The Opportunity

A challenging and interesting new opportunity has arisen at this leading national M&E Contractor for an experienced Estimating Manager. As the Estimating Manager you will be supporting the Business by overseeing all aspects of Estimating activities within this department.

The Position

Duties and responsibilities will include:

• Supervising the Estimating Team.
• Assisting in the management and completion of ‘Expressions of Interest’, conduct the ‘decision to bid’ process, Prequalification’s and Questionnaires.
• Participate in management reviews of workload and opportunities.
• Ensure full compliance with all company systems processes and procedures and ensure that all bids are controlled in accordance with corporate governance levels and procedures.
• Maintain a consistent approach to estimates prepared and delivered by using the Companies Estimating Package (Cypher)
• Maintain financial records of completed bids to maintain feel for competitive / winning market levels.
• Manage, direct, and set win strategies for bids.
• Lead bid strategy, review, and settlement meetings.
• Ensure estimators costs within bids are validated before submission.
• Plan, allocate and manage resources (internal and external) to process bids successfully.
• Support the development and training of staff within the Estimating team, including annual staff appraisals.
• Manage the Internal and External Estimating resource.
• Manage the tender enquiry process.
• Managing receipt of tender enquiry and ensure the project is entered onto the “Estimating” tracker by team.
• Read specification / tender documentation and request any further information that may be required.
• Read and understand main contractor terms and conditions and advise any issues in contract before tender process is finalised.
• Attend the final review / settlement meeting by directors / Pre-Construction Manager.
• Assist with the preparation of the tender documents and qualifications letter for offer to client.
• Monitor the supply chain, suppliers and work closely with the Head of Commercial and buying department to ensure that right price and best sub-contractor bases are utilised during the tendering process, to ensure improved visibility & efficiency between the estimating / buying departments.
• Hand over projects to the delivery team including better buying opportunities.
• Read, understand, and always implement the Company Health and Safety Policy and QA.

The Person

• The successful candidate will have a strong estimating background preferably gained from working in a Building Services environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer-facing skills.
• Have good spoken and written communication skills.
• Possess good organisational and problem solving skills.
• Be able to work accurately, with good attention to detail.
• Be able to use databases, spreadsheets, word processing and excel.

Apex M&E Solutions is a recruitment agency acting on behalf of this company