Estimator / Senior Estimator in North East

Durham, County Durham

£50,000 - £70,000 + £5,500 Car Allowance + Private Healthcare + Bonus + 6% Pension (increases 1% every 3 years) + Phone/Laptop + 26 days holiday and BH (increases 1 day every 3 years)

Glenigans recently reported this business as a Top 10 Contractor in the UK. They are a £1bn turnover group. This vacancy would be working for an interesting division of the business that turnover £80m in some incredibly profitable sectors. Their business is split into Minor and Major Works departments. The current turnover is at £70m and they work across education, fit-out, retail, industrial, leisure, hospitality and healthcare sectors across the country following their clients. They invest heavily into their commercial departments across the group. This office has 3 Surveyors and a Senior Surveyor. Your role would be shadowing the Senior Surveyor in the first instance, with a particular immediate focus on new-build leisure centres for David Lloyds.

Key Duties

• Leading and managing bids (as required).
• Ensuring compliance with RMS Bid Management processes.
• Managing Estimators, Assistant Estimators and Trainee Estimators as required.
• Coaching, mentoring and assisting with training junior staff to support development.
• Delivering core services on project bids.
• Inputting to monthly reporting.
• Meeting all deadlines for bid return dates and as may be otherwise set by management.
• Other duties as may be required by senior management.

Projects

• Attending and inputting to bid launch meetings.
• Reviewing bid documents and developing a bid strategy to give a competitive edge.
• Producing market competitive, nett cost estimates for bids in line with the RMS.
• Carrying out accurate quantity take-offs for the purposes of estimating - where required.
• Checking externally produced bills of quantities for accuracy.
• Pricing groundworks, drainage, sub-structure, masonry, joinery work and partitions from first principles.
• Preparing and issuing sub-contract and material enquiries.
• Liaising with the procurement department to obtain material quotations.
• Inputting into gateway documents and gateway review meetings.
• Establishing value engineering opportunities.
• Establishing risks and inputting to project risk register.
• Preparing and checking tender letters, technical notes and qualifications for issue.
• Capturing data and preparing benchmarking reports to support bids.
• Ensuring all key estimating data is effectively transferred to the delivery team at handover stage.