The Opportunity Assistant Estimator
This is an opportunity to join a highly collaborative, team-based environment where you will receive on the job training, mentoring from very experienced colleagues, appropriate external training

Job Purpose / Summary
Supporting your experienced colleagues and developing your own experience, knowledge and competence in the provision of cost estimates for materials and manpower, contract management, project scheduling, vendor management and procurement for projects ranging from -5k to -3 million.

Duties and Responsibilities
Assist in on-site surveys and report writing
Helping to identify unique and innovative cost solutions in conjunction with the Design and Delivery Teams
Helping to develop sales opportunities with prospective and existing customers
Maintaining relationships and uncovering sales opportunities with existing customers
Assisting in generating technical proposals
Reviewing / researching historical data and compiling summary reports to assist in developing guidelines and precedents for future estimates
Preparing take offs from drawings and direct site measurements
Reading and understanding the common forms of construction contract in use today
Reading and interpreting technical drawings and specifications
Working with the project management team in establishing a bidders list, soliciting and evaluating subcontractor proposals and scopes of work
Preparing quantity surveys and reviewing project plans and specifications for constructability and value engineering
Reading and interpreting technical drawings and specifications

Knowledge & Experience
Good knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Word
Analytical, mathematical & computer skills, with critical thinking ability
Sufficient Mathematics and English GCSEs, with Mathematics at a minimum of Grade C and higher learning grades for acceptance onto a Degree course in Quantity Surveying or other related Degree
Excellent communication skills
To be prepared to travel around the UK to various sites with colleagues and independently as your experience develops
A full, clean UK driving license, or working towards

Skills & Attributes

Communicating & Influencing

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to develop tenacity and work proactively: developing positive relationships with all stakeholders including internal colleagues, clients and supply chain

Commercial Awareness

An acumen for grasping the importance of how dynamic and effective pricing of projects win business, whilst achieving targeted profit margins

Planning & Organising

Excellent organisational skills and time-management ability; able to deliver quality work in a timely manner

Self-Development
Through on the job learning, peer mentoring, internal/external courses and working towards achievement of Degree
Keep up to date with industry sector and product developments, both externally and across the Group
External and Internal Networking