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Estimator OR Senior Estimator
Durham, County Durham
£50,000 ‑ £70,000 + £5,500 Car Allowance + Private Healthcare + Bonus + 6% Pension (increases 1% every 3 years) + Phone/Laptop + 26 days holiday and BH (increases 1 day every 3 years)
Your role would be shadowing the Senior Surveyor in the first instance, with a particular immediate focus on new‑build leisure centres for David Lloyds.
Key Duties
- Leading and managing bids (as required).
- Ensuring compliance with RMS Bid Management processes.
- Managing Estimators, Assistant Estimators and Trainee Estimators as required.
- Coach, mentor and assist with training junior staff to support development.
- Deliver core services on project bids.
- Input to monthly reporting.
- Meeting all deadlines for bid return dates and as may be otherwise set by management.
- Other duties as may be required by senior management.
Projects
- Attending and inputting to bid launch meetings.
- Reviewing bid documents and developing a bid strategy to give a competitive edge.
- Producing market competitive, nett cost estimates for bids in line with the RMS.
- Carrying out accurate quantity take‑offs for the purposes of estimating – where required.
- Checking externally produced bills of quantities for accuracy.
- Pricing groundworks, drainage, sub‑structure, masonry, joinery work and partitions from first principles.
- Preparing and issuing sub‑contract and material enquiries.
- Liaise with the procurement department to obtain material quotations.
- Inputting into gateway documents and gateway review meetings.
- Establishing value engineering opportunities.
- Establishing risks and inputting to project risk register.
- Preparing and checking tender letters, technical notes and qualifications for issue.
- Capturing data and preparing benchmarking reports to support bids.
- Ensuring all key estimating data is effectively transferred to the delivery team at handover stage.
Company: Think Recruitment
Location: North East
Job Description:
Estimator OR Senior Estimator
Durham, County Durham
£50,000 ‑ £70,000 + £5,500 Car Allowance + Private Healthcare + Bonus + 6% Pension (increases 1% every 3 years) + Phone/Laptop + 26 days holiday and BH (increases 1 day every 3 years)
Your role would be shadowing the Senior Surveyor in the first instance, with a particular immediate focus on new‑build leisure centres for David Lloyds.
Key Duties
- Leading and managing bids (as required).
- Ensuring compliance with RMS Bid Management processes.
- Managing Estimators, Assistant Estimators and Trainee Estimators as required.
- Coach, mentor and assist with training junior staff to support development.
- Deliver core services on project bids.
- Input to monthly reporting.
- Meeting all deadlines for bid return dates and as may be otherwise set by management.
- Other duties as may be required by senior management.
Projects
- Attending and inputting to bid launch meetings.
- Reviewing bid documents and developing a bid strategy to give a competitive edge.
- Producing market competitive, nett cost estimates for bids in line with the RMS.
- Carrying out accurate quantity take‑offs for the purposes of estimating – where required.
- Checking externally produced bills of quantities for accuracy.
- Pricing groundworks, drainage, sub‑structure, masonry, joinery work and partitions from first principles.
- Preparing and issuing sub‑contract and material enquiries.
- Liaise with the procurement department to obtain material quotations.
- Inputting into gateway documents and gateway review meetings.
- Establishing value engineering opportunities.
- Establishing risks and inputting to project risk register.
- Preparing and checking tender letters, technical notes and qualifications for issue.
- Capturing data and preparing benchmarking reports to support bids.
- Ensuring all key estimating data is effectively transferred to the delivery team at handover stage.
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Posted: May 20th, 2026