Estimating Assistant - Infrastructure

London, England, United Kingdom

12/16/2024

Mace is an international consultancy and construction company that has delivered world class projects since 1990. Today we employ over 5,000 people across five global hubs in Europe, Middle East North Africa & India, North America, Asia Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa.

We support our people who are aiming to achieve an academic or professional qualification that will help them develop personally and deliver to the highest standard for our clients. At Mace you can deepen your knowledge, expand your skills and define your own path.

At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities and societies across the globe. To learn more about our purpose, culture, and priorities, visit our strategy site.

Within our consult business, we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project delivery consultancy to unlock the potential in every project.

Our Values Shape The Way We Consult And Define The People We Want To Join Us On Our Journey, They Are

• Safety first - Going home safe and well
• Client focus - Deliver on our promise
• Integrity - Always do the right thing
• Create opportunity - For our people to excel
  
  

The estimating function shall ensure that cost plans are robust, integrated, represent value for money, and are supported by consistent internal and external benchmarking data. It will also ensure that the scope of services is held as an integrated baseline (scope, cost & time) within infrastructure project controls systems. The estimating function shall also assist in pricing risk and change values.

You’ll Be Responsible For

• Supporting the estimating and cost planning process for the whole or a section of works.
• Supporting estimating plan and strategy with the team and ensuring compliance.
• Preparing Initial cost plans at pre-concept and concept stages.
• Refining the cost plans through all stages to detailed design arriving at full estimates.
• Liaising with contractors to obtain cost advice and data.
• Benchmarking both cost and functional spaces and quantities.
• Cost data analysis, including researching appropriate cost data for use within the estimates and refining to reflect project specific requirements.
• Identifying key cost drivers and briefing the team to drive design to a solution within budget.
• Producing reports at various stages.
• Working with design and construction teams and providing commercial and cost advice.
• Change control contribution to ensure budgets reflect the current scope.
• Challenge and contribute to alternative solutions to ensure budgets are maintained.
• Value management and value engineering, commercial input.
• Understanding of three point estimating techniques including application of levels of uncertainty, risk, and modelling of estimates.
• Ability to produce cost plans and estimates that take into account site specific requirements, construction methods, and allowances for temporary and abortive works.
• Supporting the development of estimating and cost planning risk models and assess the potential time and cost impact of same.
• Understanding of cost drivers associated with major projects and the impact these could have on cost plans and estimates.
• Ability to determine, define, and record all assumptions, exclusions, data sources, and caveats.
  
  

You’ll Need To Have

• Experience in the infrastructure, rail, highways, utilities, energy, defence industries either in major civils or buildings or both.
• Major projects experience an advantage.
• Extensive estimating or cost planning experience with a contractor or consultancy.
• Worked previously with design teams with understanding of what drives design decisions.
• Ability to analyse cost and quantity data including key drivers.
• Working as a team member alongside the project manager to help drive projects to the right solutions within budget.
• Understanding and experience of benchmarking.
• Ability to build estimates from first principles.
• Producing estimates from benchmark data and limited information.
• Working with detailed design to produce estimate.
• Working with limited design information with ability to understand what is not detailed on the drawings.
• Preparation of reports which are clear and identify key messages and costs.
  
  

You’ll Also Have

• Degree qualified or working towards a degree – quantity surveying or appropriate related.
  
  

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all of the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.

We are also open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.