Huge 5* House Builder looking for a driven Experinced Estimator.
Reporting to the commercial manager and working closely with the Land team assisting with land viabilities for land opportunities.
Duties include:
1. Attend pre start, design team and any other relevant meeting as required.
2. Prepare estimates of all construction costs, including all site abnormals, professional fees, site management costs and preliminaries.
3. Identify specific scheme abnormals, prepare estimates of all prime costs, co-ordinate input of all development costs into appraisals/viabilities, input into "value engineering" exercise at appraisal/pre-start stage, input and maintain master appraisal costs
4. Liaise with all Departments as necessary to achieve a viable final cost position
5. Calculate all prime costs on developments within the business, reporting any movements in costs since the preparation of the land purchases exercise.
6. Prime costs to include but not restricted to house pricing, labour costs, site work operations and remediation work, up to commencement on site
7. Update and maintain costs on items such as retaining walls solutions
8. Provide a detailed 'pre-start' appraisal following grant of planning consent and track movements through to site commencement
9. Update appraisals on land purchased or controlled on which construction has not commenced, to ensure margins reflect current layout and house type mix and ma...