CarmichaelUK are recruiting for a Senior Estimator for a major contractor to work in the Birmingham area
Estimating
- Input to corporate approval process and risk mitigation
- Inform Bid Manager of input required to assist in tabling competitive price
- Contribute to development of tender strategy.
- Agree methodologies and outputs for key activities with planner and, where appropriate, with Bid Manager / Design Manager
- Provide advice to Bid Manager / Design Manager on most cost effective design options
- Price alternative design solutions
- Produce competitive price using methodologies and outputs etc to suit conditions/situations relevant to the scheme.
- Labour
- Develop local rates / build up rates for self delivered items
- Prepare scheme specific labour rate calculation where required.
- Liaise with planner to reconcile labour resource levels
- Plant
- Local Plant rates for self priced items
- Liaise with Planner to reconcile plant resource levels
- Materials
- Comparison sheet for materials considering unit rate / wastage / waiting time / total
- Liaise with procurement to determine appropriate selection of suppliers to send enquiries to.
- Liaise with procurement to determine sufficiency and compliance of supplier quotations
- Liaise with procurement and agree on the selection of supplier quotations to be used in the estimate
- Sub Contractor
- Comparison sheet for s/c detailing additions / deductions from quoted rate
- Liaise with procurement to determine appropriate selection of subcontractors to send enquiries to.
- Liaise with procurement to determine sufficiency and compliance of subcontractor quotations
- Liaise with procurement and agree on the selection of subcontractor quotations to be used in the estimate
- Temp Works
- Liaise with Technical services / Temp Works Co ordinator to agree extent and nature of temporary works
- Agree cost of Temporary Works with Temporary Works Co-ordinator
- Staff
- Use weekly staff rates provided by Finance Director
- Agree staffing levels with Bid Manager / Operations lead
- Produce Staff Programme
- Preliminaries
- Liaise with planner to determine prelim durations
- Compile topsheet and backup
- Risk / Opportunity by Bid Manager
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- Contribute to compilation of Risk & Opportunity Register
- Liaise with Bid Manager and evaluate risk and opportunity
- OHP
- Include within tender book, margin on sales as agreed with MD and FD (Overhead, Profit & Insurance)
- Contribute to Tender Launch meeting and provide early pricing of major quantities and cost approximation
- Develop Activity Schedule / BoQ structure / client pricing document
- Produce or appoint take-off or measurement check
- Liaise with Commercial team and Bid manager to complete Contract Data Part 2
- Liaise with Commercial team to Load/Deload proposals as agreed at settlement
- Ensure all estimating papers are prepared and presented at the Settlement Meeting
- Ensure all pricing changes and loading proposals agreed at the Finalisation Meeting are implemented
- Ensure all requirements of Corporate governance relating to the estimate are implemented prior to submission of tender, in conjunction with bid manager.
- Ensure BoQ and/or Activity Schedule are compiled where possible to provide a positive/advantageous cash flow