Senior Estimator
Due to continuing expansion our client, an award winning, national Civil Engineering company, is actively seeking an experienced, dedicated, and proactive Senior Estimator to be an integral part of our team providing sound knowledge of market rates and prices from 1st principles.
Reporting to the Managing Estimator, duties to include:
1. Analyse and interpret information, including early appraisal of scheme requirements in terms of construction methods, programme and management.
2. Identify risks/opportunities and incorporate them into a tender bid.
3. Call upon support from Design / Delivery teams as appropriate to plan works delivery strategy.
4. Identify key win themes and manage bid, coordinating input from multiple contributors.
5. Identify additional information required to inform and benefit the tender.
6. Challenge proposed designs and methodology to identify possible alternative construction methods, technologies and products.
7. Price civil engineering activities such as earthworks, drainage, ducting and paving from 1st principles, building up labour, plant, material cost components.
8. Prepare programme/construction sequence, to establish constructions periods. Ability to use ASTA Powerproject ideal but training can be provided.
9. Identify subcontract packages, choose suppliers from database and from researching the market, liaise with supply chain, prepare and is...