Principal Cost Estimator

Company: JACOBS
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Location: Greater London
Job Description:

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.
Posted: April 5th, 2026