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Job No. BBUK17789
Power T&D
Work Winning
Balfour Beatty is seeking an experienced Multi‑Utilities Estimator to join our Power Transmission & Distribution business. This role will focus primarily on estimating for Multi‑Utility diversion schemes, with an immediate emphasis on a significant volume of work linked to the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) project. The successful candidate will also provide ad‑hoc estimating support across the wider Power T&D portfolio, including Transmission and Distribution cabling and substation projects.
Role Purpose
The role is responsible for managing all aspects of scheme development and pricing for Multi‑Utility (Power, Gas, Water & Telecoms) asset diversions associated with some of the largest infrastructure projects currently being delivered in the UK. You’ll ensure that tenders are prepared and submitted in accordance with client expectations, producing accurate, competitive, and fully compliant submissions aligned to Gated Lifecycle, Bid Governance, and Audit processes.
This position provides both pre‑ and post‑contract estimating support, working collaboratively across strategy, commercial, operations, procurement, finance, insurance, and legal functions to ensure clarity and alignment with client requirements.
Balfour Beatty supports hybrid working across the UK, however due to the nature of the LTC project, candidates based in the South or East of England or able to spend significant periods on site are preferred.
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.
Balfour Beattys Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions. With experience and expertise across the full spectrum of the electricity grid our teams have capability across overhead lines, cable tunnels, distribution networks and substations. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support clients in the development of some of the worlds most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. 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. Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
