Senior Estimator position to join a growing main contractor operating across London and the home counties with head offices based in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire.
Position Details
A Senior Estimator with general contracting experience is required to join and lead the estimating and pre-construction team based in Hertfordshire.
The Estimating job function is to be performed in relation toa range of projects, both frameworks, and one-off projects:
- Commercial
- New Build & Refurbishment
- Residential
- High Street Regeneration
- Education
- Community Centres and Spaces
- Conservation and Heritage
- Externals and Redecoration
Attributes, Responsibilities and Skills
Attributes:
- Have exacting standards of written and verbal communication skills with clients, consultants, subcontractors, suppliers, and staff.
- Undertake high quality work with attention to detail.
- The ability to self-manage time and workloads and multitask various projects sequentially, with a result orientated ethos.
- Good analytical skills.
- Self-driven and motivated, ability to work alone or part of a team.
- A desire to grow and develop personally and within the company.
Responsibilities:
- Meet tender return deadlines.
- Conduct thorough cost analysis, ensuring accuracy and complete tenders.
- Secure profitable projects for the businesss short and long-term workload requirements.
- Allocation of estimating team labour to each tender opportunity and management throughout the submission process.
- Ensure that all tender submissions are comprehensively reviewed and qualified correctly prior to submission.
- Identify and assess potential risks and opportunities in tenders and propose effective mitigation strategies wherever possible.
- Provide tender status reports to the Director(s) on bids and projects.
- Provide objective assessment of the tenders that are available to tender and provide reasoning.
- Supporting and guiding/training less experienced members of the estimating team.
- Lead weekly team meetings and prepare tender reports.
- Regular review of the company's estimating documentation and rates, ensuring these are up to date.
- Collation of various estimating data to assist future evolution of tender processes, identifying areas of weakness and strength.
- Periodically check rates within the estimating software and set new rates as required.
- Undertaking site visits as required.
Skills and Experience
- Ability to build up estimates from first principles based on the unique scope of the project and tender information.
- Able to take off quantities.
- Read drawings and understand rates for key elements.
- Understand buildability and implications for estimating and pricing projects.
- Able to evaluate project programme requirements and to recommend and develop methods of construction and suitable techniques to enable cost efficient bidding.
- Demonstrate good technical knowledge of various construction methods and their impact on the estimating, pricing, costing and construction buildability and sequencing process.
- Able to use previous project experience to work up estimates based on knowledge rather than simply schedule of rates method.
- Able to demonstrate a detailed knowledge of general contracting.
- Good understanding of sub-contract packages
- Ideally experienced in the use of estimating software at an analytical level rather than just able to perform data entry and extraction.
- Good working knowledge of construction methodology and outputs.
- Good understanding of all forms of construction contracts, JCT, NEC, D&B, etc.
- Previous experience of general contracting including, new build, fit out, internal and external refurbishment, cut and carve, and all methods of construction.
This is an exciting career opportunity for a Senior Estimator to be able to use their own initiative to add value and innovation to the estimating, tendering, programming and sequencing process of construction projects.
Qualifications/IT Skills Requirements
- Preferably a degree or HNC in Quantity Surveying or similar.
- Proficient in all Microsoft packages, excel, word, outlook etc.
- Ideally can use MS Project for tender programming.
- Ideally has experience of a estimating software package.
- Ideally has experience of take-off software.
Employing Company Overview and Profile
A well regarded general contracting business with a plan for significant growth over the next 5 years.Seeking a Senior Estimator who wants to be at the forefront of that expansion and share in that success.
Package and Incentives
- Up to £80,000
- 25 days holidays + Bank Holidays
- Generous Performance Related Bonus
- Staff Parking
- Pension
- Fuel Card
- Office Free Parking
Work Location
- Head Office