Job Description
Murphy is recruiting for a Estimator to work with Water in the North West-
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We provide end-to-end services for major water and sewage companies such as Thames Water, Severn Trent Water, Northern Ireland Water, Yorkshire Water and United Utilities, and for several water-only companies including SES Water, Bristol Water and South East Water.
We also provide a full design, build, operate and maintain service for Uisce -ireann and we currently operate over 25 of their facilities, ensuring they run efficiently and comply fully with EPA regulations.
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A day in the life of a Murphy Estimator
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- Attend project start-up meetings and make site visits.
- Produce enquiry schedules for scope of works & packages required from the tender documentation, drawings and specifications issued.
- Identify tender deliverables required from the Project Designers.
- Evaluate returned quotations from suppliers and where necessary enters into correspondence with suppliers to bring quotations in line with the project specification requirements.
- Prepare BOQ for scopes of projects on estimating programs (such as Excel, Causeway, CCS Candy & Kubus).
- Input to project risk register and attends a project risk meeting in the presence of Estimators, Planning Engineers, Design Co-ordinators and Clients representatives.
- Attend tender price settlement meetings in the presence of the tender team with Estimating Manager,
- Attend Tender Handover meetings in the presence of Estimators and projects team.
- Assist the Estimating Manager in promoting interaction with the appropriate functional leader to facilitate successful development of solutions to problems and estimates.
- Make tender amendments where applicable utilising client feedback on submitted tenders.
- In conjunction with the Contract Manager / Senior Management review contract details relevant to the company''s ability to deliver under the contract.
- Review tender documents assessing scope, risks involved, tender complexity and provide feedback to Estimating Manager-
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Still interested, does this sound like you?
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- Successful estimating experience within water
- Strong commercial awareness and a strong Negotiator
- High understanding of construction processes and contractual knowledge (NEC)
- Experience with CCS Candy Estimating Software
- Degree educated ideally or with a relevant substantial work history