Our Business

With a heritage spanning over 160 years, Laing O'Rourke is an internationally-focused engineering enterprise with world-class capabilities. We operate an integrated business model comprising the full range of engineering, construction and asset management services delivering single-source solutions for some of the world's most prestigious public and private organisations.

Committed to a sustainable future, Laing O'Rourke is re-thinking the way the built environment is designed, delivered and operates - collaborating with world-leading industry and academic partners, bringing innovative new solutions, ensuring the most efficient long-term engineering solutions.

Role Context including; Project, Likely Timeframe of project, Work Environment and Location

• Securing a potentially profitable work stream for the business by ensuring that bids are prepared in a timely manner, are attractive to our customers, and meet LOR Group requirements.
• Operating in an efficient manner by utilising appropriate Digital Engineering (DE) tools and Estimating software, promoting consistent practices and using feedback from live or recently completed projects as appropriate.
• Understand and drive through the 'Value Proposition' through opportunities, including Self Delivery where appropriate, Digital Engineering and meeting the DfMA agenda
• Seeking to improve competitiveness by innovative thinking and engaging Engineering Excellence as appropriate
• Engaging all disciplines/functions in the work winning process; Design, Commercial, Engineering, Digital Engineering (DE), Procurement, Engineering Excellence Group (EnEx.G), Planning & HS&E

Role Purpose

Ensuring development and training needs of staff are identified and provided.  Ensure long term succession planning of staff in department.  Providing staff with guidance on their job responsibilities.  Provision of general support information to estimators.  Allocation of appropriate estimating resources to bids.  Initial appraisal of bid documentation and establish bid strategies from earliest possible stage.  Ensuring all bids are subject to proper adjudication

Key Deliverables and Accountabilities

• Deputise for Estimating Leader when necessary
• Assist in identifying the level of staff resources required to deliver the estimating function for the business. Assist in the recruitment, and retention of staff.
• Ensuring development and training needs of staff are identified and provided
• Contribute to the long term succession plan for the estimating staff
• Estimating function on specific large-scale or complex projects.
• Ensure estimating resource comply/support the core process and internal governance process
• Providing estimating staff with guidance on their job responsibilities
• Providing leadership for small teams of estimators on large-scale projects. Team Leader in prime cost evaluation. Work with the Bid Leader to support leadership on bids.
• Assist development and training needs of estimating staff are identified and provided. Provide robust and structured training of assistant and trainee estimating grades.
• Provision of general support information to estimating teams
• Allocation of appropriate estimating resources, where necessary, to prepare pre-bid submissions/pre-qualification documents.
• Ensure consistent preparation and compliance of the mandatory 'Executive Dashboards' and 'EFA' sheets for all bids.
• Initial appraisal of bid documentation and establishment of appropriate bid strategies with Bid Managers/ Sector Leader from earliest possible stage. Ensuring all bids are subject to proper adjudication 
• Successful post tender negotiations
• In conjunction with marketing function prepare pre bid submissions/pre-qualification documents
• Act as a role model for the team, and mentor the estimating team. Motivate team.
• Liaison with clients and external consultants
• Ensuring all bids are subject to proper adjudication.
• Advise on finalisation matters of risk, qualification and margin.
• Contribute jointly with BU Leader, Sector Leaders and appropriate Functional Lead in the evaluation/ attractiveness of new business opportunities.

Technical Capabilities

• Procurement – exposure to various mechanisms for the procurement of projects
• Pricing – expert in establishing a forecast of net prime cost, preliminary costing and cost planning
• Package management – expert in skills in supply chain enquiry generation and management
• Bid Administration – expert in managing the tendering and estimating process

Experience

• Previous site experience outside of Estimating Role in either an Engineering or Commercial Role
• Previous experience of leading/managing team's of estimators across the bid process
• Previous experience of managing medium and long term estimating resources as part of leading a team.
• Previous experience of recruiting and retaining staff as a function
• Essential
• Ability to influence and develop winning strategies for tenders
• Excellent all round experience of estimating procedures through the life of an estimate, through until submission, post tender procedure, award and handover to the delivery team.
• Ability to lead complex/multi trade tenders through the settlement process
• Previous experience of managing tenders across a number of sectors / work types
• Full Corporate Membership / Fellowship of a recognised Masters Programme or MBA.

Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

About us:

Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com