Estimator / Senior Estimator

Estimator OR Senior Estimator

Heage, Derbyshire

50,000 - 70,000 + 5,500 Car Allowance + Private Healthcare + Bonus + 6% Pension (increases 1% every 3 years) + Phone/Laptop + 26 days holiday and BH (increases 1 day every 3 years)

Glenigans recently reported this business as a Top 10 Contractor in the UK. They're a 1bn turnover group. This vacancy would be working for an interesting division of the business that turnover 80m in some incredibly profitable sectors.

Their business is split into Minor and Major Works departments. The current turnover is at 70m and they work across education, fit-out, retail, industrial, leisure, hospitality and healthcare sectors across the country following their clients.

They invest heavily into their commercial departments across the group. This office has 3 Surveyors and a Senior Surveyor. Your role would be shadowing the Senior Surveyor in the first instance. With a particular immediate focus on new-build leisure centres for David Lloyds.

Key Duties:

Leading and managing bids (as required).

Ensuring compliance with RMS Bid Management processes.

Managing Estimators, Assistant Estimators and Trainee Estimators as required.

Coach, mentor and assist with training junior staff to support development

Deliver core services on project bids.

Input to monthly reporting.

Meeting all deadlines for bid return dates and as may be otherwise set by management.

Other duties as may be required by senior management.

Projects:

Attending and inputting to bid launch meetings.

Reviewing bid documents and developing a bid strategy to give a competitive edge.

Producing market competitive, nett cost estimates for bids in line with the RMS.

Carrying out accurate quantity take-offs for the purposes of estimating - where required.

Checking externally produced bills of quantities for accuracy.

Pricing groundworks, drainage, sub-structure, masonry, joinery work and partitions from first principles.

Preparing and issuing sub-contract and material enquiries.

Liaise with the procurement department to obtain material quotations.

Inputting into gateway documents and gateway review meetings.

Establishing value engineering opportunities.

Establishing risks and inputting to project risk register.

Preparing and checking tender letters, technical notes and qualifications for issue.

Capturing data and preparing benchmarking reports to support bids.

Ensuring all key estimating data is effectively transferred to the delivery team at handover stage.