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 Director, we are recruiting a Senior Estimator to work on a range of Civil project tenders, in order to deliver timely and accurate estimates that ensure the on-going success of Whittens on the East Coast.

The successful candidate will provide first class estimation and contracts management capabilities as well as efficiently delivering estimates to the estimation team and developing and maintaining strong working relationships at all levels internally and externally.

Your Role

• Provide Senior Estimating Processes from end-to-end
• Prepare and price estimates in their entirety and develop detailed project budgets
• Peer review of estimates completed by other estimators to ensure accurate pricing is prepared
• Prepare risk and opportunity analysis prior to tendering
• Deliver tender assumptions, clarifications, and queries
• Identify issues affecting compliance and action to correct in conjunction with the commercial team, clearly communicating all risks, opportunities and tender conditions to senior management
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with the client, sub-contractors, suppliers, contractors and all other external bodies

About you:

• At least 10 years+ estimating experience in a similar role within the Australian Civil Contractor space -exposure to Concrete / FRP projects - A Must
• Formal tertiary educations in QS, Engineering, Project Management, Contracts Management or similar - Desirable
• Understanding of the National Code of Practice, procurement and construction methodology
• Expert Estimating software experience - Desirable
• Exposure to tenders on large scale projects from $15-100M
• Excellent attention to detail
• Self-starter and team player

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