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About the role
We are looking for an Estimator to join our Bristol office, who has experience of undertaking tenders valued between £1m and £10m. You will be an enthusiastic individual who is able to understand a customer’s key criteria and ascertain what areas of scope can be engineered to provide best nett bid opportunities.
You’ll be responsible for:
- Checking and confirming receipt of tender documentation
- Creating your own sets of bills using our conquest system
- Engaging with supply chain members to ensure a robust compliant tender response
- Producing and coordinating information for tender settlement including:
- Tender analysis adjudication sheet
- Preliminary breakdown
- Sub-contractors' comparison
- Identifying risks and opportunities
- Considering alternative methods of carrying out works and how Beard may develop a competitive edge
- Liaising with design team members to ascertain pertinent design information
- Attending launch, review and adjudication meetings equipped to explain the works elements, highlighting both risk and opportunity and providing confidence in the net build cost
- Providing cost and construction proposals for including in submittal documents
- Drawing together tender information, handing it over in a coherent fashion and ensure buy in from project team
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What you will bring:
- A friendly approach to work and all who you meet, upholding our values of friendly, efficient and committed
- Excellent analytical, organisational and administrative skills to produce a quality bid
- The ability to manage priorities and meet deadlines
- Able to work effectively in a team situation
- The ability to find innovative solutions to the bid process
- A positive manner when coordinating the bid
- Knowledge of the Southwest supply chain would be beneficial
Experience:
- 4 to 5 years’ experience in a similar role, across various sectors and project values of £1m+
- Detailed knowledge of traditional and various other methods of construction
- Detailed understanding of electronic estimating system (preferably ConQuest)
- Full understanding of analytical estimating and two stage tenders
- Exposure to coordinating consultants design and leading design team – beneficial, but not essential
- A high level of IT literacy especially in estimating software
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Benefits (subject to completion of introductory period of up to 6 months):
- 27 days Annual Leave plus bank holidays
- Other leave - Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave and Family Leave (after qualifying period)
- Pension - Company contributions x 1.5 employee contribution, up to a maximum of 7.5% (5% employee contribution)
- Company sick pay up to 12 weeks
- Death in Service - three times annual salary, not including car allowance
- Health care cash plan after three months
- Private Healthcare - Single cover with the option to add family members at your own cost, via payroll deduction
- Discounts and offers on our Salary Extras platform, salary sacrifice car scheme, bike and tech scheme
- Training & development - Mandatory training (dependent on role) plus help to develop to be the best you can be
- Discretionary bonus - Up to a maximum of 7.5% of salary dependent on achieving planned company and / or office (as applicable) budgeted turnover, your role and objectives, pro-rata for the first year of employment
To read more about Beard and this role, please visit our website - https://www.beardconstruction.co.uk/careers/vacancies
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