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Costain supports Energy Nuclear Generation to maximise the lifespan of its eight UK nuclear power stations. Costain's role is to provide project controls and commercial managed services to portfolios and programmes of work across all of EDF's eight UK nuclear power stations. As part of this work Costain will develop people capability in core project control skills and provide specialist support to EDFs Central Technical Organisation to improve project performance and deliver cost efficiencies.

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Support the development of an estimate strategy through a gated project process.
Prepare and develop estimates and basis of estimates for investment strategy and feasibility studies through a project gated process.
Produce estimates in compliance with EDF Energy standards and procedures, and issue estimates in accordance with the project life cycle, including reports specific to project needs.
Regular interfacing and integration with the Planning Engineer to ensure alignment between estimate and Project Plan.
Collate and analyse historical cost data for bench-marking purposes.
Participate in the Project Risk Management process and when required, prepare/assist the production of Project Risk Logs for input to the estimates.
Carry out estimate uncertainty and event risk analysis and modelling to provide provision for uncertainty (contingency) recommendations.
Provide input to the tender review process, including claim evaluations and valuations of significant changes
Contribute to the drafting and updating of project documents (PDD, IRM papers etc.) to ensure that they contain the relevant estimate data for controlling the project schedule, costs and variances.

An analytical bias with the ability to provide solutions to issues.
Ability to co-ordinate disparate information into a coherent estimate
Able to develop strong internal and external relationships and able to deliver against stakeholder expectations.
Ideally some understanding of estimating methodologies coordinating information & interpreting technical specifications and engineering drawings of varying complexity, to produce a coherent & accurate estimate.
Technical aptitude with a some understanding of Project Management, Engineering, Regulatory, Procurement, Construction, Installation and Commissioning activities and their relation to project costs.
Knowledge of preparation or assessment of applications, valuations, cost/value reconciliation.
Strong MS excel skills and a working knowledge of MS Word and Power Point.
Experience in the use of Estimating software packages. (Desirable)
Working knowledge of SAP would be desirable.

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

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