Streamline Search Ltd
Estimator
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Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Company: Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum
(Estimator) – Position Overview
Our Client, a well-established construction company based in Dunston, is looking to recruit an Estimator to join their team. As the Estimator, you will be responsible for preparing and winning profitable work. In this role, you will be responsible to the Pre-Construction Director.
Key Responsibilities
- Acting as the principal point of contact
- Establishing and communicating to the bid team the requirements of each tender.
- Liaising with internal and external designers to produce a design sufficiently advanced for pricing.
- Taking off quantities from a set of tender drawings.
- Building up rates for items in a Bill of Quantities using labour, plant, and materials.
- Assembling and issuing supply chain enquiries.
- Input into tender stage planning.
- Bringing innovation and value engineering to tenders.
- Liaising with other team members involved in tender preparation to ensure that the suite of tender documents submitted meets or exceeds the Client’s requirements.
- Presenting the tender to the Company Directors for approval to submit.
- Producing final tender documents and submitting to the client.
- Undertaking detailed tender management.
- Working within the Bid team throughout the entire bidding process to enable the Company to secure design and build projects.
- Supporting the development and implementation of the appropriate digital toolsets to execute cost take-off and other estimating activities, such as 5D cost planning.
- Attending or carrying out periodic Tender Health Checks and formal risk reviews to ensure that the identified risks are mitigated as far as possible in tender submissions.
- Ensuring that cost planning and estimating are accurate and reflect the project requirements and risk profile.
- Participating in post-tender negotiations with the Client and their professional team.
- Ensuring detailed handovers are made to the delivery team (including commercial team), as per IP 06, for successful tenders.
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(Estimator) – Position Remuneration
- Salary of £50,000 – £70,000 (dependent on experience)
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + birthday off
- Profit share scheme
- Salary sacrifice pension
- Death in service benefit
- Cycle to work scheme
- Fully funded training and development (technical, managerial, safety)
Qualifications
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(Estimator) – Position Requirements
- Relevant qualification to the construction industry (HNC, HND, Degree)
Experience/ Skills
- Analysis of tender documents/contract terms
- BIM-enabled design
- Costing/developing whole life cycle costs
- Developing sub-contract terms and conditions
- Developing a value proposition (cost, durability, low carbon, aesthetic)
- Developing tenders
- Obtaining prices and dealing with variations
- Producing product/service specifications
- Reading technical drawings
- Working to tight deadlines
Knowledge And Other Relevant Factors
- Appreciation of how buildings are constructed
- Contract law
- Current and emerging technologies
- IT tools
- Lean methodologies
- Quality assurance
- Typical associate costs
- Understanding of full range of materials and products used (Weights, volumes, dimensions etc)
Streamline Search is a technical recruitment agency based in Chichester, West Sussex operating across the United Kingdom. We are acting as a Recruitment Agency in relation to this vacancy, and in accordance with GDPR by applying to this post you are granting us consent to process your data and contact you in relation to this application.
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