Senior Estimator

Position: Senior Estimator

Employment Type: Full-time

Location: UAE

We are recruiting a meticulous and highly strategic Senior Estimator on behalf of a major civil and building construction company in the UAE. Our client handles diverse high-value tenders and requires a seasoned estimation professional to spearhead competitive accurate and highly profitable bid submissions.

As a Senior Estimator you bear ultimate responsibility for tender accuracy cost competitiveness technical compliance and commercial clarity. You will lead and mentor a team of estimators ensuring that no tender is deemed complete until all quantities are rigorously verified potential risks are quantified costs are meticulously justified and final management approval is achieved.

• Initial Tender Assessment: Lead the initial comprehensive review of incoming tender documents (drawings specifications BOQ contract conditions). Evaluate project complexities identify risks establish delivery deadlines and distribute checklists internally.
• Inter-Departmental Coordination: Coordinate effectively with Procurement for rapid accurate subcontractor and supplier quotes; collaborate with QA/QC for technical standard inputs; and consult with PMC on buildability and construction methodologies.
• Quantity Take-Offs & BOQ Development: Lead execute and meticulously verify detailed quantity take-offs across architectural structural civil and MEP disciplines ensuring absolute alignment with IFC/tender drawings.
• Cost Estimation & Strategy: Develop highly accurate complete cost structures (labor equipment materials overheads profit margin metrics). Formulate activity-based unit rates compile internal cost comparison sheets and craft optimal pricing strategies aligned with market trends and margin targets.
• RFI Management & Tender Clarifications: Prepare submit and track technical and commercial RFIs to eliminate ambiguities updating bidding libraries and pricing models as clarifications arrive.
• Submission & Post-Tender Negotiations: Compile flawless fully compliant commercial and technical proposals on time. Respond to post-tender queries provide transparent breakdowns participate in client/consultant negotiations and smoothly hand over won projects to the T&C and PMC divisions with comprehensive cost-deviation models.
• Team Leadership & Database Management: Supervise train and review the output of junior Estimators. Maintain and continuously update internal cost libraries historical pricing databases productivity benchmarks and market trend research.

• Experience: Extensive senior-level experience in construction estimation quantity surveying and tendering within the UAE.
• Technical Mastery: Masterful command over civil structural and architectural quantity take-offs; deep familiarity with pricing strategies productivity indicators and market rates.
• Leadership: Demonstrated capability to guide train mentor and review an internal team of estimators to achieve flawless accuracy.
• Attributes: Analytical sharp risk-aware and unconditionally dedicated to precise figures and documentation. Excellent commercial negotiation and client interface skills.