Facade Estimator

Brief Overview

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Facade Estimator to join a fantastic building envelope specialist sub-contractor

Package     

£60 to £70k

About our Client

My client is a Building envelope specialist sub-contractor who works new build market. They work on projects up to £7million in value. They have an excellent reputation within this sector and are actively looking for a Planner to join their team.

Duties & Responsibilities

•     The successful candidate will be expected to prepare tenders for various types of contractors including tier 1?s. Tenders can exceed  several million in value.     

      

•     Undertaking accurate take offs and preparing detailed scope mark-ups from construction drawings using Bluebeam Software.     

      

•     Calculating rates including labour, material costs, overheads and profit, preliminary items using excel estimating spreadsheets.     

      

•     Offering value engineering solutions.     

      

•     Populating client bills of quantities and pricing schedules     

      

•     Issuing enquiries and gathering material prices with the assistance of the estimating document controller from a range of manufacturers and suppliers.     

      

•     Issuing enquires for U value and condensation risk calculations to our suppliers.       

      

•     Assisting the estimating director with reviewing enquiry documents thoroughly, ensuring compliance with specifications, scope of works documents, attendances, section 106 local labour obligations etc.     

      

•     Reviewing of client programmes and identifying the time related risks associated with them.     

      

•     Attending meetings and negotiating with clients on-site and via Teams.       

      

•     Developing and maintaining relationships with key clients and suppliers.     

      

•     For secured projects attending detailed handover meetings with   commercial, design and management.     

      

•     Assisting the estimating document controller with maintaining accurate and detailed records of tender submissions, tender queries, supplier quotations and RFI?s.     

      

•     Assisting the estimating director with issue of sub-contractor enquiries.              

About the Candidate     

• Would expect the successful candidate to be able to demonstrate their wide range of experience and knowledge in CWCT tested rainscreen cladding solutions, structural framing systems and cavity barrier systems such as: - Aluminium Rainscreen. - Composite rainscreen. - Timber Rainscreen. - Cementitious rainscreen cladding. - Blick Slips and Terracotta type rainscreen. - SFS Framing systems eg. Metsec and other manufacturers. - Cavity Barriers- Siderise, Tenmat, Rockwool     

      

• Knowledge of traditional long strip standing seam cladding systems would be an advantage, but not essential.     

      

• Excellent knowledge of non-combustible cladding system     

      

• Computer literate- especially in Excel, Word, Outlook and Bluebeam     

      

• You will have excellent people and telephone skills with smart  appearance and be able to establish great relationships with clients     and suppliers.     

Points of Appeal 

Great company to work for
Progression within the company
Interesting projects