Job description
- Job Reference: JMESC211026
- Job Title: Estimator – Specialist Construction Works
- Salary: £ – depending on experience
- Location: Magherafelt, Northern Ireland
Project Engineer
VANRATH is partnering with an award-winning property care specialist company who are seeking a skilled Estimator to join their dynamic team and drive successful tender submissions. This is an exceptional chance to work within a reputable organisation delivering heritage, commercial, and civils projects across multiple jurisdictions.
Salary / Benefits
- Competitive annual salary, commensurate with experience and qualifications
- Company-provided mobile phone and laptop to support remote working and communication
- Contributory company pension scheme to support your future financial well-being
- Generous holiday entitlement of 31 days, including statutory days, with options for holiday buying or selling
- Funding for professional memberships and ongoing CPD to support your career development
- Regular company-sponsored events, including summer and Christmas gatherings, fostering a positive team culture
- Opportunities for career progression within a supportive and dynamic environment
Client
Our client is a leading specialist remedial contractor registered with the PCA, who focus on timber preservation, damp proofing, structural repairs, and basement waterproofing. They carry out works on heritage, commercial, and civils projects with a strong reputation for diagnosis and quality delivery. This award-winning company operates across multiple jurisdictions with a collaborative and professional team. The business is expanding leading to fantastic opportunities for the right candidate to grow within that expansion.
About you
- A minimum of three years’ recent estimating experience within construction, specialist remedial works, refurbishment, or a closely related field
- HNC, HND, degree or equivalent qualification in quantity surveying, construction management, civil engineering, or a relevant discipline; or extensive demonstrable estimating experience (minimum five years)
- Strong ability to produce precise measurements and quantities from detailed drawings, specifications, and surveys
- Proficiency in building fully priced cost models covering labour, materials, subcontractors, plant, and preliminaries
- Excellent numerical and analytical skills, ensuring high accuracy and attention to detail in all estimates
- Effective communicator with the ability to present complex cost information clearly to clients, suppliers, and colleagues
- Full, clean UK/Ireland driving licence and willingness to occasionally travel across NI, ROI, and GB
What you’ll do
- Lead the estimation process from initial enquiry to tender submission, ensuring timeliness and competitive pricing
- Interpret survey reports, drawings, and specifications to develop comprehensive scope and cost estimates for a range of remedial works, including damp-proofing, timber preservation, waterproofing, and structural repairs
- Build detailed, project-specific cost models, factoring in labour, materials, plant, subcontractor quotations, site-specific logistics, and project risks
- Obtain, analyse, and negotiate quotations from suppliers and subcontractors, ensuring scope coverage and best value
- Maintain and develop relationships with trusted supply chain partners, expanding sourcing options to optimise cost and quality
- Prepare thorough tender documentation, including assumptions, provisional sums, and risk allowances, with clear justifications and supporting information
- Participate in site visits and surveys as needed, working alongside surveying colleagues to validate assumptions and conditions
- Support post-tender activities including value engineering, cost feedback, and continuous process improvement
- Ensure all estimates comply with current legislation, health and safety standards, and quality assurance protocols, including GDPR, health and safety regulations, and client-specific requirements
For further information on this vacancy, or any other Built Environment job in Co Antrim or wider Northern Ireland, please apply via the link below or contact James McIntosh for a confidential discussion
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