Job Description
Estimator - Social Housing, Planned Maintenance, Decarbonisation / Retrofit
80K - 100K + Bonus + Benefits
London / Hybrid (Flexibility to work from Home)
We are recruiting for a leading property services contractor to find a Senior Estimator to take responsibility for pricing winning planned maintenance / decent homes and decarbonisation / retrofit tenders for housing associations, local councils and RSL's.
This is more than a measurement and pricing role. The successful candidate will combine technical estimating expertise with strong commercial judgement, bid leadership and the confidence to influence senior stakeholders.
Estimator Responsibilities:
- Maintaining an accurate cost base by regular review of market prices
- Co-ordination of tender bids
- Check and acknowledge tender documents and amendments
- Organise copy of tender documents and amendments for appropriate parties
- Record supply chain and performance data
- Analyse, compare, and Input subcontractor bids into tender
- Build up rates from first principles where necessary to support subcontractor quotes
- Using first principles build ups to construct a fully formed bid using a direct labour workforce
- Assembling relevant documents for settlement and handover meeting
Estimator Experience:
- Pricing occupied-homes programmes, including kitchens, bathrooms, roofing, windows, external fabric and M&E renewals
- Experience of fire safety, passive fire protection, building safety remediation and/or high-rise refurbishment
- Understanding of retrofit delivery, ideally including PAS 2035/PAS 2030 and funded decarbonisation programmes
- Strong knowledge of NHF Schedule of Rates, framework pricing, open-book costing, measured term and fixed-price contracts
- Advanced Excel capability and recognised estimating software such as ConQuest, Causeway, CostX or equivalent.
- HRB experience or experience of building safety related projects
Estimator Salary & Benefits:
You will be working for a modern, forward thinking business; that believes the strengths, skills and personalities of their people are the key to the group's success. This is a permanent, full time role for which you will receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package. You will be part of a stable business with ambitious growth plans over the next 5 years.
