Main duties and requirements:

• Positively contribute to the attainment of the Businesses secured workload targets & success rates.
• Effectively contribute to the preparation of best value tender submissions.
• Lead our estimating strategy to ensure the bids are well organised, produced in a timely manner and provide sufficient information for the management team to make a valued decision.
• Mitigate risk during the bid phase through effective risk identification and mitigation strategies (Risk, Opportunity & Assumption register)
• Provide high level cost advice on emerging opportunities, maintaining database of current market costs.
• Ensure timely and adequate handover to the Operations team.
• Advise business on market changes to sub-contractor / material prices in conjunction with the commercial team.
• Continually seek to improve estimating controls, process and performance.
• Provide best net cost (supported by market pricing) estimates in a timely and organised manner.
• Meet tender return deadlines.
• On receipt of a tender consult with the pre-construction team to assess suitability of the tender and agree whether to provide a bid or decline.
• Maintain Estimating resource schedules.
• Agree the bid strategy with the bid team including potential value engineering, the structure of the tender return and important dates for completion of individual tasks.
• Attend weekly bid team meetings and provide support to the team as required.
• Prepare bills of quantities.
• Agree the tender list with the bid team and send out enquiries with sufficient time for the sub-contractors to provide quotations.
• Fully understand site conditions and constraints.
• Engage with the sub-contractors through the tender period to ascertain any potential opportunities within the bid along with chasing up tenders to make sure they are received.