Whittens is an Australian owned and operated multidisciplined civil construction company, proudly offering over 24 years’ experience throughout Western Australia, New South Wales and Queensland.

With a growing reputation, we continue to partner with some of Australia’s major Infrastructure, Mining, Oil and Gas and Defence clients, specialising in the delivery of large scale and technically complex concrete construction, roadworks, earthworks NPI and piping works projects.

Our mission, as an agile and people centric business, is to be the market leader in civil contracting, achieving sustainable growth through high performing people who safely deliver successful project outcomes for their clients.

Your Role
Reporting to the Executive Director, the Estimating Manager will assume a hands-on position pricing a range of civil construction infrastructure projects. The ideal candidate will have experience across a wide range of Civil projects including FRP, Concrete and Earthworks.

The successful candidate will have leadership capability and be empowered to build and manage a high performing national team, as well as the technical expertise to provide first class estimation and contract management capabilities.

Your Responsibilities

• Produce detailed cost estimates
• Working and leading the tenders' team to build successful tender submissions
• Provide tender construction schedules using Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project
• Create Project Execution methodologies that align with the cost estimate and construction schedule
• Overseeing the pre-contracts gate process end to end
• Build, mentor and lead the tenders team
• Completing material take offs
• Prepare and price estimates in their entirety and developing detailed project budgets
• Peer reviewing estimates to ensure accuracy
• Preparing risk and opportunity analysis prior to tendering
• Preparing tender assumptions, clarifications, and queries
• Assist with negotiating contracts and agreements
• Work in collaboration with operational subject matter experts to ensure tenders manage and consider risks appropriately
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with all key stakeholders
• Efficiently performing all stages of an estimate including methodology, estimate organisation, take-off, pricing, review, and closeout
• Facilitate project handover including cost coding and variation pricing

About you:

• Demonstrated experience in a similar Senior Estimating role within the Civil Construction industry with exposure to self-perform Civil tenders ranging from $15-100M
• Formal tertiary educations in QS, Civil Engineering, Project Management, Contracts Management or similar - Desirable
• A minimum of 10 years estimating experience
• Understanding of the National Code of Practice, procurement and construction methodology
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and lead a high functioning team
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Expert Estimating software - Preferred

Whittens is committed to workplace diversity. We support women in civil construction, champion Indigenous partnerships and encourage people of all cultural backgrounds to apply.