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Estimator Graduate Development Programme

Job reference: Lafarge Tarmac EGDP
Location: West Midlands
Salary: £22k to £25k
Job type: Permanent Full Time
Sector: Construction, Engineering, General management, Manufacturing
Duration: 18 to 24 month programme
Date posted: 15/07/2014
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Estimator Graduate Development Programme
Location: West Midlands
salary: £22k to £25k

Our Vision is to be our customers’ preferred choice for sustainable construction solutions. We have an excellent opportunity for a motivated graduate to join our team and help us make our vision come true. 

As UK’s leading construction materials and services company we have contributed to some of the UK’s biggest construction projects, including Wembley Stadium, Heathrow Terminal 5, The Shard and London 2012. For you, this means unique opportunities to oversee the pricing of work and the management of the tendering process, to secure work packages in line with budgetary amd business strategies and to secure and develop new business opportunties in line with regional initiatives.
 
Our Estimator Graduate Programme is designed to give you an immersive, hands-on experience. You'll gain a thorough rounded and grounded experience which will form the solid platform for a long career in contracting.

Primary Responsibilities

  • To initiate tendering process and obtain material and subcontract prices.
  • Negotiate contracts, taking an overview looking for commercial opportunity secure budgeted turnover and volume at chosen margin.
  • To undetake appraisal of completed tenders.
  • Ensure all enquiries are correctly dealt with.
  • Ensure compliance with policies including Health & Safety, Environmental, Sustainability and requirements of other statutory bodies.
  • Develop and influence all bid strategies.
  • Maintain records of tender success/failures.
  • Disseminate best practice.

Qualifications and Experience

Educated to HNC/HND level or equivalent
IOSH
Member of RICS, or ICES preferred
Analytical ability, process driven, conditions of:

  • Commercial awareness/Estimating techniques
  • Numerate/Literacy/Attention to detail
  • Client contact/liaison/sales / Customer Knowledge
  • Surfacing and civil engineering procedures
  • Method of measurement and conditions of contract
  • Current operating rates for Labour/Plant/Materials
  • Specification requirements
  • Working methods, equipment, materials, outputs.
  • Company procedures and QA requirement
  • Contract, specifications, method of measurement.

Everyone who works for us receives a comprehensive rewards package that reflects our status as a leading employer. We think you deserve to be rewarded for your hard work, and so have developed a range of innovative ways to do just that. Our aim is to create an environment in which business objectives and job requirements are clear, and in which employees are fairly rewarded for their personal contribution and the overall success of the company.
 
We are unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK. In the recruitment process all candidates are required to provide the necessary right to work information and documentation.

We are an equal opportunities employer.

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