Rail Estimator (PMCM Rail)

WSP
Manchester, London
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Product ManagementSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Teamwork","Curiosity","Client-facing"]

Join WSP's PMCM Rail team as a Rail Estimator, delivering robust, evidence-based cost estimates across UK rail projects. You’ll work with estimating, cost planning, procurement support, and cost assurance in a collaborative environment involving Network Rail, train operators, and major contractors, contributing to project feasibility, design, and delivery while developing in a specialist estimating group.

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Rail Estimator (PMCM Rail)

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Job Summary

Join WSP's PMCM Rail team as a Rail Estimator, delivering robust, evidence-based cost estimates across UK rail projects. You’ll work with estimating, cost planning, procurement support, and cost assurance in a collaborative environment involving Network Rail, train operators, and major contractors, contributing to project feasibility, design, and delivery while developing in a specialist estimating group.
Location: Manchester, London
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Product Management

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develop robust, evidence-based rail cost estimates as part of the estimating team.
  • •Contribute to estimates on projects covering track, civils, stations, electrification, signalling, telecoms, depots, and wider rail systems.
  • •Broaden experience across rail-specific cost planning, procurement support and cost assurance.
  • •Collaborate with Network Rail, train operators, major contractors, delivery partners, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
  • •Support successful delivery of nationally and regionally significant rail programs across client offices, sites and offices.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Remote WorkGym MembershipLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •Rail Estimating experience and familiarity with measurement methods such as Rail Method of Measurement (RMM1), Method of Measurement for Highway Works (MMHW) and the Civil Engineering Standard Method of Measurement (CESMM4).
  • •Demonstrable experience in bottom‑up estimating from first principles.
  • •Knowledge and experience of Estimating software (e.g., CostX, CANDY).
  • •Experience working within a Rail Systems/Engineering, Commercial Management, or Civil Engineering environment (consultant, contractor, or client organisation).
  • •Working knowledge of NEC Contracts or other standard/bespoke contract forms.
Experience:RailInfrastructureRail systemsRail estimating
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationTeamworkCuriosityClient-facing
Languages:English
Tech Stack:CostXCANDYRMM1MMHWCESMM4NEC Contracts

Company Brief

WSP
Global professional services firm providing engineering, consulting, and technical services across infrastructure, environment, buildings, transportation, and energy sectors for public- and private-sector clients worldwide.
Industry: Professional Services
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Montreal, Canada
Founded: 1959
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