Estimator / Senior Estimator

Location and Contact

Brighton or London, UKRecruiter contact: Alice Roostan

Overview of the Role

Mott MacDonald is a £2bn employee‑owned engineering, development and management consultancy with projects worldwide. The role involves planning, designing, delivering and caring for infrastructure across transport, energy, defence, water, environment and buildings, applying digital innovation and technical excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Hold responsibility for cost estimate development through all stages of project and programme lifecycles, from concept stage through to delivery and handover
• Undertake estimates using various techniques including first‑principle bottom‑up and parametric top‑down methods
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify, capture and record the scope of the estimating activities
• Establish Work Breakdown and Cost Breakdown Structures ensuring all scope elements are captured and recorded using industry standard methods of measurement such as CESMM4, NRM, RMM, HWMM
• Ensure all elements of the ‘cost stack’, including escalation, land and property, administration, direct costs, indirect costs and temporary works are considered in the estimate
• Support the identification of risk and opportunities and produce estimates for pre‑mitigation and post‑mitigation cost impacts
• Develop and support the calculation of contingency as a holistic view of risk, opportunity and estimating uncertainty within a project team environment
• Challenge sustainability and consider embodied and operational carbon within the proposed solution
• Produce basis of estimate reports to effectively communicate all estimating assumptions, dependencies and exclusions to stakeholders and end users
• Implement estimating best practice to ensure quality and governance is maintained and deliver estimating outputs to an exceptional level of technical competence within agreed timescales
• Ensure that leadership review, assurance and sign‑off is completed for all estimates
• Have a clear understanding of project finances and provide support to the project team in developing project financial models

Candidate Specification

• HNC/HND or degree qualified in an Engineering, Construction Management, or Quantity Surveying discipline or relevant industry experience
• Professional accreditation with AcostE/RICS/CIOB or working towards one
• Familiarity with estimating packages such as CANDY, CONQUEST, CAUSEWAY, COST OS, COST X, etc
• Working knowledge and demonstrable experience in the use and application of the Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Extensive experience working on infrastructure projects, with the ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with clients and colleagues
• Knowledge of the HMT Five Case Business Model and experience producing estimates from Strategic Outline Case through to Full Business Case for project and programme appraisals
• Working knowledge of carbon estimating including embodied, operational and whole life carbon
• Understanding of how TOTEX (Total Expenditure) is calculated, using Development, Capital, Operational and End‑of‑Life/Decommissioning Expenditure, to provide Whole Life Cost solutions to clients

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. is not offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. We welcome applications from candidates eligible for alternative immigration routes that do not require sponsorship.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, promoting fair employment practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute.

Benefits

• Financial wellbeing
  • Employee pension contributions matched between 4.5 % and 7 %
  • Life assurance equal to up to 4 × basic salary, with an option to increase to 6 ×
  • Income protection scheme providing financial benefit and support for long‑term illness or injury
  • Flexible benefits including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and wills writing
  • Annual bonus schemes
• Employee ownership
  • No external investors – a culture of shared success
  • Employees have a stake and a voice, with performance bonuses tied to success
  • Career growth increases ownership stake, recognising long‑term impact
  • Direct pathways to ownership for senior roles
• Health and wellbeing
  • Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues
  • Health cash plan for everyday health costs
  • Access to Peppy – menopause support for UK colleagues
  • Wellbeing program with support for you and your family
  • Salary flexibility to opt into health benefits, extendable to family
• Lifestyle
  • Minimum of 33–35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays
  • Holiday entitlement increases to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service
  • Employee saving schemes and retail discounts
• Enhanced family and carers leave
  • 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, two weeks paid paternity/partner leave
  • Shared parental leave matching maternity leave – up to 24 weeks paid at full pay
  • Up to five additional days leave for significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid
• Learning and development
  • Primary annual professional institution subscription
  • Opportunities to enhance technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training and self‑development
• Networks, communities and social outcomes
  • Advanced Employee Networks supporting LGBTQ+, gender, race, ethnicity, disability and parents/carers communities
  • Opportunities to make a difference within communities through social outcomes

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