Senior Estimator - Rail

Are you an experienced Senior Estimator ready to lead bids for complex civil engineering projects?

At Kilnbridge, we’re looking for a Senior Estimator to join our Pre-Construction team, shaping winning strategies for major infrastructure and engineering works. Your expertise will help us deliver accurate, competitive, and innovative proposals that set us apart.

Why Kilnbridge?

We take on some of the UK’s most challenging engineering and construction projects with integrity, teamwork, and purpose. As an employee-owned business, every team member has a personal stake in our success. That means your work directly contributes to our delivery, innovation, and reputation.

We live by our values: Responsibility, Integrity, Teamwork, and Excellence. If these resonate with you, you’ll feel right at home here.

What You’ll Be Doing

Reporting to the Preconstruction Director, you will lead bid teams and manage the full tender process from strategy to submission. You will develop bid strategies to secure profitable orders, manage bid budgets and programmes, and lead client engagement and presentations. You will coordinate technical, commercial, and legal contributions, select and liaise with supply chain partners, and drive innovation and best practice across bids.

What We’re Looking For

You will have previous proven experience in preconstruction and tendering, with a strong background in large scale, complex civil engineering projects and ideally experience with rail.

You will be detail-focused, commercially astute, and confident managing complex bids under pressure.

You should be degree-qualified or equivalent, experienced in managing bid teams and processes, and familiar with estimating software such as CANDY . Strong communication and presentation skills are essential, and membership of a relevant professional body such as RICS, CIOB, or ICE is desirable.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits

• Electric Car Salary Sacrifice scheme
  

• 25 Days Holiday and Paid Volunteering day

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Employee Profit Sharing Bonus Scheme

• A strategic role in an employee-owned business Opportunities for career progression and development

Ready to take the next step?

If you’re looking for a role where your expertise will make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now and be part of a team that’s building something exceptional.

Kilnbridge is an equal opportunities employer and a proud member of the Disability Confident Scheme. We are committed to creating a diverse workplace where everyone is treated fairly with dignity and respect. We strive to attract, develop, engage and retain a diverse mix of talent that reflects the communities and stakeholders we serve. We are also open to discussing flexible working options where suitable.

We are committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment process. Let us know at any stage if you require reasonable adjustments, and we’ll do our best to accommodate. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, or marital status.