Estimator

Swanley, Kent
Focus Resourcing

Property Services – revitalising homes and communities through the regeneration of living spaces, breathing new life into neighbourhoods. From delivering large programmes of work for social housing providers, to ensuring the highest building safety standards, we provide a range of services for public sector clients.

Our client’s refurbishment team is growing and they are on the lookout for an Estimator to come and join us. We are looking for candidates that have experience of working within a main contractor on Social Housing refurbishment projects, partnerships and frameworks.

Our ideal candidate will already be managing individual tenders up to the value of 10m.

Specific Responsibilities

• Undertake and manage the coordination and final preparation of tender documentation to ensure best bid solution for the Company and ensure an adequate return on the resources employed.
• Assess contract conditions, provide advice on and quantity the risk to all relevant parties and offer solutions where required.
• Develop awareness of clients’ processes and procedures for bid evaluation.
• Effectively plan tenders to ensure timely and accurate preparation of tender documentation and pricing information resulting in a quality submission.
• Contribute to effective team collaboration within the wider business, communicating regularly with operations and commercial teams.
• Prepare tenders from architect’s drawings, specifications, bill of quantities, pre-priced schedule of rates supplied by the client, including detailing materials necessary for the contract to achieve specification.
• Identify project risks, develop and produce a risk register to assist in the decision making and cost management process to facilitate calculation of contingency amount.
• Understand labour productivity measured as output per worker and output per labour hour including productivity increasing/improvement techniques.
• Ensures tender programmes and specific methods of construction are developed with the technical and operations teams.
• Supporting the reactive assessment and selection of products and offerings made by the suppliers for incorporation into commercial bid models.
• Manage tender process to seek and establish project prices from sub-contractors including terms for works to be carried out under the contract.
• Evaluate, engage and negotiate on price documents, assess for accuracy and confirm best value on price and service quality.

Qualifications

• Quantity Surveying degree or equivalent.
• Minimum 3 years Quantity Surveyor or Estimator experience is desirable.
• Track record of winning profitable work.
• Flexible approach to working to meet tender deadlines.
• Ability to work on own initiative and well as part of a team.
• Valid driving licence

If you are interested in this role please call Lewis Murphy on (phone number removed) or email him at