Estimator

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together. Role description: Our Nuclear team is looking for an experienced Cost Estimator to work as part of an integrated project controls team delivering annual £500m programme of nuclear work. The projects combine both new build and decommissioning within a structured collaborative environment working with colleagues who are focused on innovative solutions and teamwork where the focus is on delivery of programme outputs. As part of our Cost Management team, you'll be involved in a wide range of projects from global and high profile to small and impactful, ensuring they're delivered on time and to budget. Your expertise in planning, estimating, budgeting and managing costs will drive growth and smarter working. The role sits within our global business area Resilience. We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we're feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we're seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Role accountabilities: The main responsibilities of this role are to provide an effective cost estimating service to Project Managers and Alliance Managers. This includes participating in project reviews and audits to ensure compliance with company procedures, developing cost breakdown structures and supporting the development of work breakdown structures. The person in this role will provide estimates for all stages of a project life cycle using existing software, develop cost estimates based on norms or bottom-up approaches, and ensure that all qualifications, exclusions, and assumptions are captured in the estimates. They will also load estimating data into relevant systems, take lessons learned from internal and external sources, and maintain the cost database for corporate knowledge. Additionally, they will act as an independent verifier for cost estimates, be involved in tender assessments, quantify cost implications of emergent or additional project work, and support post-contract administration. Finally, they will participate in independent cost estimate reviews. Qualifications & Experience: Experience working as an Estimator ideally within the Nuclear sector, however if you have experience working in a regulated public sector environment (i.e. Water, Rail, Utilities etc.) we would still encourage you to apply. Experience utilising the NEC3/4 suite of contracts. Attainment of OR near attainment of relevant professional certification or chartered status. Why Arcadis? We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy. Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy. Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success. #LI-SP2