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Senior Estimator

  • Location: Cork, Ireland
  • Salary: Attractive rates.
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted 6 days ago

  • Sector: Advanced Facilities
  • Contact: Ivanna Troian
  • Contact Email: ivanna.troian@nrl.co.uk
  • Contact Phone: 01483 302 133
  • Start Date: 07 April 2025
  • Expiry Date: 08 May 2025
  • Job Ref: V-234518

Senior Estimator – Cork, Ireland


Key Duties and Responsibilities include:

  • Disseminate Operating Procedures for estimating activities and ensure implementation.

  • Standardise the estimating delivery of the projects, tools, templates, filing structures, so that The Company Standard becomes the norm across the operation.

  • Develop and implement estimate plans for projects.

  • Compile project estimates in accordance with the approved estimate plans and standard operating procedures.

  • Complete estimate risk analysis and contingency calculations.

  • Present and review estimates with project team and senior management.

  • Present and review estimates with clients.

  • Consolidation of benchmark information in a centralised and traceable location to ensure that all project learnings are captured and incorporated and project commencement and completion.

  • Take the lead in Value Engineering and Risk Workshopping.

  • Support and propagate Capital Cost Trending across projects.

  • Support and propagate The Company Value-Plus programme.

  • Support and propagate The Company Sustainability-Plus programme.

  • Ensure that systems are in place and effective, and that all estimating requirements of Project Management, and the Client are being satisfied.

  • Strive to improve templates and processes for estimate delivery, leveraging the IT tools available such as Cost-x, Navisworks, excel and other tools to improve the productive delivery of the estimating function.


Overall Expectations:

  • Delivery of a high-quality, accurate, transparent and timely estimating function for projects.

  • Actively cooperate with members of the Project & Operations Management team.

  • Make a particular point of establishing a mutually respectful relationship with key client personnel with whom you interact.

  • Meet commitments made to the operations, individually or as a team, to complete work by certain dates or within agreed effort hour or cost budgets.

  • Continually look for ways to improve our work processes.

  • Analyse outside commercial approaches and information for best practices.

  • Be positive and respectful in your discussions with clients and The Company.


Required:

  • BSc or MSc in a recognised Industry field (Quantity Surveying, Construction Management or Engineering).

  • Chartered Membership of Engineers Ireland, SCSI or equivalent is an advantage.

  • This position requires extensive experience in cost engineering, quantity surveying or estimating fields. This should include experience on a project construction site and experience in a related industrial sector.


Technical Competencies:

  • Detailed knowledge of design, procurement, and construction/field service processes and their inherent cost and schedule performance risks.

  • Detailed understanding of The Company’s EPCM project delivery process.

  • Knowledgeable and proficient with computers and experienced with:

    • Spreadsheets, word processing and database software

    • Scheduling software

    • Quantity Surveying Software (Cost X; Navisworks; Buildsoft or equivalent)

    • Risk Analysis (Monte Carlo) software

    • Commercial and/or proprietary Project Services systems

  • Knowledge of resource requirements and training required for all Commercial Services software.

  • Detailed knowledge of preparation of Capital Estimates.

  • Proficiency in data management and structuring:

    • Benchmarking

    • Rates Harvesting

    • Automation of repetitive tasks

    • Price Sourcing Skills

  • Has a technical understanding of all the constituent functions – Contracts, Quantity Surveying; Claims Management.

  • Has a technical understanding of the software systems and methods used within all of the constituent functions.

  • Capable communicating with the commercial team to ensure complete understanding and fulfilment of operations and project/program objectives.

  • Capable of effectively communicating with all levels of project and operations management and with the client. Must identify potential problems and elevate these to the appropriate level(s) of management.

  • Able to make clear and concise presentations to The Company and Client management.

  • Good facilitator with excellent interpersonal, communication, planning and organizational skills.

  • Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to foster and grow positive relationships within the Project Services team, within the performance unit (PU), across The Company – particularly with other offices, and with our Clients and partners.


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