With significant investment planned throughout AMP8, our work-winning teams are at the forefront of developing solutions that improve infrastructure and deliver lasting benefits for customers and communities. We are looking for experienced Estimators to support a varied pipeline of projects, providing the commercial insight and cost certainty that underpin successful project delivery.

The Role

As an Estimator, you will play a critical role in helping us secure and deliver major infrastructure projects. Working collaboratively with technical, commercial and delivery teams, you will develop accurate cost estimates, provide strategic cost advice and challenge project assumptions to ensure solutions are both competitive and deliverable.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce CAPEX estimates across optioneering, outline and detailed design stages.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to define scope and buildability.
• Engage with supply chain partners to obtain accurate quotations.
• Prepare estimates, advise and challenge design requirements and cost impacts.
• Support delivery teams with estimating strategy and alliance processes.
• Manage priorities and expectations across multiple stakeholders.
• Mentor and support junior estimators.
• Potential line management responsibilities.
• Develop and maintain cost models and libraries.
• Identify efficiencies and implement best practices.
• Maintain and analyse data within cost bases.

Caring and investing in you

Our values have been embedded at Barhale for over 40 years and they are our guiding principle regarding how we care and invest in people. Our values are our commitment to being a people-centric company.

As a Gold Investors in People company and a Sunday Times 100 Best Company to Work For, we are committed to investing in people. We are passionate about creating a working environment where people are supported throughout their careers, where people can enjoy security and be part of a company that cares about them.

From the moment you join us, your wellbeing and career aspirations will be supported by:

• Competitive salary
• Company pension
• Life assurance
• Private medical
• 25 days annual leave in addition to 8 public bank holidays and loyalty days
• 8 hours volunteering
• Employee assistance programme to support your mental, physiological and financial wellbeing
• Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice
• Company car/green car scheme/car allowance/van (dependent on position)
• Leadership and management training and coaching
• Regular line management engagement and appraisal to support your career progression
• Development supported by internal and externally delivered training
• Flexible working arrangements
• Annual salary review
• Continuous service awards

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About Barhale

Barhale is a business founded on family values having been established by our Chairman, Dennis Curran in 1980. We are one of the largest privately owned civil engineering and infrastructure specialists in the UK, with over 40 years of experience in providing design, civil engineering and maintenance services working across multiple sectors including:

• Water
• Transport
• Built environment
• Energy

We operate as a tier one partner for blue chip, regulated and private clients, working as part of large frameworks, joint ventures and alliances, as well as on individual standalone projects developing long-term relationships based on delivering to the Barhale values which have been integral to our business since their inception in 1985.

Our direct delivery model is at the core of everything we do as we believe that people are our greatest asset. Therefore, we robustly source, train and retain all our own frontline delivery teams as well as management and support services. We employ over 1,200 employees nationwide.

We possess a range of specialist skills to support our civil engineering and infrastructure activities including:

• Tunnelling
• MEICA
• Temporary and permanent design
• Steel-fabrication
• Signs (design and fabrication)
• Health & safety equipment and products including PPE

Why join Barhale?

• As Gold Investors in People, we are committed to a high standard of people practices, creating an inclusive environment and ensuring cultural alignment to business strategy, ethos and philosophies
• Job security, long-term secured work through various frameworks and large infrastructure schemes
• Broad range of civil engineering and mechanical and electrical schemes across some of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects and clients
• Strong career progression as demonstrated by our track record in promoting from within as we believe this is a key driver to our success

Want to find out more? Visit https://www.barhale.co.uk/ or watch our showcase here.