M&e Estimator

**Company Overview**:
CorEnergy is part of Sureserve PLC, a company which delivers heating services for social housing, EV charging, smart metering and renewable energy generation, reduction and battery storage solutions predominantly within the public sector. The Group has over 2,700 colleagues and revenue of £244m.

CorEnergy is a Group company specialising in the; design, supply, installation and financing of commercial, industrial, healthcare & education-based Lighting, Solar PV, Energy Storage & Renewable Heating solutions.

Our offices are based in Manchester, hybrid working is encouraged however attendance at the office 2 days per week is desired.

Typically, our turnkey projects range between £150k to £5m+ and include roof-mounted PV, ground-mounted solar PV, including complimentary technologies such as energy storage, DNO LV upgrades, LV electrical installations, LED lighting upgrades & commercial heat pump upgrades.

The role will work with the internal bid team to prepare and produce accurate cost estimates from receipt of Tender enquiry to Tender Settlement stage to achieve the Company’s Business Plan targets.

**Overview of role**:

- Overall responsibility and accountability for the estimating function within the business.
- Responsible for tender estimates / price build-up across the divisional work streams.
- Work closely with the business development and bid teams across the business.
- Work closely with the operational teams, to be business led across the various divisions.

**General Duties/Key Responsibilities**:

- To manage and deliver the Estimating process to ensure work is undertaken to commercial and qualitative performance standards in a timely manner, to ensure consistently accurate estimates to meet or exceed the business goals.
- To plan and organise the work to ensure at all times that it meets timely and qualitative objectives.
- To ensure that the Company policies and procedures for the business are followed.
- To provide estimating advice and commercial support to the Bid team and wider teams / business wide as appropriate.
- Review jobs to strengthen the bid process and taking advantage of any competitive edge.
- Take ownership for the timely processing of vendor / sub-contractor enquiries liaising with the business buying teams / supply chain team as appropriate.
- Evaluating / negotiating of sub-contractors quotations and producing competitive costs for packages where quotations are required.
- In conjunction with the divisional managers regularly review of supply chain performance and taking any action required regarding discrepancies.
- Ensure that the tender risks in relation to all contracts are correctly identified and accounted for, and review lost tenders to see why, how and where improvements can be made.
- Develop and implement the competent use of data spreadsheets and databases in order to maximise the efficient sourcing and collection of data to enable the production of accurate cost estimates to time.
- Measurement and preparation of accurate quantities from appropriate Supply Chain Partners in order to ensure maximum competitive edge with a view to supporting maximum tender success.
- Develop and ensure that a consistent internal tender settlement / reconciliation report and handover process is implemented, and that pricing levels, margin and risk meet the approved business strategy.
- Develop and maintain pricing masters by analysing and summarising estimating information trends.
- Ensure that CorEnergy documents and procedures are followed and implemented where necessary.
- Liaise closely with the Commercial teams and monitor the stages of projects to ensure that costs are kept in line with forecasts.
- Work closely with the Commercial teams to initialize, contribute and review a CVR process through the lifecycle of a project.
- Alongside the Commercial teams - contribute to the post project commercial review / reconciliation

**Required Skills & Experience**
- 3 years’ experience of estimating for a main contractor in the construction industry
- Able to work on own initiative
- Experience of managing and prioritising own workload and that of others, whilst working under pressure
- Experience with Schedules of Rates
- Experience with Specifications and Drawings
- Cost Value Reconciliation
- Knowledge of Computerised Estimating Packages
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Packages -Excel, Word
- Strong commercial M&E background
- Strong organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritise well when designing multiple projects concurrently
- Strong attention to detail, accurate and methodical in work
- Ability to deal with complex tasks under pressure
- Clear communicator, confident in communicating and influencing at all levels
- Ability to build relationships and a good rapport with clients to generate confidence

**Benefits**
- Salary £35,000 - £50,000 (dependant on experience).
- 26 days annual leave, plus bank holi