Estimator

Job Purpose

Responsible for providing accurate and efficient estimates based upon contractor tender documents, drawings, models and bills of quantity

Key Responsibilities (max 10)

• Supporting client relations and enquiry management.
• Supporting daily quotation activities as well as recommending economical product solutions to accommodate various sales and enquiry requests.
• Supporting the schedule and programme demands as set forth by clients and other members of the estimating department to ensure all deadlines are met.
• Supplying well qualified and accurate quotation proposals through the effective application of custom developed and third party estimating software and company procedures.
• Supporting the extent of value engineering opportunities wherever they exist for client consideration
• Set quantities and price
• To take off quantities from drawings and models
• To obtain quotations for bought out items
• To produce the final overall pricing sheet for the Estimate

Educational background required

Preferably GCSE’s in English, Maths and Science

HNC ideally

Job related experience required

5 years estimating experience –  generally moves from the drawing office or design or production

Any other skills / knowledge required

Engineering degree or qualification would be preferable

construction software such as Revit, AutoCAD, bluebeam and Tekla experience would be advantageous but not essential

Proficient in excel and word

What are the specific Safety Responsibilities of this role? (a request from group SHE that we document this as part of this process)

Personal H&S awareness

Understanding of H&S policy and procedures.

Application of Knowledge – How the level of knowledge required for this role is applied / used within the role.  

The ability to read, interpret and understand complex and detailed architectural and structural drawings

Working on high value tenders

Requirement to know how to interface with other departments such as design and the drawing office

Requirement to know the cost implications and how long each department will take to do their part of the structure.

Need to extract as much information as possible to submit to a cost sheet – tactful

Requirement to have a comprehensive understanding of the business – what and how we do what we do.

Problem Solving and Innovation – Describe the level of problem solving that the role requires and provide examples of why.

Depends on the level of problem – responsible to identifying problems

Providing solutions  – setting expectations

Lack of clarity – ambiguous  – confirming details with other departments.

Challenging/questioning what is needed and required.

Basing on assumptions

Clear on describing pricing

Interaction – Briefly describe the nature of interaction that the role requires.

Interaction with internal and external stakeholders

Interaction with the factory, design, drawing office – dependant on the project

Work to an internal database  – however requirement to interact with complicated designs and erection schemes.

Complexity means interaction

Impact – Briefly describe the level of Impact that the role requires.

A high level of accuracy is required  – if something goes wrong as a result of them could mean impact the rest of the project.

Required to maintain relations with the client

Always has a point of escalation – Associate sales and estimating director.

Accountability

No direct reports

Project delivery

Responsibility to adhere to deadlines

Accuracy with estimator and estimating manager.