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Construction Estimator Required
June 13, 2018 | Comments Off on Construction Estimator Required
With over 25 years of experience, Smiths Construction is now firmly established as one of the regions most experienced and trustworthy firms. With customers across the South West, Midlands and South Wales we have built a reputation for a professional approach to all aspects of our business.
A major part of the success of Smiths Construction can be attributed to the innovative, proactive and hands on approach of our highly experienced team. Their dedication to customer service has contributed to the development of long term partnerships with key customers.
We are looking to recruit an Estimator covering the South West of our business.
The successful candidate will;
• Have responsibility for the preparation and submission of tenders, under a variety of forms of procurement, typically between £50,000 and £5m in value
• Be working as part of a team with the objective of securing profitable future workload for the business;
• Utilise construction knowledge and commercial experience in conjunction with other members of the bid team to ensure competitive bids;
• Be responsible for Risk and Value management;
• Be responsible for Preparation of budgets and cost plans;
• Be responsible for Procurement types – traditional, plan and specification, 2 Stage, design and build;
• Be responsible for Bid Management on applicable tenders.
Responsibilities
• Ownership and responsible for all commercial aspects of the tender “estimate”;
• Responsibility for supply chain package strategy, management, checking and financial evaluation;
• Arrange and agree PQS appointments for BQ production or check / produce own quants;
• Attend tender launch, mid tender, supply chain, design team, tender settlement meetings. and post tender interviews where appropriate;
• Input into the bid programme;
• Attend site visits;
• Collate benchmarking information/GIFA rates where applicable;
• Send out enquiries for all trades and materials to named supply chain members;
• Build up on own rates analytically based upon “labour, plant and materials”;
• Carry out financial evaluation of Value Engineering and “optioneering” ideas;
• Produce and own the Bid Opportunity and Risk Register. Ensure contribution from other bid team members;
• Budget/cost planning;
• Pricing of preliminaries in conjunction with operational and planning staff.
• Manage/contribute to the Tender Query process;
• Production of Profit Enhancement Plan;
• Ownership and input into financial element of the tender submission;
• Prepare site team handover pack;
• Not just “Pricing the Job”; look for the commercial edge over the competition – identify and investigate all alternatives/angles/opportunities;