Estimator - Rail & Civils

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Sector: Rail

Location: London

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SSA ae recruiting for a Estimator to join a leading global, specialist engineering and construction company within their rail division working on Network Rail CP6 projects. My client have an annual turnover of over 1b and have worked on both large and smaller schemes such as HS2 Phase one & Crossrail
As an Estimator, the responsibilities of your role will include but not be limited to:

• Check Tender Information for completeness and raise potential areas of concern – can this lack of information be useful to us at contract stage? It may be better to leave the lack of information un-clarified.
• Produce quantity take-offs from tender information/drawings using either traditional methods or Causeway/similar software.
• Regularly back-up/save work, in a secure manner, to ensure no data loss exceeds a couple of hours work.
• Preparation, using agreed company format, of Sub-contract & Material enquiry documentation. Forward documentation to Administration Department for formal enquiry issue. Advise on any companies/suppliers who should or should not receive the enquiry.
• Analysis of Sub-Contracts, supplier and merchant quotations – including “normalisation”
• Analysis of benchmark data from historic projects/norms against the first principles tender build ups where possible.
• Discuss and agree resourcing and works outputs with Planner, Bid Manager and delivery team working on the tender.
• On occasions support the bid team by producing methodologies for works delivery to go with tender submissions.

Essential:
Rail / Civils Estimating experience
Civil engineering project experience
Working knowledge of Excel (& Word) and Estimating software.