Randstad Enterprise
Electrical Estimator
United Kingdom
Posted about 16 hours ago
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Role: Senior Electrical Estimator – Net Zero Teesside
Remote
Contract: until March 2027
ROLE PURPOSE
To be responsible for pricing change, capturing operational risks and ensuring accurate and effective delivery of estimating services during the execution of the project and in compliance with the contract requirements by implementing estimating strategies.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Work as a senior figure in the Estimating team, including managing the workload and allocation of estimating resource within assigned bid teams. Undertake the role of Estimator, where required
- Contribute to meeting the customer’s cost forecasting and reporting requirements within the formats agreed in the contract.
- Oversee and/or interrogate design options and ‘value’ solutions, and if appropriate, identify the attractiveness of a project based on sound estimating principles. Activities to include:
- Review drawings and specifications to prepare accurate costing sheets for materials, labour and equipment
- Ensure compliance with company procedures, including pre-construction gate process
- Review contract submission requirements, ensuring all financial information is identified and provided and accurate compliant design proposals are included
- Establish and agree key plant rates
- Agree with engineering and planning key methods, outputs and plant selection
- Detailed analysis of subcontractors’ analysis
- Manage and coordinate the preparation of preliminary and general expense pricing, including plant schedules and risk assessment
- Prepare settlement papers and carry out any adjustments required
- Responsibility for ‘sign off’ of all cost elements prior to financial submissions
- Work with suitable sub-contractors and specialists to update cost forecast and reports
- Ensure that key specialists are utilised on each bid to optimise: design, specification, programme and value
- Manage the production of cost information and submissions for senior management
- Provide considered responses to customer questions including post tender queries
- Ensure that the project commercial team have received an effective handover of bid documentation
- Manage customer contact, present proposals to the customer and contribute to customer meetings during the project
- Seek to understand, lead the development of and implement the appropriate digital toolsets to execute cost take-off and other estimating activities, such as 5D cost planning
- Ensure that cost planning and estimating are accurate and reflect the project requirements and risk profile
- Provide mentoring on bids to Estimators and the bid teams, including commercial and technical advice
- Carry out measurement and take-offs, pricing and entering the system
- Live company values
- Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm
- Support the delivery of company Sustainability activities
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ROLE PROFILE
If required by the relevant business stream:
- Monitor performance and quality of selected Cost Consultants throughout the project cycle and ensure the validation of any Cost Consultant outputs such as Bills of Quantities.
- Input into continuous improvement on bids including, presentation media, producing strategy papers for Senior Management to provide guidance on project pricing and the continual development of the cost management systems and tools within the business stream.
PERSONAL QUALITIES AND EXPERIENCE
- Detailed knowledge of electrical services including knowledge of HV/LV & instrumentation
- Experience of tendering projects in the Petro chemical, nuclear or regulated environments
- Undertaking of NAECI Labour agreements
- Experience of pricing and developing customer MTO’s
- Previous experience of managing the process of estimating projects, within the construction industry is required.
- Membership of a relevant professional body and/or relevant professional qualification is desirable, such as RICS/CIOB/RIBA/ICE/CIBSE.
- Working knowledge of best practice solutions and optimisation of innovative ideas and an understanding of the principles of Lean Construction and 5D cost planning is desirable.
- An understanding of BIM and how to read and assemble BIM models and produce appropriate reports from them is desirable.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills are required, coupled with an ability to form effective relationships with partners under time pressure. Experience of leading a team is desirable. Able to be a strong team player, as well as work on their own initiative.
- A desire to continuously pursue innovation and development, with a focus on the customer and the business is required. Proficiency in IT, numeracy and MS Office Basic & Estimating Systems is essential.
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BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
- Demonstrates passion and excitement for his/her work. Tackles problems head-on and works to resolve them without delay.
- Willing to go the extra mile to exceed expectations. Continually searches for ways to add value and take performance to the next level.
- Puts aside personal agendas to work for the benefit of customers and suppliers and other stakeholders. Proactively builds knowledge through sharing knowledge, ideas and expertise with others.
- Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers.
- Actively collects customer information and uses it to improve services and solutions. Manages the experience of customers to ensure positive relationships are established and maintained.
- Plans and organises work to safely achieve maximum efficiency and output. Delivers results consistently.
- Learns quickly. Adapts positively to changing business and customer demands. Is energised by change.
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