Estimator

Would you like to be part of the Commercial function within BAE Systems? We currently have vacancies for Estimators at our sites in our sites in Portsmouth and Hillend.

As an Estimator, you will be part of the Commercial function, working closely with all areas of the business across a broad spectrum of tasks. You will support estimating activities across our lines of business, including the Support of Warships in Portsmouth, the provision of Engineering & Digital Services and the delivery Products & Training Services. Your primary involvement will be to support the business through the creation of cost and price estimates, relating to the management of changes on existing contracts and the capture of new business, through to the supply of critical data and analysis in support of key business decision making processes.

If you have a passion for numbers and pricing but are at the beginning of your career, we will provide a structured development plan and a mentor to support you as develop your existing skills. On the other hand if you are experienced with a track record of working on major programmes, we are keen for you to join our team and work with us on a number of exciting projects. Estimating is unique in the breadth of experience and understanding it can offer great opportunity to gain exposure across Maritime Services as well as the wider BAE Systems business.

Your main responsibilities as an Estimator will involve:

Supporting Bids, Campaigns or Projects teams, including the compilation of final costing and pricing information, whilst playing a key role in the team.

Determining the most effective and appropriate cost estimating methods to support the overall bid strategy.

Maintaining an independent top-down estimate for the scope of work for the bid.

Coordinating of cost and pricing activities to ensure all aspects of the programme and associated risks are fully costed and considered.

Validating or challenging of functional estimate returns through the compilation of independent views to drive affordable and profitable solutions.

Scenario and “what-if” analysis on a micro to macro level to understand estimate sensitivities and inform key business decisions.

Understanding the contract or tender terms and conditions and their impact on pricing, and communicating this to the bid teams.

Developing and maintaining internal and external Customer relationships, including playing a key role in Customer price investigations and negotiations.

Supporting supplier price investigations and negotiations to ensure value for money

Ensuring that Estimating Processes are understood and implemented throughout the wider organisation, leading to the creation of accurate and reliable estimating data.

Your skills and qualifications:

Background experience in areas such as Engineering, Planning, Project Controls, Commercial, Sales and Finance.

Strong skills in the use of Microsoft packages, specifically MS Excel, Project and PowerPoint.

Experience using SAP, ProPricer or any other analytical tools is desirable

Experience working in Defence or Manufacturing is desirable.

What we're looking for in you:

Numerate and Analytical? With the ability to model, assess and rationalise significant volumes of data, spotting key trends, statistical analysis and identifying problems and solutions along the way?

Flexible and Adaptable? With a willingness to tailor your approach to different situations, mixing drive and commitment with a common sense, pragmatic approach and a positive attitude?

A Strong Communicator? Who can confidently articulate and present key messages to all levels of the organisation, whilst forming strong networks and managing key stakeholders across multifunctional teams, with your ethical, unbiased approach clear for all to see?

Quick to Learn? With the ability to absorb large amounts of technical information, without getting lost in the detail, as you continually learn and share what you know, ‘left shifting’ your thinking where necessary to see problems and solutions from a new perspective?

Able to Challenge Constructively? Combining good listening skills, with an ability to ask searching questions and to probe further where necessary, maintaining a clear sense of where you are going with a willingness to learn along the way?

A Strategic Thinker? Comfortable working with detail, but with the ability to take a step back, to see the bigger picture that the detail is painting, taking an independent view whilst applying innovative thinking and ‘outside the box’ solutions where necessary?

Location: Portsmouth and Hillend

Salary: £Competitive

Benefits: Our employees receive an excellent benefits package which includes a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. We also offer a range of additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and many local and national employee discounts. Some employees may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

Flexible Working: At Maritime Services, we embrace flexible and modern working arrangements and feel this is an important part of the benefits that we have on offer. It helps us to create a diverse and inclusive workplace. This role can be undertaken either full time, part time, job share, flexible hours or we would welcome your suggestions for how we could make this role fit your circumstances.

Maritime Services

Join us and help to define the future of global maritime defence capabilities. With approximately 3,500 employees based at five UK locations and revenue of £600million, we pride ourselves on employing the best professionals around and offer significant opportunities for committed employees to learn and grow with us. Our people are encouraged to be as creative as they can be and are always looking at ways to develop and challenge the way we do things, identifying and prioritising continuous improvement activities across the business.

From our headquarters in Portsmouth, we are proud to support the Royal Navy in global operations. BAE Systems Maritime Services delivers end-to-end support to over 50 per cent of the Royal Navy's surface fleet. Our services include ship upgrades, repairs, dockyard facilities management and provision of combat systems training. We also develop and support the Royal Navy’s complex equipment, such as radar, torpedoes and small boats.

With our international programmes and core support to the Ministry of Defence, you could find yourself working on the iconic Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers, Type 45 Destroyers, Type 23 Frigates, Type 26 Global Combat Ships, Hunt Class Mine Countermeasure Vessels, Offshore Patrol Vessels, historic ships and more. Our highly skilled teams design, develop, support and maintain a wide range of complex equipment. This includes Spearfish, one of the most powerful and capable wire guided torpedoes on the market. Currently undergoing a major upgrade programme, Spearfish will soon benefit from further sophisticated advances in its homing, warheads, tactical and fuelling systems, as well an upgraded guidance link. Then there’s Artisan, the 3D radar that can identify a target the size of a tennis ball, travelling at a speed of more than 2000 miles an hour more than 25 kilometres away!

Join us and the projects you’ll be involved in will form the backbone of the Royal Navy for decades to come. You'll be part of something important; something you can be proud of.

At BAE we want to be the leading employer in defence and security for valuing diversity and inclusion. We care about difference in all forms and want to create an inclusive environment where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under-represented within our industry, including women, people from ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to be a preferred home for veterans and reservists.

For more information on our Diversity & Inclusion work, please click here.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and/or your place of birth may limit those roles that you can perform for the organisation.

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