Role Overview
Shape the Cost of the UK’s Greenest Road Project – a nationally significant, pathfinder scheme designed to be the greenest road project ever delivered in the UK.
Your Impact
- Reviewing and assuring contractors’ bottom‑up cost forecasts, ensuring 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.
- Managing the estimating function across all project phases in collaboration with delivery partners and a multi‑disciplinary team of more than 300 people.
- Preparing clear Basis of Estimate and Estimate Reports, developing estimating tools, spend profiling and client risk reviews.
What You’ll Need
- A degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Construction Management or a related field.
- Chartered status or actively working towards it.
- Demonstrable experience in estimating roles on major infrastructure projects, particularly nationally significant schemes such as HS2, Tideway, Crossrail or National Highways.
- Familiarity with National Highways PCF, IPA Cost Estimating Guidance, DfT TAG and Green Book principles.
- Experience with NEC contracts and public sector governance.
- Strong capability in first‑principles estimating, hybrid cost modelling, and structured Basis of Estimate documentation.
- Proficiency in estimating software such as CostX, PRISM, Excel‑based models and integration with planning and risk tools.
- A collaborative, considerate approach, with strong interpersonal skills and a genuine interest in how things fit together.
Benefits
- Competitive salary aligned to your experience and RICS accreditation.
- Flexible working arrangements – hybrid, part‑time, 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 and Digital GP (with options to add dependants).
- Family planning support including fertility healthcare.
- Employee Networks supporting colleagues from all backgrounds.
- Enhanced parental leave and free access to support programmes.
- Life assurance at 4× salary.
- Income protection for long‑term security.
- Wellbeing Hub with free access to Calm, Daily Burn and more.
- Professional Development – coverage of professional membership fees and extensive CPD opportunities.
Location & Employment
Grade: Principal Consultant.
Location: Grays, Essex | London.
Department: Commercial Funding & Finance (Programmes & Advisory).
If you’re looking for a role where your voice is heard, your contribution is trusted, and your work supports a greener future, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now and help deliver infrastructure that connects people and communities for generations to come.
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