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Electrical Estimator

Dartford
9 months ago
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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

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