Our client is a demolition & remediation contractor, currently recruiting for an Estimator to join their busy and friendly team in Birmingham. They are an ever expanding and successful company, with a reputation for quality, innovation and health and safety.

They have their own workforce and plant who deliver the vast majority of works on site.

The Estimating team is providing management support and preparing costs, programmes and methodology for all of our tenders and budgets.

This position may suit either an established Estimator/Senior Estimator within the construction industry or a driven Assistant Estimator, looking to develop their career.

Ideal requirements are as follows:

Key Skills & Behaviours

·       Good written and verbal communication skills.

·       A good problem solver that shows initiative in tacking issues.

·       PC Computer skills with proficiency using MS Word, Excel and Outlook.

·       Scheduling knowledge.

·       Strong customer facing skills.

·       Ability to work within a team to deliver robust bids.

·       Be accurate & have good attention to detail.

·       Show enthusiasm & be decisive whilst working individually and as part of a team.

·       Manage workloads and work to deadlines.

·       Have good record keeping for passing information on to live teams.

·       Experienced in the construction industry.

Duties & Responsibilities

·       Assess the Information to Tender, provided by Clients team.

·       Works with Bid Manager to draw up the deliverables for the tender.

·       Carry out site visits to fully assess the work to be priced.

·       Work with the CAD technicians to draw up methods of work and programmes.

·       Identify specialist sub-contract packages to be priced and obtain competitive quotes for each package.

·       Analyse Sub-contract quotes to ensure all gaps are plugged and risk/opportunity is managed.

·       Carry out measurement of the works and producing basic Bills of Quantities.

·       Pricing work from first principles (labour plant & materials) based upon outputs or using composite rates for both tenders and budgets.

·       Pricing site preliminaries.

·       Develop basic programmes with support from operation teams.

·       Attend adjudication meeting and adjusting bids to take on management comments.

·       Manage and respond to post tender queries from the Client

·       Record all relevant information and hand over secured tenders to live team

Salary is negotiable and promises to be competitive.

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