Senior Estimator - Civil Contractor

• Market leading and growing civil and demo contracting business with blue chip clients
• Challenging and varied projects from $1m up to $100m+, excellent pipeline
• Great career progression and company culture, must have strong communication skills

Experience can be in either Civil or Demolition or both, flexible on background. Ideally having worked on projects circa $10m or larger.
  
Our client is a well-established and market leading civil contractor, they are looking for an experienced and dedicated Estimator to join their growing business.
  
Our client provides their services across a number of industry sectors such as building construction, industrial, mining and resources, transport infrastructure, environmental etc. and you will be responsible for contributing to the successful delivery of a challenging projects.
  
Types of projects include demolition, excavation, retention, piling, foundations, ground improvement, soft and hard landscaping, site remediation and rehabilitation etc. Typical values from $2.5 to $50m however can go up to $100m+.
  
Candidates will need to have strong communication skills as will be part of the preconstruction team and will be involved in putting the tender together as well as tender interviews.
  
Years of experience:
5 to 15 years +
  
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Working on tenders
• Coordinating internal and external resources
• Preparation and submission of tenders
• Evaluate / review tender and estimating process for cost effectiveness
• Tender negotiations
• Coordinate tender handover to project team
• Prepare budgets based on tender submission
• Assess and price contract variation orders
• Liaise with clients, subcontractors, suppliers, consultants

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Tertiary qualification in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or similar
• 5 – 15+ years’ management experience on civil construction projects with a project value of $5m to $20m+
• Proven understanding of construction with a hands-on approach
• Effective problem solving abilities
• High level of commercial acumen
• High level of organisation and time management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

For further information, contact Jacob Montague-Day on 0406 849 202 or via email to Jacob.montague-day@Amida-recruit.com.au or Lisa Naughton on 0450 302 738 or via email to lisa.naughton@amida-recruit.com.au or Sam Barnes on 0429 306 688 or via email to sam.barnes@amida-recruit.com.au