Details:
- Salary: £50,000 - 80,000 - Annum
- Location: Heage Derbyshire
- Date: 2 months ago
Description:
Estimator OR Senior Estimator
Heage, Derbyshire
£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're 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.
*Coach, mentor and assist with training junior staff to support development
*Deliver core services on project bids.
*Input 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.
*Liaise 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