Estimator/Bid Lead - Balvac - #1784537

About The Role

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for an Estimator/Bid Lead to join our Balvac team working on projects across the UK

For over 90 years our Balvac business has been delivering innovative structural repair, strengthening, protection and maintenance solutions to sustainably extend the life of our nation's infrastructure.

Our clients include some of the major local authorities across the UK. These services have also been successfully transferred into various other key sectors including rail, marine, coastal, power, industrial and commercial sectors.

With an ever-increasing portfolio and a major expansion planned, we are looking to identify several talented individuals (Contracts Engineers, Site Agents, Project Managers & Specialist Services Engineers) based across the country to join this high-octane energy driven team.

Interested? Then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn revenues last year and achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores along with unrivalled employee engagement statistics.

What you'll be doing

As An Estimator/Bid Lead, You Will Be Expected To Work Closely With The Pre-construction Manager, Commercial, Operational, Engineering And Technical Teams To

• Review enquiries and associated documents such as Scoping brief; contract terms and conditions; technical reports; specifications; drawings; health, safety, quality, and sustainability documents
• Prepare and deliver internal presentations for briefing others
• Undertake the necessary governance associated with Pre-construction (bid/ no bid decisions)
• Develop a Pre-construction strategy to deliver the Client’s anticipated deliverables within the necessary timescales
• Plan the project and prepare the pre-construction and delivery stage programmes. Organise and undertake site visits as appropriate.
  
  

Skills

As the Bid Lead, you will be responsible for developing your skills to a point where you can take ultimate responsibility, ownership and accountability of the below tasks:

• Determine scope from tender documents
• Undertake take-offs from drawings
• Prepare an estimate for the project and any associated pricing documents (e.g. bill of quantities, activity schedule)
• Identify, eliminate and mitigate risk. Document risk on a risk register
• Produce and manage subcontract enquiries
• Prepare offer letters for submission including methodology summaries
• Compare received order against submission.
  
  

Who we're looking for

You Will Have The Following

• Must be a self-motivated and disciplined individual
• Capable of working remotely but collaboratively within a high performing team
• Excellent numeracy and writing skills
• Good and confident communicator. Liaison required at all levels, internally and externally
• Understand the value of team-working and be prepared to assist others to meet their own commitments and deadlines
• Have a sufficient understanding of the New Engineering Contract (NEC)
• An understanding of standards, specifications, construction techniques and methodologies in the specialist markets (structural repair and maintenance) would be an advantage.
  
  

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

Benefits

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
  
  

About Us

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [email protected]