Principal Cost Estimator

Your impact

• Shape the Cost of the UK’s Greenest Road Project
• ➡️ If you’re a Cost Estimator who values purpose, collaboration and shared success, this is a rare opportunity to contribute to an infrastructure programme that genuinely puts people, communities and sustainability first.
• ➡️ Join the Lower Thames Crossing – a nationally significant, pathfinder scheme designed to be the greenest road project ever delivered in the UK.
• ➡️ In this role, your expertise will help shape how one of the UK’s most complex infrastructure programmes is delivered – financially, socially and environmentally.

Responsibilities

• Reviewing and assuring contractors’ bottom up cost forecasts, helping ensure clarity, consistency and trust.
• Bringing together cost, risk and schedule information into clear, shared client forecasts aligned with Performance Measurement Baseline guidance.
• Offering thoughtful, evidence based insight that supports procurement, delivery planning and commercial confidence.
• Delivering impact that is visible, valued and closely connected to the wider team’s success.

We Offer

• Competitive salary aligned to your experience and RICS accreditation.
• ⌚ Flexible working arrangements — hybrid, parttime, flexible hours and locations.
• 24 days holiday plus the option to buy up to 10 additional days.
• Up to 10% employer pension contributions.
• ⚕️ Comprehensive health cover including single medical cover & Digital GP (with options to add dependants).
• Family planning support including fertility healthcare.
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