Assistant Estimator - Milton Keynes, United Kingdom - Carey Group

Carey Group

Verified Company

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you a recent Civil Engineering or Quantity Surveying Graduate, interested in joining a Pre-Construction Team?- Our Midlands work-winning team 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.

Key Responsibilities

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 highquality bids, identify and evaluate risk and opportunities, and develop valueengineered 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

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

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

Benefits:

26 days holiday per annum plus 8 Bank Holidays.
Flexicare benefits: Tastecard, Gym Membership, Cycle2Work, Holiday Trading (buy or sell up to 4 days), Health cash plan
A dedicated inhouse trained mentor a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction
Opportunity to be further developed via the Project Controls Apprenticeship

About Carey Group

Our story starts in 1969 with three brothers and a van.
John, Tom and Pat Carey moved to London from Ireland and started a groundworks contracting company in London called PJ Carey Plant Hire (Oval) Ltd.
Their aspirations at the time were reflective of the values of the Carey Group today to care about everything they did, to act with humility in all interactions, to be passionate about their work and be authentic at all times.
The Carey Group remains a familyowned construction business, operating across the UK and Ireland. Their goal at the time was to grow to around 50 operatives and provide quality, safe work so that they and their employees could provide for their families and get safe home every day. Through hard work and sticking to their values and their word, this was certainly some.
Throughout the years, we have remained committed to delivering on our promises, respecting our clients, offering innovative solutions and producing the highestquality work in safe environments. These are the core principles set by our Founders, the ones we have never wavered from and they help us to fulfil our ultimate vision to be the most trusted and socially responsible construction company, that people are proud to work with.
Our strong approach is underpinned by robust financial management, continuous investment in our people, specialist equipment and strategic assets and our longstanding culture of teamwork we want to create the very best environments for our people.
We care about our people and our partners and how we work with them, ensuring we do our best by them. Ultimately, we care about our impact on the world around us and the communities that we proudly help to shape.

Our Hiring Process

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