Estimator - Highways - Lincolnshire, United Kingdom - Pinnacle Recruitment
Description
Salary:
£
Location:
East Midlands/Lincolnshire
Region:
East Midlands
We are looking for an experienced Estimator who has previously been working on
Highways related projects to join a UK leading contractor operating across the East Midlands and Lincolnshire.
The Estimator will be part of the preconstruction team and shall be responsible for pricing and developing bids for National Highways and Local Authority highways maintenance contracts (£20m+ pa).
Working closely with the Managing Estimator and the bid team you will assist the business to secure profitable work by producing robust tender estimates.
You will lead the development of client tender information into a comprehensive price for tender submission.As the leading Estimator your duties & responsibilities will be:
- Responsible for winning work by producing tenders and leading on all financial elements of tender submissions.
- Prepare accurate prices for materials, labour and equipment based on client drawings and specifications.
- Creating, analysing, and maintaining correct and accurate quantities and thorough takeoffs from designs/data sets
- Compile subcontractor and material quotation packages and subsequent adjudications
- Price preliminaries and contract overheads/fees
- Understand current market prices and benchmark our solutions to increase success rates.
- Price tenders using the Candy Estimating software package
- Prepare tender review and present at tender sign off meetings as required
- Assist the bid team in any post tender negotiations
- Completion of tender handover documents
- Previous relevant estimating experience
- Degree qualified in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or similar
- Particular attention to detail with good project management skills
- Sound mathematical and numeracy skills, with the ability to solve problems analytically
- Ability to achieve tight deadlines under pressure
- Ability to communicate at all levels, both verbally and written
- Availability for travel
- Experience using estimating software and IT skills as appropriate
- Understanding of contract conditions (including NEC), specifications and drawings
- 28 days' annual leave plus 8 days' bank holiday
- Pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Private health care
- Company car/ car allowance and fuel card
More jobs from Pinnacle Recruitment
-
Site Manager
Handsworth, West Midlands, United Kingdom - 1 week ago
-
Trainee Recruitment Consultants
Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom - 2 days ago
-
Freelance Site Manager
Swindon, United Kingdom - 2 weeks ago
-
Subcontractor Supervisor
London, United Kingdom - 1 week ago
-
Senior Site Manager
Handsworth, United Kingdom - 45 minutes ago
-
Site Manager
Co. West Midlands, United Kingdom - 1 week ago