Senior Estimator leading to Directorship - Civils - Dubai

Sommerman Skinner Associates (SSA Limited)

Dubai, UAE

Ref: KP181-1221

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

client is a Tier 1 Main Contractor, that are extremely well respected across the Middle East, having worked there for over 50 years now. Year on year that have shown growth, in terms of Turnover, staff, size of projects as well as Sectors of industry and locations across the Middle East.

They will typically be Tendering for the largest projects currently happening within Civil Engineering (Highway / Maintenance / Infrastructure / Roads / Rail / Utilities).

JOB PURPOSE: To act as the technically competent person responsible for competitively pricing tenders from new and existing clients. To secure the future profitability of the Group by tendering and winning contracts for each division whilst operating to appropriate industry standards. To obtain feedback, both positive and negative, on submittals to continually improve the Company’s estimating service and thereby secure more works.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES

General
- Develops specific knowledge of the fields for which responsible, and as required assists in other areas.
- Maintains and enhances knowledge of programming, pricing and competitive market rates.
- Maintains a programme of continual professional development (CPD) through courses and seminars; feeds back to colleagues and manager.

Commercial
- Responsible for pricing tender enquiries from the client’s bill of quantities or by building a bill of quantities from architects/engineers drawings and specifications.
- Ensures contract requirements regarding time, phases, quality and quantity are fully appraised before pricing.
- Analyses and identifies areas within the tender enquiry to establish where the company can maximise profit/returns.
- Reviews the tender requirements taking into consideration the drawings, site Investigation, and any specification and contract conditions.
- Ensures that tenders are completed and submitted to tight deadlines to ensure that tenders are received by the client within the specified timescales.
- Maintains company records to ensure the database accurately reflects the current status of all tenders.
- Presents completed tenders to the Chief Estimator and General Manager for approval to meet company requirements.
- Makes use of commercial buying opportunities.
- Liaises with the client to secure appropriate commercial and contractual terms.
- Secures pricing information from the company Buyer for materials, plant and equipment to establish where economies of scale can be achieved.
- Assess the contract risk to limit the risk to the company and maximise opportunities.
- Communicates with suppliers and sub-contractors to receive the most competitive prices for each tender.
- Undertakes site visits to review the logistical issues of the site; inspects the quality of materials used and establishes any constraints.

Health & Safety, Environment and Quality
- Reviews pre-tender Health and Safety plans, Environmental plans, planning consents, specifications etc. To ensure due allowance for all HSEQ requirements.
- Complies with all current Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental policies and procedures to ensure that the company meets all statutory requirements; promotes a culture of safe working practices for the department and direct reports.
- Accounts for the provision of PPE and additional staffing to provide enhanced safe working.
- Ensures that adequate resources are allocated to all contracts at tender stage.
- Analyses the client’s reports regarding potential contamination of materials and builds into the tender.

Financial
- Manage tendering costs including site investigations and tender design work.
- Ensures that tenders submitted include for agreed margins..
- Undertakes work to achieve targets as determined by the Chief Estimator.

Requirements

Contracts
- Carries out tender programming to sufficient detail to ensure contractual obligations with regard to time can be met.
- Ensures prices are appropriately informed by programme constraints.
- Ensures all tender documents (including drawings), correspondence, build-ups, allowances etc for successful tenders are copied into handover files for the appropriate General Manager, Commercial Manager and Contracts/Project manager.
- Copies all contract documentation (excluding drawings) being specifications, Pre-tender Health and Safety Plan, etc to the HSEQ Manager on contract award to ensure the Contract Management Plan can be developed in a timely manner.
- Attends the Contract Start-Up meeting post contract award and after fulfilling points 4 and 5 above to ensure the contract is appropriately mobilised.
- Collates feedback from Operations on outputs and rates to continuously improve the data upon which tenders are predicted.

About the Company

SSA Ltd. (Sommerman Skinner Associates) find out the detail to allow you to make qualified judgments about your career and its progression. On the companies that we represent (over 2000 spread across a diverse spectrum of industry) we will be able to inform you of contracts pending, awarded, company growth, opportunity, relative reward and internal prospects. We believe that through spending time and effort front end through interviewing or individual dedication we can offer real advice that will be valued. Our founder is degree qualified with extensive exposure to industry and with a career also behind him in Recruitment Management. Our team is made up of qualified construction professionals. We specialise in both permanent and freelance opportunities to qualified construction professionals.

Disciplines covered include:

Site Engineers, Site Agents, Project Managers, Contracts Managers, Quantity Surveyors, Commercial Managers, Planners, Safety, Purchasers, Estimators and Design Executive.

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