Quantity Suveyor / Estimator West Midlands Upto£60,000 + benefits Based out of their cardiff office, our client is looking to recruit a Construction Estimator, someone with experience pricing new build projects with large groundworks, Concrete, and steel packages. Working closely with the Operations Director, and Project Manager , taking chargefrom initial enquiry through to bid submittal, attend interview and then onto procurement of subcontract packages upon successful award, before handing over. Duties will include. * Production and co-ordination of all bid documentation. * Analysing tender documents and preparing package list forenquiries, preparing documents, and issuing subcontractor and material enquiries * Pricing traditional trades analytically from first principles including resource bills using materials and suppliers’ quotations. * Production and analysis of subcontractor comparisons * Pricing tender preliminaries * Co-ordinating all aspects of the tender pricing process, including presentation of tenders to Operations Director at the tender adjudication meetings * Completing detailed risk analysis schedules and liaising with the commercial manager of methods of incorporation into bids * PrepareCost Plans from client's information. * Provide Cash Flow forecasts * Attendance at mid/post tender interviews with the Client team on bids under consideration * Production of handover documentation to Project Surveyors on successful bids The Candidate: The ideal candidate must have previousexperience of working within civil engineering projects and possess the relevant qualification in Quantity Surveying or similar. * BTEC in Building Studies, Building Engineering or Building Management * HNC / HND / Degree in Quantity Surveying / Construction Management * A minimum of 3 years