Quantity Suveyor / Estimator

Quantity Suveyor / Estimator

West Midlands

Upto GBP60,000 + benefits

Based out of their cardiff 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