Senior Estimator

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 (url removed) or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X:

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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 team

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