Senior Estimator
8 days ago
Workington
MB929: Senior EstimatorLocation: WorkingtonSalary: £70,000 + £5,750 Car AllowanceWorking Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per weekAdditional Company Benefits: Exceptional Career Development Opportunities, Company Car/Car Allowance (Depending on job grade), Pension matched up to 8%, 25 days annual leave – plus holiday (opportunity to buy/sell leave will be implemented from January 2026), Private medical insurance, Free 24/7 EAPOverview: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: \n\n • Ensure company governance procedures are followed at all times\n, • Work in coordination with the Bid Manager to ensure competitive pricing\n, • Agree methodologies and outputs for key activities with planner and, where appropriate, with Bid Manager / Design Manger\n, • Provide advice to Bid Manager / Design Manager on most cost effective design options\n, • Price alternative design solutions\n, • Procedure competitive price using methodologies and outputs etc to suit conditions/ situations relevant to the scheme.\n, • Advise Bid Manager of sufficiency of client bill of quantity / activity schedule and arrange for full quantity take off or checking as required.\n, • Preparing the price estimate for tenders of budget pricing comprising the following aspects:\n, • Develop local rates/ build up rates for self-delivered items\n, • Ensure Working Rule Agreement (and any other specific requirements such as London Living wage) included in labour rates\n, • Prepare scheme specific labour rate calculation where required.\n, • Develop local rates/ build up rates for self-delivered items\n, • Liaise with Planner to reconcile plant resource levels\n, • Comparison sheet for materials considering unit rate (conversation factors), wastage, waiting times and part loads etc.\n, • Liaise with procurement to determine appropriate selection of suppliers to send enquiries to.\n, • Liaise with procurement to determine the sufficiency and compliance of supplier quotations\n, • Liaise with procurement and agree on the selection of supplier quotations to be used in the estimate\n, • Liase with procurement & bid team to determine appropriate selection of subcontractors to send enquires to\n, • Liase with procurement to determine sufficiency and compliance of subcontractor quotations\n, • Preparation of comparation sheet for subcontractors details additions/ deletions from quoted rates\n, • Liaise with procurement and bid manager and agree on the selection of the subcontractor to be used in the estimate.\n, • Liaise with Planner / Technical Services / Temporary Works Coordinator to agree extent and nature of temporary works.\n, • Agree costs of temporary works with temporary works coordinator.\n, • Agree staffing levels and procedure staff programme with Bid Manager and Operations Lead\n, • Use currently weekly staff rated to price staff\n, • 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\n, • Liaise with Planner to determine overall duration of preliminaries\n, • Coordinate and liase with Bid Manager to ensure all aspects of clients requirements included as necessary\n, • Input with Bid Manager and tender risk manager into tender risk/ opportunity register\n, • Final Settlement and submission\n, • Procedure top-sheet tender summary in current format and associated back up sheets\n, • Present Pricing build up at pre-settlement and settlement meetings\n, • Prepare adjustments sheets in coordination with Bid Manager to reflect settlement adjustments\n, • Prepare final pricing documentation for inclusion with tender submission – where possible ensuring pricing maintains a positive cash flow throughout the project\n, • Coordinate with Bid Manager for the production of the form of tender\n, • Liase with Bid Manager and address any post tender clarifications/amendments issued by the client\n, • Handover (for successful bids)\n, • Prepare handover pricing document for issue to Project Manager and Commercial Manager\n, • Attend handover meeting with Bid Manager\n, • Review (for unsuccessful bids)\n, • Coordinate with Bid Manager to review feedback on tender price (where provided) for future tenders.\n\n Skills and Qualifications: \n\n • Sound knowledge of civil engineering and construction techniques\n, • Knowledge of relevant procurement legislation\n, • Commercial awareness of different forms of contract\n, • Sound knowledge of the companies' governance and procedural requirements for work winning.\n, • Detailed knowledge of estimating software packages\n\n MB929: Senior EstimatorLocation: WorkingtonSalary: £70,000 + £5,750 Car AllowanceWorking Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per weekAdditional Company Benefits: Exceptional Career Development Opportunities, Company Car/Car Allowance (Depending on job grade), Pension matched up to 8%, 25 days annual leave – plus holiday (opportunity to buy/sell leave will be implemented from January 2026), Private medical insurance, Free 24/7 EAP