Associate Estimator

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

The role of an Associate Estimator will take responsibility for leading best practice estimation, often with respect to large and complex infrastructure commissions covering both private and public sector clients. Your role will be to ensure that client objectives are met through the delivery of a value-added estimation service.

You will provide Estimation Services across a wide range of infrastructure sectors; including Energy, Water, Transportation and Defence.

You'll play a vital role in delivering Commercial/ Estimation commissions for our clients. The role will require the successful individual to be confident in liaising with and presenting to both clients and contractors. An attention to detail is essential, but with an ability to position commercial context around the detail that enables our clients to make wider, impactful business decisions is just as important.

The role will cover all aspects of the estimation process throughout the project from feasibility through to construction estimates and involve alignment with wider commercial functions such as assurance and intelligence.

The Commercial and estimation team is located across the UK and you will be based out of one of our regional offices to suite you.

As an Associate Consultant, you will need to be flexible and able to adapt to different client requirements at short notice including working remotely, and happy to travel both throughout the UK and abroad in the pursuit of successful delivery. Travel may at times be frequent and could require time away from your base location.

Here’s what you’ll do 

• Development of best in class estimation. Working with sector and commercial leads to demonstrate value to clients.
• Development of estimates and alignment with wider practices such as cost/ carbon intelligence and inherent risk etc.
• Able to lead the quantum assessment of projects
• Optioneering/ value engineering solutions - Enhance the offering around value optimisation
• Lead in the build up of rates based on known factors and aligned with market factors.
• Support in the development of budgets, baselines and forecasts.
• Estimation process and governance - Identification of process improvement opportunities.
• Interfacing and engagement with project staff including cost, commercial and controls.
• Management of stakeholders and their expectations through regular communications.
• Leading the development of estimation report and benchmarking. Clarity on assumptions and exclusions
• Presentation of outputs and recommendations to clients and their supply chain. 
• Mentoring junior staff and upskilling both internal and external stakeholders in the arena of cost and commercial assurance

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Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for: 

• Demonstrable experience of delivering estimation and commercial excellence to clients
• Demonstrated ability to lead a sector for estimation (energy, water, transport, defence).
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Experience in delivering cost and commercial activities.
• Strong report writing and presentation skills.
• Ability to work autonomously and in fast-paced environment, and able to adapt and meet challenges as they develop
• Strong interpersonal skills will be required to communicate with a variety of stakeholders with varying levels of seniority and engagement.
• Achieve the highest standards of professional competence and to demonstrate this ability in all dealings with clients and professional contacts, reinforcing the profile of the company.
• Drive performance standards and technical excellence through expert communication and effective use of the performance management process and AECOM technical practice networks.
• Maintain and develop good relationships with clients, take every opportunity to uphold and increase the profile of the firm as a provider of professional, premium quality services to the construction industry.
• Actively support the internal team and manage more junior staff on technically complex projects.
• Be aware of and develop marketing opportunities and where appropriate bring to the attention of Directors and the Business Development Department, in order that they may assist in following up potential leads enabling the development of new business

Qualifications

Required:

• Experience of undertaking estimation as part of an integrated, multi-organisation team.
• Experience of working as part of a commercial process and delivery.
• Experience of working within a client organisation, either directly or through a secondment arrangement.
• Good working knowledge of the NEC3 and NEC4 suite of contracts.
• Professional Qualified – ideally Project Management/ Engineering /Construction /Quantity Surveying Degree 

Desired:

• Chartered Status with the ICE, RICS, CIOB, or other equivalent institution
• Ability to achieve relevant and required security clearance.

Additional Information

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Ben Green. 

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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