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In this role, you will provide technical guidance to promote consistency across projects, customers, and business lines. You will provide detailed review and support to capital cost estimates, cash flow, working capital assessments, and to the preparation of estimate documentation. Your recommendations ensure accurate cost estimations and will be essential in driving project profitability and success. 

• Lead the development, review and validation of civil and marine direct discipline estimates, including earthworks, concrete, structural works, piling, dredging, reclamation, quay walls, marine facilities, temporary works, logistics and associated construction support activities.
• Review design criteria, drawings, specifications, constructability inputs and quantity take-offs to confirm scope completeness, estimate maturity, allowances and assumptions.
• Develop and benchmark labour, equipment, material and subcontractor pricing using historical data, market intelligence, productivity norms and project-specific execution strategies.
• Define estimating methodologies for complex or partially defined civil/marine scopes, including conceptual, order-of-magnitude, budgetary and detailed estimates.
• Coordinate with engineering, construction, procurement, contracts, planning, risk and project controls teams to align quantities, methods, schedules, indirects, escalation, contingency and basis of estimate documentation.
• Support the preparation and review of indirect cost, non-manual, construction management, temporary facilities, marine logistics, mobilisation/demobilisation and owner/contractor support cost estimates.
• Evaluate subcontractor and vendor quotations for completeness, exclusions, qualifications, commercial alignment and pricing reasonableness.
• Support bid evaluations, proposal reviews, change order estimates, cost trends, value engineering studies and alternative delivery or execution strategy assessments.
• Provide estimating input to cash flow, working capital, project funding, contingency and risk-based cost assessments.
• Act as a senior discipline estimating specialist, providing technical guidance and quality review to promote consistency, accuracy and governance across projects, proposals and business lines.
• Lead or support estimate reviews and presentations with project management, functional leadership, customers and senior stakeholders, clearly communicating estimate basis, key assumptions, risks, opportunities and confidence levels.
• Identify estimate risks, opportunities, exclusions, qualifications and interface issues, and support the development of contingency recommendations and mitigation strategies.
• Prepare, review and maintain basis of estimate documentation, estimate plans, pricing notes, quantity summaries, benchmarking records and estimate close-out/lessons learned information.
• Mentor less experienced estimators and contribute to improving estimating tools, templates, norms, databases and work processes for civil and marine scopes.

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 10-13  years of relevant experience or 14-17 years of relevant work experience

• Approximately 15 years of relevant estimating, cost engineering, construction, project controls or engineering experience, with significant exposure to major civil and/or marine infrastructure projects.
• Strong technical understanding of civil and marine construction methods, productivity drivers, plant and equipment selection, temporary works, marine logistics, access constraints, weather/tidal impacts and constructability considerations.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare, review and present estimates across multiple stages of project development, from conceptual and order-of-magnitude estimates through to detailed execution or proposal estimates.
• Advanced capability in quantity development, first-principles estimating, unit rate build-ups, benchmarking, subcontractor/vendor pricing analysis and estimate validation.
• Sound knowledge of estimate classifications, basis of estimate development, contingency, escalation, risk analysis, cash flow, working capital and change order/trend estimating.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, geotechnical information, construction schedules, procurement strategies, contract requirements and execution plans.
• High proficiency in estimating systems, spreadsheets and data analysis tools, with the ability to develop clear estimate summaries, pricing models and management review materials.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex estimating assumptions, risks and cost drivers to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively across engineering, construction, procurement, contracts, planning, risk and project controls functions in a major project or proposal environment.
• Applicants must be Australian Citizens and eligible to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Security Clearance.

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