Principal Estimator
Job Description
About KBR, Inc.
We bring together the best and brightest to deliver technology and solutions that help our customers accomplish their most critical missions and objectives. In doing so, we strive to create a better, safer and more sustainable world.
KBR is looking for motivated and driven individuals to join our Integrated Solutions team in Leatherhead, Surrey. Our team provides engineering, procurement, construction, and program management services for hydrocarbons and energy transition industries - both onshore and offshore. We offer holistic and value-added solutions across the entire asset life cycle.
A Career at KBR could see you:
• working in a diverse and challenging environment as part of a team that strives to deliver high-quality and innovative engineering solutions to our customers.
• develop your skills and gain experience in an inclusive environment which will open a range of career opportunities
• join a Team of Teams of passionate professionals, working together in a collaborative and supportive environment that encourages creative problem-solving and teamwork to make a positive impact to the world.
• Work for a company that understands the importance of work-life balance and empowers employees to have the time and the tools they need to deliver their goal.
What do KBR offer?
We offer challenging opportunities, competitive salaries, and a comprehensive benefits package that includes Private Medical Insurance, Employer Pension Contributions, Life Assurance, Personal Accident cover, Income Protection and much more. We also offer flexible working arrangements and the opportunity to make a real difference in the world.
What you will be doing.
As part of the Project Controls & Estimating team, you will be involved in the preparation of all classes of Capital Cost Estimates by the application of recognized methodologies and industry practices relating to hydrocarbon and Energy Transition projects. You will define the estimating scope for a project and prepare an estimate plan of work, to identify all deliverables and interfaces with other disciplines to ensure planned completion and the estimate is developed in sufficient detail and is in accordance with good estimating practice.
Other responsibilities include:
• Ensure an estimate is constructed to provide accurate costs for all components in agreed project WBS and CBS
• Access and develop labour rates and productivity for global projects.
• Conduct detailed analysis and benchmarking to support final estimate.
• Manage and maintain all documentation received, used in the estimate to ensure, auditability and back up of the estimate.
• Provide support with independent reviews of other estimates.
• Have an understanding and input into the cost risk assessment of a project.
• Manage input (schedule and quality) from engineering, procurement, and construction disciplines to ensure compliance with estimate plan and procedures to deliver compliant estimates.
• For an assigned projects, reporting to the Project Manager, you will be responsible for directing, organising and supervising assigned estimators
• The Principal Estimator will primarily report into the Estimating Director at a department level and providing support and mentoring of junior estimators.
What You’ll Need:
• Experience in Study, Pre-FEED, FEED and EPC estimates
• Competence and experience in detailed presentation of the estimate to clients and management • Knowledge of all estimating techniques
• Must exercise skill in communications and interpersonal relationships with staff in Estimating and in other workgroups.
• Knowledge and experience in estimating software including ACCE
Life at KBR.
We attract the best minds as our expertise thrives on creativity, resourcefulness and collaboration. That is how we supply our clients with cutting-edge solutions. We are a diverse team of experienced projects managers, technical specialists, commercial professionals and engineers. Competitive benefits and professional development, we empower people to use all their potential, creating meaningful change for themselves and clients.
When you become part of the KBR team, your opportunities are endless. Through collaboration with our customers, we’re defining tomorrow’s challenges, then providing the solutions and services to overcome those challenges, always maintaining our commitment to total safety and reliability.
At KBR, we partner with government and industry clients to provide purposeful and comprehensive solutions with an emphasis on efficiency and safety. With a full portfolio of services, proprietary technologies and expertise, our employees are ready to handle projects and missions throughout their entire lifecycle, from planning and design to sustainability and maintenance. Whether at the bottom of the ocean or in outer space, our clients trust us to deliver the impossible on a daily basis.
As the needs of the world change, we’re ready to respond and guide the way forward with strategic, sustainable, and technological advancements grounded in more than a century of practical application and execution.
KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
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