves at work. They strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants.
Disability confident
As a member of the disability confident scheme, AWE guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
Armed Forces Covenant
AWE guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, wewill interview the best candidates from within that group.
If you qualify for the above, please notify us
We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.
Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.
In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following “this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.
Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.
Job Types: Temporary, Contract
Benefits:
- Employee discount
- Life insurance
- Referral programme
Education:
- Bachelor's (preferred)
Experience:
- surveying: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- Driving Licence (preferred)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 19/03/2024
Reference ID: PIP0008512
