Senior Estimator
| Posting date: | 22 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35000-85000 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 August 2025 |
| Location: | United Utilities Framework (2021000082), PR5 6UP |
| Company: | J Murphy & Sons |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 22913-43539155 |
Summary
Murphy Murphy is a leading international, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 with a purpose to improve life by delivering world-class infrastructure. Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and America, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation; natural resources; energy and water.
Headquartered in London, Murphy has a number of related businesses – Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services. Murphy is a specialist in delivering pipelines, design, structural steel, tunnelling, fabrication, bridges and piling, and has a substantial holding of plant, equipment and facilities.
Murphy employs around 4,000 engineers, professional managers and skilled operatives around the world. Together, they work as ‘One Murphy’
- directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success. Visit www.murphygroup.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X: #MoretoMurphy
A day in the life of a Murphy Senior Estimator
- With support from the wider function be the primary lead on a large-scale programme of works
- Drive best practice throughout the function and into the wider bid structure
- Support junior team members with their professional development
- Establish and promote best practice in health, safety and environmental matters in conjunction with the SHEQ department.
- Attend project start-up meetings and make site visits.
- Produce enquiry schedules for scope of works & packages required from the tender documentation, drawings and specifications issued.
- Identify tender deliverables required from the Project Designers.
- Evaluate returned quotations from suppliers and where necessary enters into correspondence with suppliers to bring quotations in line with the project specification requirements.
- Prepares Bill of Quantities to appropriate methods of measurement.
- Prepares bottom-up estimate using industry/ company norms on an estimating system (Candy)
- Input to project risk register and attends a project risk meetings
- Attend tender price settlement meetings to present and explain estimate and its basis.
- Prepare commercial submission documentation.
- Attend Tender Handover meetings and prepare tender handover documentation.
- Facilitate and manage the successful development of solutions to problems within estimates.
- As necessary provide support and respond to tender queries made by project team personnel.
- Attend meetings with clients to plan, promote and negotiate proposals. Record all changes to the tender price required following negotiations.
- Review and check contract documentation to ensure it accurately reflects the offer made.
- Develop and manage less experienced employees
- Helps develop the company estimating database.
- Helps generate effective feedback on estimates and actual costs with the project teams
Still interested, does this sound like you?
- Experienced in water related engineering projects
- Chartered status
- Experienced in managing others, including Estimators
- Proven successful estimating experience in civil and electrical engineering
- Experienced in bottom up pricing
- Extensive variety in types of work priced
- Preference for good knowledge of Candy estimating software
- Personal drive and tenacity to get the job done, in the right way
Headquartered in London, Murphy has a number of related businesses – Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services. Murphy is a specialist in delivering pipelines, design, structural steel, tunnelling, fabrication, bridges and piling, and has a substantial holding of plant, equipment and facilities.
Murphy employs around 4,000 engineers, professional managers and skilled operatives around the world. Together, they work as ‘One Murphy’
- directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success. Visit www.murphygroup.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X: #MoretoMurphy
A day in the life of a Murphy Senior Estimator
- With support from the wider function be the primary lead on a large-scale programme of works
- Drive best practice throughout the function and into the wider bid structure
- Support junior team members with their professional development
- Establish and promote best practice in health, safety and environmental matters in conjunction with the SHEQ department.
- Attend project start-up meetings and make site visits.
- Produce enquiry schedules for scope of works & packages required from the tender documentation, drawings and specifications issued.
- Identify tender deliverables required from the Project Designers.
- Evaluate returned quotations from suppliers and where necessary enters into correspondence with suppliers to bring quotations in line with the project specification requirements.
- Prepares Bill of Quantities to appropriate methods of measurement.
- Prepares bottom-up estimate using industry/ company norms on an estimating system (Candy)
- Input to project risk register and attends a project risk meetings
- Attend tender price settlement meetings to present and explain estimate and its basis.
- Prepare commercial submission documentation.
- Attend Tender Handover meetings and prepare tender handover documentation.
- Facilitate and manage the successful development of solutions to problems within estimates.
- As necessary provide support and respond to tender queries made by project team personnel.
- Attend meetings with clients to plan, promote and negotiate proposals. Record all changes to the tender price required following negotiations.
- Review and check contract documentation to ensure it accurately reflects the offer made.
- Develop and manage less experienced employees
- Helps develop the company estimating database.
- Helps generate effective feedback on estimates and actual costs with the project teams
Still interested, does this sound like you?
- Experienced in water related engineering projects
- Chartered status
- Experienced in managing others, including Estimators
- Proven successful estimating experience in civil and electrical engineering
- Experienced in bottom up pricing
- Extensive variety in types of work priced
- Preference for good knowledge of Candy estimating software
- Personal drive and tenacity to get the job done, in the right way