Electrical Estimator

The Client:

Our client is a £30m contractor that specialises in Design, MEP, and Facilities Management working across the Industrial, Critical Resilience, Commercial, Healthcare, Retail & Public sectors. They work between projects from £1m through to £7m MEP value and due to having won multiple projects, they are currently looking for an ambitious Electrical Estimator to their growing team.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Reporting to the Estimating Manager, this role comprises but will not be limited to:

• Tender document review and analysis including raising of RFI’s with the client
  
  
• Supply chain correspondence and enquiries
  
  
• Take-off as required conforming to standard estimating conventions
  
  
• Vetting incoming tenders/offers from supply chain and ensuring that the most viable offer is included within submission
  
  
• Preparing tenders for internal adjudications
  
  
• Attendance of tender adjudication meetings to present costing approach, project duration, and risks to the business
  
  
• Timely submission of tenders
  
  
• Attendance in handover of projects to the operations team
  
  In order to be successful, the candidate will have to be able to demonstrate:
  
  
• A team mentality
  
  
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
  
  
• High use of initiative
  
  Skills and Behaviours:
  
  
• Commercially astute, able to identify and manage risk and to anticipate issues that may affect costs and address them proactively
  
  
• An eye for detail, and proven ability to work to tight deadlines on simultaneous projects
  
  
• Proactive and persuasive with the skills to assess better systems of work in order to advise and assist clients on systems that will save time and money
  
  Experience and Qualifications
  
  
• Preferably qualified by apprenticeship or to C & G/ONC level
  
  
• Proven experience in a similar position with an M&E contractor or in the M&E division of a main
  
  
• contractor
  
  
• Proven ability to estimate costs and timescales accurately in order to meet deadlines