Estimator​/Senior Estimator

Position: Estimator / Senior Estimator (Permanent)
Estimator OR Senior Estimator

Durham, County Durham

£50,000 - £70,000 + £5,500 Car Allowance + Private Healthcare + Bonus + 6% Pension (increases 1% every 3 years) + Phone/Laptop + 26 days holiday and BH (increases 1 day every 3 years)

Glenigans recently reported this business as a Top 10 Contractor in the UK. They're a £1bn turnover group. This vacancy would be working for an interesting division of the business that turnover £80m in some incredibly profitable sectors.

Their business is split into Minor and Major Works departments. The current turnover is at £70m and they work across education, fit-out, retail, industrial, leisure, hospitality and healthcare sectors across the country following their clients.

They invest heavily into their commercial departments across the group. This office has 3 Surveyors and a Senior Surveyor.

Your role would be shadowing the Senior Surveyor in the first instance. With a particular immediate focus on new-build leisure centres for David Lloyds.

Key Duties:

* Leading and managing bids (as required).

* Ensuring compliance with RMS Bid Management processes.

* Managing Estimators, Assistant Estimators and Trainee Estimators as required.

* Coach, mentor and assist with training junior staff to support development

* Deliver core services on project bids.

* Input to monthly reporting.

* Meeting all deadlines for bid return dates and as may be otherwise set by management.

* Other duties as may be required by senior management.

Projects:

* Attending and inputting to bid launch meetings.

* Reviewing bid documents and developing a bid strategy to give a competitive edge.

* Producing market competitive, nett cost estimates for bids in line with the RMS.

* Carrying out accurate quantity take-offs for the purposes of estimating - where required.

* Checking externally produced bills of quantities for accuracy.

* Pricing groundworks, drainage, sub-structure, masonry, joinery work and partitions from first principles.

* Preparing and issuing sub-contract and material enquiries.

* Liaise with the procurement department to obtain material quotations.

* Inputting into gateway documents and gateway review meetings.

* Establishing value engineering opportunities.

* Establishing risks and inputting to project risk register.

* Preparing and checking tender letters, technical notes and qualifications for issue.

* Capturing data and preparing benchmarking reports to support bids.

* Ensuring all key estimating data is effectively transferred to the delivery team at handover stage