Estimator

Reading, England, United Kingdom

1/9/2025

We have an exciting opportunity for a skilled Project Estimator or Quantity Surveyor with relevant pre-contract experience to join our team and lead the commercial estimates of a wide range of civil engineering and water/wastewater projects throughout the Thames Water Region.

You will be adding your Pre-Contract expertise to our team in the Thames region. We are working on clean and wastewater projects for our capital delivery framework, pushing towards AMP8, with lots of work to price across the area.

As our new Project Estimator/Quantity Surveyor, you'll work closely with our framework teams and operational colleagues to develop estimates, while also being an integral part of our larger Bidding and Estimating department.

Allowing you the chance to gain hands-on experience from the people delivering the projects and benefit from the support of our experienced estimators across the company.

For this role, we are looking for applicants that offer:

• Experience in a similar role from a civils/construction/water background, with emphasis on Pre-contract estimating/costing.
• Attention to detail and commercially astute
• Familiarity of working with NEC/JCT Form of Contract
• Understanding of commercial, contractual and procurement processes
  
  

With typical projects ranging in value from <£1m to in excess of £30m it presents you with a variety of schemes of differing scale, complexity, and scope.

What Can We Offer

• 26 days holiday plus bank holidays with the option to buy and carry over
• Flexible pension contributions up to 5% employee 10% employer
• Generous car allowance
• Agile working
• Life assurance of 4 x salary
• Income protection
• Private medical insurance
• Health cash plan
• Annual professional institution subscription costs
• Career and professional development opportunities
  
  

If you're a talented and driven, looking for an opportunity to take your career to the next level, we would love to hear from you!

Applicants from outside the UK must have a suitable visa or the Right to Work in the UK to be considered for this job.