ICErecruit ID# 42941

Job Ref: 13765/GTC

Job Sector: Civil

Specialism: Contracting

Salary: £Competitive

Location: City of London

Job Type: Permanent

Added: 25/07/2008

Our client delivers civil engineering and rail infrastructure projects throughout the UK, and provides a full building and civil engineering service internationally. Their Rail division is the Group's specialist construction and management services arm for the UK railway sector, providing multi-disciplinary project management and construction services for infrastructure buildings within the rail industry. Areas of particular expertise include stations, depots, bridgeworks, structural renewals and maintenance.
Due to expansion and the drive to create a more successful rail division a vacancy has arisen for an Estimator to be based in their Central London office. The role will be to prepare an accurate and competitive cost estimate for a wide variety of Civil Engineering and Industrial Building Schemes. Inform and advise the Principle Managers involved as to the risks and opportunities inherent in the proposal.

Responsibilities

• Check and maintain a controlled copy of the Client's Enquiry documents.
• Review and report on the Client's Enquiry to enable a decision to bid.
• Prepare subcontract and materials enquiries and review the subsequent quotations.
• Build up an accurate cost estimate for the permanent works in an elemental and analytical format.
• Prepare an accurate cost estimate for the indirect resources required to carry out the works in accordance with the agreed programme and engineering requirements.
• Check the labour and plant resources accumulated in the cost estimate balance with those derived from the planned programme.
• Prepare and present the commercial aspects of the tender to the directors for adjudication and approval.
• Prepare the commercial tender for submission to the Client.
• On acceptance of the tender by a Client check the proposed Contract reflects the enquiry documents and subsequent offer.
• Prepare and present the commercial handover documents to the Operations Team.

The Individual

• A good working knowledge of the outputs normally achieved by operatives in a variety of manual trades and those operating various types of equipment.
• An appreciation of engineering techniques and their suitability.
• A practical knowledge of safe methods of working.
• A developed ability to assess site conditions from a physical inspection and interpretation of intrusive surveys and soils investigations.
• Practised in quantification and familiar with the standard methods of measurement.
• A record of securing successfully completed contracts.
• An ability to read and understand tender documents especially specifications, drawings and Terms & Conditions.
• Plan and organise the work necessary to provide the cost estimate by the due date.
• Work in a team to achieve the optimum result in the time available.
• Able in the use of the English language for verbal and written communication.
• Numerate with developed IT skills.