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- Work from home or anyone of the Southern based office's
- Civil Engineering tenders £750k-£20m
- Sensible work loads that are carefully managed
- Part of a brilliant Pre-Con team, working alongside bid writers, Bid managers and admin support and fellow Estimators
- This journey hasn't finished: The Company doubled in size in 10 years, and have carefully formulated plans for further growth all backed by strong financial performances.
- Independent: This company is owned & operated by private, down to earth individuals. All play an active part in day to day operations.
Estimator required for a Principle Contractor. This opportunity is with a dynamic contractor who has been operating for over 5 decades and financially very strong. Jobs are valued up to £20m.
- The job exists to provide detailed design and construction pricing, scoping and programming for the civils and building elements of all of pre-construction services contracts and competitive tenders.
- To prepare and provide accurate and competitive cost estimates.
- The role proactively contributes to the organisation through its critical input to securing sales that will fulfil our sales turnover, gross margin and risk objectives.
- * The estimating role is predominantly civils based. The requirements for civils estimating are: earthworks; piling; foundations; below ground drainage systems; structures, surfacing, retaining walls, and hard and soft landscaping.
MAIN DUTIES
A general summary of the major activities and responsibilities
- To review tender documentation and Employer‘s Requirements to ensure a full understanding of the tender opportunity and potential risks to the business.
- To proactively contribute to the tender launch and bid strategy.
- To proactively contribute to the tender stage civils design development process.
- To prepare and issue detailed sub-contract enquiries for civils and building elements.
- To prepare, populate and price tender stage civils and building bills of quantities for use in compiling the cost estimates.
- To provide detailed sub-contract package price analysis and normalisation, to advice on the most competitive sub-contractor for each package to improve our commercial advantage and facilitate open book client interrogation.
- To consider value engineered opportunities and seek the best value and innovative alternative solutions, sub-contractors, materials, methods, etc to gain competitive advantages for their offer.
- To produce detailed, accurate and competitive design and construction programmes for the civils and building elements of their bids.
- To produce detailed and accurate activity schedules for inclusion in their proposals.
- To promote active engagement with current and potential supply chain members to improve relationships (and hence bid input) at the pre-construction stage.
- To prepare accurate CE’s, for review by the Bid Manager.
Requirements:
Put simply - if you have a stable work history (5 years plus) in civil engineering estimating, then there is every chance this could be right for you.
On offer is an opportunity to join a great pre-con team within a thriving business, enjoy healthy rewards and recognition and work within a healthy and positive working environment.
For further details, please don't hesitate to contact Tristan Prior
