[Hiring] Estimator @Costain Group

Role Description

Costain have won extensive work across the water sector to support the AMP8 investment cycle. The estimating function within the division is growing to facilitate the increased volume of works being forecast over the next 5 years, with projects varying from £5m to over £250m in value, covering both infrastructure and non-infrastructure assets on water and wastewater sites.

This key role will support confirmed demand with:

• Southern Water
• Northumbrian Water
• Severn Trent Water
• Thames Water
• United Utilities

This role will be home based and will be working closely with the pre-construction, commercial, engineering and operational teams to play a key role in:

• Identifying project requirements
• Assessing risk and opportunity
• Developing bids that support successful project delivery

Company Description

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by:

• Increasing capacity
• Improving customer service
• Safeguarding security
• Enhancing resilience
• Decarbonising
• Delivering increased efficiency

Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets:

• Future-shaping strategic consultancy
• Consultancy and advisory
• Digital technology solutions
• Asset optimisation
• Complex programme delivery

Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase. We do share individual feedback following an interview.

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that discloses they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

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