1. Enquiries

   • Coordinate with the bid team to create an enquiry register for subcontractors, suppliers, and specialist mechanical vendors.
   • Prepare and distribute enquiry documents, ensuring a minimum of three quotations are received per package where possible.
   • Track responses, analyse compliance with project requirements, and maintain detailed records on the enquiry register.
   • Evaluate and score subcontractor and supplier quotations following tender submission.

2. Take-Off, Estimation, Risk & Opportunity

   • Perform detailed and accurate quantity take-offs from mechanical drawings, schedules, and specifications.
   • Measure and price key mechanical services including HVAC, public health, pipework, ventilation, air conditioning, heating, cooling, and associated plant.
   • Enter material, labour, plant, equipment, and subcontractor costs into the estimating system.
   • Validate all data including material pricing, labour productivity rates, discounts, and cost multipliers.
   • Complete cost risk registers and Value Engineering (VE) schedules.
   • Ensure correct representation of mechanical and electrical interfaces including BMS controls, power supplies to mechanical plant, and commissioning requirements.
   • Identify opportunities for alternative solutions, cost savings, and programme efficiencies.

3. Tender Review

   • Participate in review meetings with the Estimating Manager and Directors.
   • Lead discussions relating to project cost risks, exclusions, assumptions, and opportunities.
   • Update estimates based on decisions from review meetings.
   • Prepare authorisation sheets and supporting documentation for governance and settlement reviews.

4. Tender Submission

   • Finalise and cross-check tender summaries and authorisation sheets.
   • Draft clarifications, assumptions, and exclusion schedules for inclusion within tender submissions.
   • Support bid writers with technical and commercial inputs as required.
   • Attend post-tender interviews and meetings.
   • Maintain tender tracker records and lessons learned documentation.
   • Archive unsuccessful or inactive tenders and ensure all documentation is retained in accordance with company procedures and potential contract requirements.

1. Continuous Development
   • Stay current with industry regulations, standards, technologies, and best practices in mechanical building services.
   • Maintain awareness of emerging technologies, sustainable building solutions, low-carbon heating systems, and energy-efficient HVAC systems.

Desirable Qualifications & Experience:

• Proven experience as a Mechanical Estimator within the building services or construction sector.
• Strong understanding of MEP systems, with a particular focus on mechanical installations and services.
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings, specifications, and schematics.
• Competency with estimating software and Microsoft Excel; experience using MCA systems is advantageous.
• Familiarity with procurement processes, tender analysis, and contract documentation.
• Excellent organisational skills with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills for engaging with suppliers, subcontractors, consultants, and internal stakeholders.
• Degree, HNC/HND, or equivalent qualification in Mechanical Engineering, Building Services Engineering, or a related discipline preferred.
• Previous site experience or practical mechanical services background is advantageous.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.