Estimator
4 days ago
MB854: Estimator
Location: Swindon
Salary: £70,000 + £5,750 Car Allowance
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week
Additional Company Benefits: Exceptional Career Development Opportunities, Company Car/Car Allowance (Depending on job grade), Pension matched up to 8%, 25 days annual leave – plus holiday (opportunity to buy/sell leave will be implemented from January 2026), Private medical insurance, Free 24/7 EAP
Overview:
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:
- 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, with Bid Manager / Design Manger
- Provide advice to Bid Manager / Design Manager on most cost effective design options
- Price alternative design solutions
- Procedure competitive price using methodologies and outputs etc to suit conditions/ situations relevant to the scheme.
- Advise Bid Manager of 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 of budget pricing comprising 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.
- Develop local rates/ build up rates for self-delivered items
- Liaise with Planner to reconcile plant resource levels
- 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.
- 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
- Liase with procurement & bid team to determine appropriate selection of subcontractors to send enquires to
- Liase with procurement to determine sufficiency and compliance of subcontractor quotations
- Preparation of comparation sheet for subcontractors details 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 Planner / Technical Services / Temporary Works Coordinator to agree extent and nature of temporary works.
- Agree costs of temporary works with temporary works coordinator.
- Agree staffing levels and procedure staff programme with Bid Manager and Operations Lead
- Use currently weekly staff rated to price staff
- 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
- Liaise with Planner to determine overall duration of preliminaries
- Coordinate and liase with Bid Manager to ensure all aspects of clients requirements included as necessary
- Input with Bid Manager and tender risk manager into tender risk/ opportunity register
- Final Settlement and submission
- Procedure top-sheet tender summary in current format and associated back up sheets
- Present Pricing build up at pre-settlement and settlement meetings
- Prepare adjustments sheets 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
- Liase 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.
- Sound knowledge of civil engineering and construction techniques
- Knowledge of relevant procurement legislation
- Commercial awareness of different forms of contract
- Sound knowledge of the companies' governance and procedural requirements for work winning.
- Detailed knowledge of estimating software packages
Location: Swindon
Salary: £70,000 + £5,750 Car Allowance
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week
Additional Company Benefits: Exceptional Career Development Opportunities, Company Car/Car Allowance (Depending on job grade), Pension matched up to 8%, 25 days annual leave – plus holiday (opportunity to buy/sell leave will be implemented from January 2026), Private medical insurance, Free 24/7 EAP
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