Quantity Suveyor / Estimator

Quantity Suveyor / Estimator

West Midlands

Upto £60,000 + benefits

Based out of their Midlands office, our client is looking to recruit a Construction Estimator, someone with experience pricing new build projects with large groundworks, Concrete, and steel packages.

Working closely with the Operations Director, and Project Manager , taking charge from initial enquiry through to bid submittal, attend interview and then onto procurement of subcontract packages upon successful award, before handing over.

Duties will include.

* Production and co-ordination of all bid documentation.

* Analysing tender documents and preparing package list for enquiries, preparing documents, and issuing subcontractor and material enquiries

* Pricing traditional trades analytically from first principles including resource bills using materials and suppliers’ quotations.

* Production and analysis of subcontractor comparisons

* Pricing tender preliminaries

* Co-ordinating all aspects of the tender pricing process, including presentation of tenders to Operations Director at the tender adjudication meetings

* Completing detailed risk analysis schedules and liaising with the commercial manager of methods of incorporation into bids

* Prepare Cost Plans from client's information.

* Provide Cash Flow forecasts

* Attendance at mid/post tender interviews with the Client team on bids under consideration

* Production of handover documentation to Project Surveyors on successful bids

The Candidate:

The ideal candidate must have previous experience of working within civil engineering projects and possess the relevant qualification in Quantity Surveying or similar.

* BTEC in Building Studies, Building Engineering or Building Management

* HNC / HND / Degree in Quantity Surveying / Construction Management

* A minimum of 3 years experience