Overview
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First Military Recruitment is proudly working in partnership with a fantastic national construction business who are looking to recruit an Estimator on a permanent basis due to growth based at their Swindon depot.
Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Ensure company governance procedures are followed at all times
2. Work in coordination with the Bid Manager to ensure competitive pricing
3. Agree methodologies and outputs for key activities with planner and, where appropriate, with Bid Manager / Design Manger
4. Provide advice to Bid Manager / Design Manager on most cost effective design options
5. Price alternative design solutions
6. Procedure competitive price using methodologies and outputs etc to suit conditions/ situations relevant to the scheme.
7. Advise Bid Manager of sufficiency of client bill of quantity / activity schedule and arrange for full quantity take off or checking as required.
8. Preparing the price estimate for tenders of budget pricing comprising the following aspects:
9. Develop local rates/ build up rates for self-delivered items
10. Ensure Working Rule Agreement (and any other specific requirements such as London Living wage) included in labour rates
11. Prepare scheme specific labour rate calculation where required.
12. Develop local rates/ build up rates for self-delivered items
13. Liaise with Planner to reconcile plant resource levels
14. Comparison sheet for materials considering unit rate (conversation factors), wastage, waiting times and part loads etc.
15. Liaise with procurement to determine appropriate selection of suppliers to send enquiries to.
16. Liaise with procurement to determine the sufficiency and compliance of supplier quotations
17. Liaise with procurement and agree on the selection of supplier quotations to be used in the estimate
18. Liase with procurement & bid team to determine appropriate selection of subcontractors to send enquires to
19. Liase with procurement to determine sufficiency and compliance of subcontractor quotations
20. Preparation of comparation sheet for subcontractors details additions/ deletions from quoted rates
21. Liaise with procurement and bid manager and agree on the selection of the subcontractor to be used in the estimate.
22. Liaise with Planner / Technical Services / Temporary Works Coordinator to agree extent and nature of temporary works.
23. Agree costs of temporary works with temporary works coordinator.
24. Agree staffing levels and procedure staff programme with Bid Manager and Operations Lead
25. Use currently weekly staff rated to price staff
26. Agree shift patterns and overtime rates with operations lead for out of normal hours working – note these need to comply with working time directive/ NR Fatigue guidance
27. Liaise with Planner to determine overall duration of preliminaries
28. Coordinate and liase with Bid Manager to ensure all aspects of clients requirements included as necessary
29. Input with Bid Manager and tender risk manager into tender risk/ opportunity register
30. Final Settlement and submission
31. Procedure top-sheet tender summary in current format and associated back up sheets
32. Present Pricing build up at pre-settlement and settlement meetings
33. Prepare adjustments sheets in coordination with Bid Manager to reflect settlement adjustments
34. Prepare final pricing documentation for inclusion with tender submission – where possible ensuring pricing maintains a positive cash flow throughout the project
35. Coordinate with Bid Manager for the production of the form of tender
36. Liase with Bid Manager and address any post tender clarifications/amendments issued by the client
37. Handover (for successful bids)
38. Prepare handover pricing document for issue to Project Manager and Commercial Manager
39. Attend handover meeting with Bid Manager
40. Review (for unsuccessful bids)
41. Coordinate with Bid Manager to review feedback on tender price (where provided) for future tenders.
Skills and Qualifications:
42. Sound know