* - Do you have high attention to detail?
* - Do you have experience in residential housing industry
* - Come and join a great team and help build dreams
Primary Purpose:
Produce accurate budgets and orders for site commencement from working drawings and all relevant documentation. Produce accurate ‘Bill of Quantities’ from plans, engineering, and other PC related software. Document all required pricing requests in a manner, which allows operations staff to access and enter into the final product.
Essential Job Functions:
* Liaising with drafting personnel, engineers, builders, contractors, suppliers and project managers.
* Analysing architectural and engineering drawings and specifications to prepare a 'Bill of Quantities' listing the individual components required for the project and related actions.
* Checking on changes of design to assess the effects on cost.
* Issuing purchase orders and or contracts for the respective functions and calculating the company's required margin in accordance with company policy.
* Analysing plans and other documentation to prepare time, cost, materials and labour estimates.
* Assessing cost effectiveness of products, projects or services, tracking actual costs relative to tenders as the project develops.
* Preparing cost and expenditure statements and other necessary documentation at regular intervals for the duration of the project.
* Assist in any invoicing queries, ETS’s and respond in a timely manner.
Typical qualifications and/or Experience
* At least 3 years’ experience in either production and/or sales estimating
* Proven skills in estimating and plan checking with sound knowledge of the new home construction process
* Strong teamwork focus and an ability to build and maintain strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
* Accuracy with figures and ability to meet given timelines
* Strong verbal and the written communications skills