Role: Estimator
Location: West Lancashire
Role Type: Permanent
**Salary:**£50,000 - £65,000 per annum
About our client:
MIDAS is working with a privately owned main contractor who are a contractor of choice across a number of local frameworks and private clients. Delivering projects across health, commercial, residential and industrial they have a track record of delivering exceptional work. They have a strong pipeline of work for the next 3 years and are looking for driven individuals with talent to help them deliver these schemes.
Job Description:
- Appraisal and evaluation of client tender requirements and specifications in bid preparation
- Abstract and report on contractual tender stage information
- Manage tender information efficiently
- Undertaking tender site visits
- Develop subcontract trade package enquiries
- Take off and produce tender stage bills of quantities
- Pricing of tender labour, plant and material rates build ups
- Analysing supply chain enquiries for tender
- Producing tender risk information
- Reporting for tender adjudication
- Communication and handover of estimates
- Early engagement with client teams to provide cost advice
- Providing early-stage project cost plans
- Managing client preconstruction phase programme expectations
- Delivering value engineering optioneering
- Managing and reporting tender stage cost controls
- Working within a client collaborative team environment
- Use of Causeway software, or other related Estimating software packages, to send out enquiries and analyse returns
The Successful Applicant:
We are looking for an experienced Estimator who has previous building contractor experience, (Tier 1 is not essential). You will have strong commercial awareness with value engineering and first principles. We are looking for an individual who is in confident using their own initiative and is independent, needing minimal supervision. You will have worked on projects up to the £100,000 - £10 million value.
Package on offer:
The role offers a highly competitive salary up to £65,000 plus car allowance, 24 days holiday plus bank holidays, pension and healthcare.