Senior Estimator

Senior Estimator (Civils)

My client, a Tier 1, Main Contractor reqiuire a permanent Senior Estimator with a strong Civil Infrastructure background and be based from their Swindon OR London office.

Purpose of the Role

Preparation of detailed and accurate pricing for tenders and Supporting Clients with pricing support for Early contractor involvement projects.

Role Accountabilities

Ensure company governance procedures are followed at all times
Work in coordination with the Bid Manager to ensure competitive pricing.
Agree methodologies and outputs for key activities with Planner and, where appropriate the Bid Manager and Design Manager.
Provide advice to Bid Manager/ Design manager on most competitive design options.
Price alternative design solutions
Produce competitive price using methodologies and outputs etc. to suit conditions/ situations relevant to the scheme.
Advise Bid Manager on sufficiency of Client bill of quantity/ activity schedule and arrange for full quantity take off or checking as required.
Preparing the price estimate for tenders or budget pricing comprising the following aspects:

Labour including the following aspects:
Develop local rates/ build up rates for self-delivered items
Ensure Working Rule Agreement (and any other specific requirements such as London Living Wage) included in labour rates
​​​​​Prepare scheme specific labour rate calculation where required.

Plant including the following aspects:
Develop local rates/ build up rates for self-delivered items
Liaise with Planner to reconcile plant resource levels

Materials including the following aspects:
Comparison sheet for materials considering unit rate (conversation factors), wastage, waiting times and part loads etc.
Liaise with procurement to determine appropriate selection of suppliers to send enquiries to.

Subcontract packages including the following aspects:
Liaise with procurement & bid team to determine appropriate selection of subcontractors to send enquiries to.
Liaise with procurement to determine the sufficiency and compliance of subcontractor quotations
Preparation of comparison sheet for subcontractors detailing additions/ deletions from quoted rates
Liaise with procurement and bid manager and agree on the selection of the
subcontractor to be used in the estimate.
Liaise with procurement to determine the sufficiency and compliance of supplier quotations
Liaise with procurement and agree on the selection of supplier quotations to be used in the estimate.

Temporary works
Liaise with Planner/ Technical Services and Temporary Works Coordinator to agree extent and nature of temporary works
Agree costs of temporary works with temporary works coordinator.

Staff
Agree staffing levels and produce staff programme with Bid Manager and Operations lead.
Use currently weekly staff rates to price staff
Agree staff 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 etc.

Preliminaries
Liaise with Planner to determine overall duration of preliminaries
Coordinate and liaise with Bid Manager to ensure all aspects of Clients requirements included as necessary (CCS/ CEEQUAL etc).

Risk
Input with Bid Manager and tender risk manager into tender risk/ opportunity register

Final settlement and submission
Produce top –sheet tender summary in current format and associated back up sheets
Present pricing build up at pre-settlement and settlement meetings
Prepare adjustments sheet in coordination with Bid Manager to reflect settlement adjustments
Prepare final pricing documentation for inclusion with tender submission – where possible ensuring pricing maintains a positive cash flow throughout the project.
Coordinate with Bid Manager for the production of the Form of tender/ Contract Data Part 2 as required.
Liaise with Bid Manager and address any post tender clarifications/amendments issued by the Client.

Handover (for successful bids)
Prepare handover pricing document for issue to Project Manager and Commercial Manager
Attend Handover meeting with Bid Manager

Review (for unsuccessful bids)
Coordinate with Bid Manager to review feedback on tender price (where provided) for future tenders