Job Description:

Role Title: Senior Estimator
Location: Dawlish

This is a senior preconstruction role with a leading Marine Civil Engineering contractor, responsible for leading the estimating function across complex maritime civil engineering projects.

The role combines hands-on estimating expertise with leadership of the bid process, ensuring that tenders are commercially robust, technically credible, and aligned with delivery capability. The Senior Estimator plays a key role in shaping pricing strategy, influencing win rates, and supporting long-term commercial success.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the preparation of accurate, competitive, and risk-aware cost estimates
• Drive bid quality, ensuring alignment between price, programme, and delivery strategy
• Influence tender strategy and commercial positioning
• Support win rate improvement through robust estimating practices
• Provide leadership and consistency across the estimating function
• Strengthen preconstruction capability across the wider business
• Take ownership of bid submissions from a commercial and estimating perspective
• Work closely with bid writers, planners, and engineers to deliver high-quality tenders
• Ensure alignment between cost, methodology, and programme
• Contribute to pricing strategy and competitive positioning

Essential Criteria:

• Ideally someone already working as a Senior Estimator managing complex marine civil engineering environments.
• Strong estimating experience within civil engineering, infrastructure, and marine
• Experience pricing complex, high-value projects
• Track record of leading or significantly influencing tender submissions
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary bid environments
• Advanced cost planning and estimating skills
• Experience working with NEC contracts (highly desirable)
• Willingness to travel to sites across the UK

Salary & Package:

• No fixed salary cap – market-leading packages considered
• Company car
• Bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

If you would like to discuss this in more detail, please call (phone number removed) and ask for Abbie or Jo.

Interested?

Please follow the instructions below to apply or for a confidential discussion, please contact Jo on (phone number removed).

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