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Job No. BBUK16240
Highways
Quantity Surveying & Commercial
Join Connect Plus Services and play a key role in maintaining one of the UK’s busiest transport networks. As part of the Commercial Team within our Change Team, you will support the operation and maintenance of the M25 network, including all adjoining trunk and slip roads, on behalf of Connect Plus and National Highways.
As a Senior Estimator, you will be responsible for preparing accurate, detailed estimates for heavy civil engineering and highways maintenance projects, supporting informed decision-making and budget planning across the long-term maintenance programme. This role offers exposure to complex infrastructure projects and an opportunity to influence cost management, value engineering, and operational efficiency.
You will review technical reports, drawings, and specifications to produce accurate costings for materials, labour, and equipment. Using your expertise, you will translate measurements from drawings and specifications into Bills of Quantities and Schedules of Rates, while interrogating design options and identifying value solutions.
You will record assumptions, evaluate risks and opportunities from a pricing and budgetary perspective, and collaborate with colleagues across the Change Team, wider CPS organisation, other Balfour Beatty business units, and the supply chain to understand methodologies and optimise project outcomes.
Maintaining and updating the estimating library using Candy software, you will mentor and support more junior team members, ensuring high standards of accuracy, consistency, and adherence to company policies and procedures.
We are seeking a Senior Estimator with a proven background in infrastructure contracting, ideally within the highways term-maintenance sector. You will have experience estimating heavy civil engineering projects, with strong knowledge of pricing, quantification methods, and cost planning.
You must be proficient with Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, and Outlook, and hold a valid CSCS card. Strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential, enabling you to build effective relationships across internal teams, supply chain partners, and stakeholders.
You will bring a structured, analytical approach to estimating, with the ability to evaluate risk, identify opportunities, and provide accurate cost information to support strategic and operational decisions. Previous experience using Candy Estimating Software is required to ensure consistency and efficiency in cost management.
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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?
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…
Connect Plus Services (CPS) brings together the collective strength of our parent companies - Balfour Beatty, Atkins and Egis Road Operation UK. With around 600 people, based at eight locations across the M25 network, we work on behalf of Connect Plus and National Highways to manage the operation of the M25 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, from routine maintenance to managing the whole-life requirement of thousands of assets across the network.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
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: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
