Job Title: Senior Estimator
Location: Warrington, Cheshire + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Estimator, at our Warrington site.
The role
As a Senior Estimator, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will have integral role as part of the Business Winning team.
Day-to-day, you’ll will be responsible for planning, creating and managing tenders from initiation through completion in order to determine required resources and use formal processes and tools to create resources, budgets, risks and changes.
1. Generating the cost and other resources needed to complete a tender within a defined scope, by considering all activities and elements required for a tender and calculating a total amount to determine a tender’s price
2. Compile estimates, in line with best practice, by assessing the materials, labour and equipment that will be required based on a variety of historical and current information sources.
3. Working alongside the planning, finance, risk and procurement teams, to name a few, to successfully compile the required commercial return. These may be in the form of rates for a framework, a full activity schedule for an EPC contract, etc.
4. Provision of input to in series of governance reviews to enable successful tender completion and sign off
This role is full time, thirty-seven hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with three days in the office and two days working from home, based at our Birchwood, Warrington site.
Essential experience of the Senior Estimator
5. Strong experience with estimating, cost analysis, or a related field
6. Deep understanding of the industry, e.g. engineering, construction, manufacturing, or defence – very relevant
7. Proficiency with estimating software, strong Excel / data analysis skills, and familiarity with cost databases
8. Evidence of working on complex, large-scale projects, frameworks, etc.
9. Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and possibly managing or mentoring junior staff
10. Proven ability to analyse drawings / specs and develop accurate cost projections
Qualifications for the Senior Estimator
11. APM qualification would be advantageous
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at
What We Offer
12. Generous holiday allowance
13. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
15. Employee share scheme
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually
20. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
21. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of