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Approach Personnel are working with a leading social housing maintenance contractor to recruit a Estimator to take responsibility for pricing winning planned maintenance / decent homes tenders for housing associations, local councils and RSL's.

Working alongside the Bid and Commercial teams, you will manage the pricing programme on multiple bids, working to the individual timescale required of each bid.

My client will also consider Assistant Estimators looking for the next step in their career or Quantity Surveyors looking to move into Estimating.

Estimator Responsibilities:

Undertake the preparation of tenders/bids/budget proposals allocated by the Head of Bids & Commercial Director for presentation to the relevant directors for final settlement.

Provide all information necessary for inclusion within the written bid submission.

Liaise with subcontractors/suppliers to obtain competitive/accurate quotations for specialist elements of the works.

Visit prospective projects to verify information contained within clients contract documentation and obtain any further information required to produce the tender.

Liaise with the Programme Manager to ensure all necessary information is provided for the production of the final tender programme.

Attend pre-contract handover meetings, all necessary bid meetings and client meetings as requested throughout the tender process.

Estimator Experience:

You will have a proven track record of producing the commercial pricing for £multi million bid submissions working within Social Housing Planned Maintenance / Decent Homes markets / Reactive Repairs Markets

Knowledge of system estimating software

Schedule of rates experience

Preparation of notes and clarifications for tender submissions

Demonstrate ability in the pricing of tender preliminaries

Ability to resource the tender through in-depth experience of Supply Chain capacity

Stable career history

Estimator Salary & Benefits:

You will be working for a modern, forward thinking business; that believes the strengths, skills and personalities of their people are the key to the group's success. This is a permanent, full time role for which you will receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package. You will be part of a stable business with ambitious growth plans over the next 5 years.

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