MEICA Estimator

Role overview

Binnies UK, part of the RSK Group, is seeking a MEICA Estimator to join its team. This position blends technical understanding with commercial judgement to help shape project scope, programme, and cost so that client solutions remain practical, sustainable, and cost-effective.

The first assignment will focus on estimating support within an established team working on project delivery through existing frameworks in the water industry. The work is mainly associated with non-infrastructure construction across wastewater and water treatment projects.

The wider estimating team also contributes to securing new design-and-build work for the delivery business. There may also be opportunities to support competitively tendered and negotiated projects, including future frameworks, across the water sector and other industrial industries.

Key responsibilities

• Stay up to date with current health, safety, and environmental obligations and any changes to them.
• Produce discipline-specific estimates by breaking down complex MEICA elements into measurable components.
• Help build, question, and refine the project solution so the estimate is grounded in a robust understanding of the work.
• Work closely with estimating colleagues and engineering or technical specialists to develop accurate submissions.
• Prepare and issue supply-chain enquiries, assess quotations received, and compile bid comparison tables and recommendations for the estimate basis.
• Create estimate summaries and supporting submission packs for estimate reviews, cost assurance, and client submissions.
• Develop indirect cost allowances such as staffing, preliminaries, surveys, and fixed-price escalation, ensuring the estimate is complete and aligned with the project or estimate plan.
• Support the transfer of estimating information to delivery teams during handover.
• Maintain strong working relationships with clients and partners.
• Develop and nurture relationships with important supply-chain contacts.
• Work across the wider business, including commercial, procurement, engineering, and construction teams.
• Contribute to risk and opportunity management activities.
• Capture lessons learned from delivered projects and apply them to future estimating work using cost data and feedback.
• Support ongoing improvement efforts aimed at increasing efficiency in departmental data and processes.
• Help maintain quotation records, cost-rate databases, cost curves, and cost models.

About you

This role sits at a vital point in the pre-construction and tendering process. It requires someone who can communicate effectively and use experience to interpret, challenge, and influence design and build decisions while developing the estimate and related deliverables.

You should bring practical estimating experience in MEICA works and be comfortable using a computer-based analytical estimating system, ideally CCS Candy Construction Software. You should also be able to complete first-principles measurement and cost estimating, and work across the full project life cycle from high-level budgets to detailed quantitative take-offs using the appropriate level of design information.

The ideal candidate will understand how to influence design and constructability, apply opportunity and risk management methods within estimates, and work collaboratively with others. Knowledge of the water sector would be helpful but is not essential.

Requirements

• Demonstrable estimating experience in MEICA works using a computerised analytical estimating platform, ideally CCS Candy Construction Software.
• Ability to carry out first-principles measurement and cost estimation.
• Experience preparing estimates at different project stages, from outline budgets to detailed take-offs.
• Capability to work with varying levels of design detail throughout the project lifecycle.
• Understanding of design development and constructability, with the ability to influence both where appropriate.
• Experience using risk and opportunity management methods within an estimate.
• Knowledge of the water industry is preferred, though not mandatory.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team.
• Well-organised, disciplined, and able to meet strict deadlines.
• Commercial awareness.
• Willingness to travel for site visits and office-based working, even though remote support is possible.

About the company

Binnies develops intelligent solutions through an integrated planning and design approach, aiming to deliver infrastructure that is functional, sustainable, and beneficial to communities and the environment. The organisation focuses on low-carbon and resilient water solutions, flood alleviation, environmental services, and data-driven insight.

Binnies is part of the RSK Group, a major environmental, engineering, and technical services business serving a broad range of sectors. The group has a people-first culture centred on development, recognition, collaboration, and long-term career growth.

The company is committed to inclusion and welcomes candidates from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

Benefits

• Private health insurance.
• Income protection cover.
• High street vouchers.
• Life assurance.
• Option to purchase additional annual leave.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Discounted gym membership.
• Mental health support.
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme.

Sectors

Environment and water. The business works across sustainable infrastructure, net zero delivery, water and wastewater treatment, watershed planning, resource movement, and digital transformation for more resilient solutions.