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- The Estimator / QS will ensure robust, accurate and innovative
- advice is delivered to clients to align with their needs and business objectives.
- Key Accountabilities
- Work Procurement (EST)
- Monitor relevant planning authority web sites to identify work opportunities
- Pursue opportunities to obtain tender documents
- Completion and submission of PQQs
- Maintain sub-contract database
- Maintain material suppliers database
- Assess tender documents to ensure sufficient information is available to prepare tender
- Take off quantities
- Prepare and issue sub-contract enquiries and assessment of quotations upon receipt
- Prepare and issue material supply enquiries and assessment of quotations upon receipt
- Pricing of Excavations, Concrete, Brickwork, Woodwork, Roof tiling, External Render,
- Drainage, External works and minor landscaping (all other trades are normally subcontracted)
- Complete tender documents for submission
- Prepare specifications and/or Contractors proposals
- Submit tenders and follow-up
- Post tender negotiations
- Maintain contract documentation and advise on pre-tender and post-contract matters
- Preparation and issue of contractual letters to clients and / or sub-contractors
- Post-contract liaison with clients
- Post-contract liaison with the design team
- Carry out take-offs for material procurement
- Sub-contract negotiation and letting
- Preparation and submission of interim valuations
- Site measurement
- Manage and value variations
- Agreement and certification of sub-contractors interim valuations and final accounts
- Preparation and submission of several works' final account
- Agreement of final accounts
- Commercial acumen
- Ability to work as part of a close knit
- management team and manage numerous
- activities / projects simultaneously – both
- short and long term.
- Ability to work on own initiative and with the
- minimum of supervision
- Outgoing personality essential for dealing
- directly with Clients and their design team
- Good negotiator
- Flexibility with regard to working across all
- areas of the business, and hours to meet the
- requirements of this challenging position.
- £38,000-£45,000 negotiable depending on experience
