Assistant Estimator - Milton Keynes, United Kingdom - Carey Group

Carey Group

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Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Milton Keynes

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Are you a recent Civil Engineering or Quantity Surveying Graduate, interested in joining a Pre-Construction Team?:

Our Midlands work-winning team, (based out of our Regional Milton Keynes office) tender projects from £1m-£35m for a variety of clients, sectors, and regions.

Careys are well established within our core markets, typically acting as specialist sub-contractor on sub and super-structure, hard & soft landscaping, and enabling & infrastructure works.

Your practical and/or technical expertise will allow you to embed yourself within our experienced and collaborative work-winning team and further progress your estimating career.

To support you in this development role, you will be enrolled onto the Project Controls Level 3 course/apprenticeship at London Metropolitan College, where you will grow your network amongst other aspiring Project Control professionals, and enable you to explore opportunities to gain chartered membership to a Professional body.

Reporting to the Managing Estimator, you will join a growing regional team. Across the wider Estimating function, Careys have 25+ Estimators at various levels.

Whilst your predominant focus will be on tendering projects within the Midlands region (M1 corridor from Milton Keynes to Birmingham/West Midlands and Oxford to Birmingham M40 corridor), you may occasionally support projects within the London/South East, North of England and Scotland regions.

What to Expect:

As a Graduate Estimator, you will be working closely with the Estimator, Planner, and Pre-Construction Manager as we tender for a range of prestigious civil engineering projects.

You will help to produce high-quality bids, identify and evaluate risk and opportunities, and develop value-engineered solutions for clients within a department that secures continued work and growth for the company.

Review and understand the scope of works, drawings, specifications, and programme
Measuring & 'Taking-Off' quantities from drawings
Identify potential value engineering solutions
Prepare rates for each item within the BOQ from first principles
Contribute to tender reports in preparation for tender adjudication
Produce risk and opportunity registers
Attend pre & post contract reviews and client meetings
Take part in and encourage knowledge sharing and upskilling across the team

About You:

Degree in Civil Engineering/ or Quantity Surveying
Strong Communication skills, factual and professional
Collaborative able to work well in a team particularly when approaching deadlines
Precise, deliberate, and able to work well under pressure
Comfortable in clientfacing meetings, able to convey 'big picture theories and ideas with ease