Are you a Quantity Surveyor with Estimating experience looking for a new role? Our client is a growing construction company. The role of Estimator / Quantity Surveyor is key to the company’s future development and success in delivering a continuous flow of new business and identifying future opportunities in both competitive tendering and design and build projects.
The Directors seek to attract a Quantity Surveyor with broad commercial skills and a strong background in Estimating whilst understanding the commercial drivers, risk profiles and key success factors for Clients procuring construction works. The Estimator / Quantity Surveyor will ensure robust, accurate and innovative advice is delivered to clients to align with their needs and business objectives.
Key Accountabilities
Work Procurement (Estimating)
- Monitor relevant planning authority websites to identify work opportunities.
- Pursue opportunities to obtain tender documents.
- Completion and submission of PQQs.
Pre-Contract (Estimating)
- 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 sub-contracted).
- Complete tender documents for submission.
- Prepare specifications and/or Contractors proposals.
- Submit tenders and follow-up.
- Post tender negotiations.
Post Contract (Quantity Surveying)
- 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.
- Degree calibre.
- RICS (not essential).
Skills
- Good working knowledge of forms of contract currently used within the Building and Civil Engineering industry.
- Good working knowledge of standard forms of measurement. SMM7 and CESMM3.
- Driving licence.
- Good IT skills - particularly Word and Excel.
- Excellent communication skills.
Personal Qualities
- High degree of personal motivation.
- 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.
Competencies
- Leadership.
- Enterprising and Commercial Approach.
- A Planned Approach.
- Taking Responsibility.
- Customer Focus.
- Building and Maintaining Relationships.
Package
- Competitive salary depending on experience.
- Company pension.
- On-site parking.
- Performance bonus.
If you want to know more and wish to apply, please contact matt.cassady@linearrecruitment.co.uk, 07749495879.