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Senior Estimator at Cuttle Construction Limited
London, United Kingdom
Job Descrption
Southeast England
Location
Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire.
Salary
Up to £80,000
Type
Permanent
Status
Senior Estimator position to join a growing main contractor operating across London and the home counties
with head offices based in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire.
Position Details
A Senior Estimator with general contracting experience is required to join and lead the estimating and pre-
construction team based in Hertfordshire.
The Estimating job function is to be performed in relation to a range of projects, both frameworks, and one-off
projects:
• Commercial
• New Build & Refurbishment
• Residential
• High Street Regeneration
• Education
• Community Centres and Spaces
• Conservation and Heritage
• Externals and Redecoration
Attributes, Responsibilities and Skills
Attributes:
• Have exacting standards of written and verbal communication skills with clients, consultants, subcontractors, suppliers, and staff.
• Undertake high quality work with attention to... detail.
• The ability to self-manage time and workloads and multitask various projects sequentially, with a result
orientated ethos.
• Good analytical skills.
• Self-driven and motivated, ability to work alone or part of a team.
• A desire to grow and develop personally and within the company.
Responsibilities:
• Meet tender return deadlines.
• Conduct thorough cost analysis, ensuring accuracy and complete tenders.
• Secure profitable projects for the business’s short and long-term workload requirements.
• Allocation of estimating team labour to each tender opportunity and management throughout the
submission process.
• Ensure that all tender submissions are comprehensively reviewed and qualified correctly prior to
submission.
• Identify and assess potential risks and opportunities in tenders and propose effective mitigation
strategies wherever possible.
• Provide tender status reports to the Director(s) on bids and projects.
• Provide objective assessment of the tenders that are available to tender and provide reasoning.
• Supporting and guiding/training less experienced members of the estimating team.
• Lead weekly team meetings and prepare tender reports.
• Regular review of the company's estimating documentation and rates, ensuring these are up to date.
• Collation of various estimating data to assist future evolution of tender processes, identifying areas of
weakness and strength.
• Periodically check rates within the estimating software and set new rates as required.
• Undertaking site visits as required.
Skills and Experience
• Ability to build up estimates from first principles based on the unique scope of the project and tender
information.
• Able to take off quantities.
• Read drawings and understand rates for key elements.
• Understand buildability and implications for estimating and pricing projects.
• Able to evaluate project programme requirements and to recommend and develop methods of
construction and suitable techniques to enable cost efficient bidding.
• Demonstrate good technical knowledge of various construction methods and their impact on the
estimating, pricing, costing and construction buildability and sequencing process.
• Able to use previous project experience to work up estimates based on knowledge rather than simply
schedule of rates method.
• Able to demonstrate a detailed knowledge of general contracting.
• Good understanding of sub-contract packages
• Ideally experienced in the use of estimating software at an analytical level rather than just able to
perform data entry and extraction.
• Good working knowledge of construction methodology and outputs.
• Good understanding of all forms of construction contracts, JCT, NEC, D&B, etc.
• Previous experience of general contracting including, new build, fit out, internal and external
refurbishment, cut and carve, and all methods of construction.
This is an exciting career opportunity for a Senior Estimator to be able to use their own initiative to add value
and innovation to the estimating, tendering, programming and sequencing process of construction projects.
Qualifications/IT Skills Requirements
• Preferably a degree or HNC in Quantity Surveying or similar.
• Proficient in all Microsoft packages, excel, word, outlook etc.
• Ideally can use MS Project for tender programming.
• Ideally has experience of a estimating software package.
• Ideally has experience of take-off software.
Employing Company Overview and Profile
A well regarded general contracting business with a plan for significant growth over the next 5 years. Seeking
a Senior Estimator who wants to be at the forefront of that expansion and share in that success.
Package and Incentives
• Up to £80,000
• 25 days holidays + Bank Holidays
• Generous Performance Related Bonus
• Free Staff Parking
• Pension
• Fuel Card
Work Location
• Head Office
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