Senior Estimator

Salary: £72,000 – £90,000 per year

Senior Estimator

Greater London

£Comp. + Package

New Build & Refurbishment Projects London & Home Counties

Company

A main contractor with an annual turnover in excess of £100m per annum that operates within the London and Home Counties areas working with public and private sector clients. Their project values range from £2m to £25m within the Education, Health, Commercial, Residential and Leisure and Heritage sectors and they have a growing and envious order book with a number of blue chip clients and repeat orders.

Senior Estimator

They are now actively seeking to recruit a Senior Estimator to join their team reporting into the Estimating Manager.

Duties and responsibilities include:

* Upon receipt of tender documents, review and prepare a report identifying the project details including deliverables required as part of the bid submission

* Pricing preliminaries in conjunction with contract staff as required

* Identifying and preparing a log of project risks

* Dealing with all amendments issued during the tendering period

* Carrying out site visits and preparing a report

* Packaging up enquiries for sending out to the market

* Comparisons of quotations received from the Market and entering into estimating software

* Preparing tender sum analysis/pricing documents/bills of quantities etc

* Taking of dimensions from drawings as required

* Preparing reports for presentations to Tender Settlements

* Assessing re-buy achievable on project with others

* Preparing cost plans for budgets and Stage 1 tenders

* Assist in the preparation of tender submission documents including contractors proposals for design elements

* Attending internal and external tender meetings

* Post tender financial negotiations

* Liaison with design consultants during tender process to obtain design information and ensure the most viable construction processes are adopted

* File tender documents in accordance with standard company procedures.

You will:

* Have relevant experience within a main contractor compiling tenders to £5m

* Ideally, RICS/CIOB preferred but min of HNC level of equivalent

* Experience of using estimating software preferably Estimate

* Able to estimate from first principles

* Commercial acumen

* Stable work history

This is an excellent opportunity for someone motivated looking to join a main contractor that offers fresh new challenges and career development opportunities.

Please forward a current CV in the first instance.

MSB Recruitment Ltd is an Employment Agency working within the building and civil engineering sector throughout the UK.

Estimator / Senior Estimator / Tender