Estimator

First Military Recruitment Ltd; Swindon; On-site; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Exceptional Career DevelopmentOpportun

Enhanced Pension Contributions

Job summary

First Military Recruitment Ltd is partnering with a national construction business to recruit an Estimator for their Swindon depot. The role involves producing tender pricing, developing local rates for self-delivered items, coordinating with planners and procurement, and ensuring governance and cost-effective design choices are applied.

The position is permanent, based in Swindon, with a salary of £70,000 plus a £5,750 car allowance.

Qualifications

• Sound knowledge of civil engineering and construction techniques.
• Knowledge of relevant procurement legislation.
• Commercial awareness of different forms of contract.
• Sound knowledge of the companys governance and procedural requirements for work winning.
• Detailed knowledge of estimating software packages.

Responsibilities

• Ensure governance procedures are followed at all times.
• Work with Bid Manager to ensure competitive pricing.
• Agree methodologies and outputs with planner and Bid/Design Manager.
• Provide advice on cost effective design options.
• Price alternative design solutions.
• Prepare price estimates for tenders including labour and materials.
• Develop local rates/build up rates for self-delivered items.
• Coordinate with procurement on supplier and subcontractor quotations.
• Prepare final pricing documentation for tender submission.
• Handover pricing documents to Project Manager and Commercial Manager.
• Attend handover meetings for successful bids.

Skills

Civil engineering

Procurement legislation

Contract forms

Governance procedures

Estimating software

Job description

MB854: Estimator

Location: Swindon
Salary: £70,000 + £5,750 Car Allowance
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week
Additional Company Benefits: Exceptional Career Development Opportunities, Enhanced Pension Contributions

Overview

First Military Recruitment is proudly working in partnership with a fantastic national construction business who are looking to recruit an Estimator on a permanent basis due to growth based at their Swindon depot.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure company governance procedures are followed at all times
• Work in coordination with the Bid Manager to ensure competitive pricing
• Agree methodologies and outputs for key activities with planner and, where appropriate, with Bid Manager / Design Manger
• Provide advice to Bid Manager / Design Manager on most cost effective design options
• Price alternative design solutions
• Procedure competitive price using methodologies and outputs etc to suit conditions/ situations relevant to the scheme.
• Advise Bid Manager of sufficiency of client bill of quantity / activity schedule and arrange for full quantity take off or checking as required.
• Preparing the price estimate for tenders of budget pricing comprising the following aspects:
• Develop local rates/ build up rates for self-delivered items
• Ensure Working Rule Agreement (and any other specific requirements such as London Living wage) included in labour rates
• Prepare scheme specific labour rate calculation where required.
• Develop local rates/ build up rates for self-delivered items
• Liaise with Planner to reconcile plant resource levels
• Comparison sheet for materials considering unit rate (conversation factors), wastage, waiting times and part loads etc.
• Liaise with procurement to determine appropriate selection of suppliers to send enquiries to.
• Liaise with procurement to determine the sufficiency and compliance of supplier quotations
• Liaise with procurement and agree on the selection of supplier quotations to be used in the estimate
• Liase with procurement & bid team to determine appropriate selection of subcontractors to send enquires to
• Liase with procurement to determine sufficiency and compliance of subcontractor quotations
• Preparation of comparation sheet for subcontractors details additions/ deletions from quoted rates
• Liaise with procurement and bid manager and agree on the selection of the subcontractor to be used in the estimate.
• Liaise with Planner / Technical Services / Temporary Works Coordinator to agree extent and nature of temporary works.
• Agree costs of temporary works with temporary works coordinator.
• Agree staffing levels and procedure staff programme with Bid Manager and Operations Lead
• Use currently weekly staff rated to price staff
• Agree shift patterns and overtime rates with operations lead for out of normal hours working - note these need to comply with working time directive/ NR Fatigue guidance
• Liaise with Planner to determine overall duration of preliminaries
• Coordinate and liase with Bid Manager to ensure all aspects of clients requirements included as necessary
• Input with Bid Manager and tender risk manager into tender risk/ opportunity register
• Final Settlement and submission
• Procedure top-sheet tender summary in current format and associated back up sheets
• Present Pricing build up at pre-settlement and settlement meetings
• Prepare adjustments sheets in coordination with Bid Manager to reflect settlement adjustments
• Prepare final pricing documentation for inclusion with tender submission where possible ensuring pricing maintains a positive cash flow throughout the project
• Coordinate with Bid Manager for the production of the form of tender
• Liase with Bid Manager and address any post tender clarifications/amendments issued by the client
• Handover (for successful bids)
• Prepare handover pricing document for issue to Project Manager and Commercial Manager
• Attend handover meeting with Bid Manager
• Review (for unsuccessful bids)
• Coordinate with Bid Manager to review feedback on tender price (where provided) for future tenders.

Skills and Qualifications

• Sound knowledge of civil engineering and construction techniques
• Knowledge of relevant procurement legislation
• Commercial awareness of different forms of contract
• Sound knowledge of the companies' governance and procedural requirements for work winning.
• Detailed knowledge of estimating software packages