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Estimating Coordinator
January 10, 2022 | Comments Off on Estimating Coordinator
Job Title: Estimating Coordinator
Location: Remote (Flexible with location)
Business area: Strategic Highways
Contract / Hours: Permanent
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
We are Kier, one of the UK's leading construction and infrastructure services, working on projects such as Local and Strategic Highways. You can be who you want to be and achieve what you want to achieve with Kier Group. We're a team of teams, built on people from all backgrounds and experiences: giving you all you need to succeed and every chance to develop your potential to the full. That approach has seen us become one of the UK's leading names in Regional Build, Highways, Utilities and Infrastructure - and offers you a rewarding role in a company where 'you can'.
We are now recruiting for an Estimating Coordinator to join our Highways team to provide management and maintenance of estimating resource libraries to ensure tender proposals are accurate and provide best value.
Key Responsibilities
You will maintain management of estimating Sharepoint site to ensure records are up to date and in line with company standards management of supply chain inbox and coordination of subcontractor enquiries. This will also include facilitating lessons learnt meetings and maintain a record of these learnings, establish and manage cost benchmarking process within company to review cost on a macro and micro scale. Leading on, you will maintain the register of subcontractor prices for benchmarking purposes, which will require you to benchmark outputs, overheads and site prelims to establish a company baseline for core services. A fundamental part of the role will be to gather market intelligence on potential client and analyse data to inform and/or challenge solution development. It will be key for you to maintain the lessons learnt register and ensure items are actioned in future bids. You are expected to be a point of contact for sub-contractor enquiries and liaison.
What do we need from you?
- Confident in estimating functions in administration of tenders
- Stakeholder management experience
- Strong administrative and analytical background
- Good attention to detail
- Comprehensively able to rate benchmarking across existing contracts to ensure best value is achieved in tenders
- A matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, 26 days' annual leave + bank holidays
- Two employee Share Scheme options (Sharesave and Share Incentive Plan).
Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. Take a look to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion. If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these by emailing .
Closing Date: 7th February 2022
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
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