Our team shape projects that connect communities and impact daily life for millions. Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Senior Electrical Estimator and build new futures. The role can be based from one of our regional offices with the expectation to travel to site as required. Role Purpose:

To be responsible for pricing tender opportunities by implementing estimating strategies on each bid.
Lead an Estimating team, including managing the workload and allocation of estimating resource within assigned bid teams., Review customer's drawings and specifications to prepare accurate costing sheets for materials, labour and equipment
Ensure compliance with Balfour Beatty procedures, including pre-construction gate process
Review tender documents and submission requirements, ensuring all financial information is identified and provided and accurate compliant design proposals are included
Agree with engineering and planning key methods, outputs and plant selection
Manage and coordinate the preparation of preliminary and general expense pricing, including plant schedules and risk assessment
Prepare tender settlement papers and carry out any belated adjustments as a result of tender settlements
Provide bills of allowances as part of the commercial handover meeting
Responsibility for 'sign off' of all cost elements prior to any gate meetings or financial submissions
Select suitable sub-contractors and specialists for each project
Ensure that key specialists are utilised on each bid to optimise: design, specification, programme and value
Manage the production of cost information and tender submissions for senior management
Provide considered responses to customer questions including post tender queries
Ensure that the project commercial team have received an effective handover of bid documentation
Manage customer contact, present tender proposals to customers and contribute to customer meetings during the tender process
Seek to understand, lead the development of and implement the appropriate digital toolsets to execute cost take-off and other estimating activities, such as 5D cost planning
Attend or carry out periodic Tender Health Checks and formal risk reviews to ensure that the identified risks are mitigated as far as possible in tender submissions
Ensure that cost planning and estimating are accurate and reflect the project requirements and risk profile
Provide mentoring on bids to Estimators and the bid teams, including commercial and technical advice
Maintain the company supply chain database/Estimating System with tender information from allocated bids

Qualities and experience:
Detailed knowledge of electrical services including knowledge of HV/LV & instrumentation
Experience of tendering projects in the Petro chemical, nuclear or regulated environments
Undertaking of NAECI Labour agreements
Experience of pricing and developing customer MTO's
Previous experience of managing the process of estimating projects, within the construction industry is required.
Membership of a relevant professional body and/or relevant professional qualification is desirable, such as RICS/CIOB/RIBA/ICE/CIBSE.
Working knowledge of best practice solutions and optimisation of innovative ideas and an understanding of the principles of Lean Construction and 5D cost planning is desirable.
An understanding of BIM and how to read and assemble BIM models and produce appropriate reports from them is desirable.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills are required, coupled with an ability to form effective relationships with partners under time pressure.
Experience of leading a team is desirable.
A desire to continuously pursue innovation and development, with a focus on the customer and the business is required. Proficiency in IT, numeracy and MS Office Basic & Estimating Systems is essential.

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