Customer Support:

Customer Support:

• Assist with creating robust accurate cost plans through the various design gateways up to target price. • Assist with guiding the design team and inform the customer with respect to affordability. • Use technical experience to assist in identifying opportunities and risks along with solutions to add value. • Collaborate with the project team to identify and value alternative design solutions where required and present to the customer for review. • Assist in developing a procurement strategy to meet the needs of the project. • Seek to gain knowledge of the key trades packages. • Collaborate with the design team by assisting the costing changes being tracked through the change control process. • Broadening your knowledge of contractual and framework requirements. • Ensure you understand the estimating system (Conquest) and its functionality. • Assist with completion of standard documentation. • Help provide a detailed cost information package to the commercial build team at handover to include completed comparisons, bills of quantities, tender book, and quotations.

Within the role some of the key duties/responsibilities will include: • Ensure that all costs on the project are in accordance with the project scope, the customer’s requirements and current legislation. • Collaborate with the wider preconstruction team to secure and convert tender projects. • Create robust accurate cost plans through the various design gateways up to target price. • Guide the design team and inform the customer with respect to affordability. • Use technical experience to identify opportunities and risks along with solutions to add value. • Collaborate with the project team to identify and value alternative design solutions where required and present to the customer for review. • Support the design discipline by costing change control items as identified and track through the RIBA Stages. • Complete or manage project take–offs to the required level of detail (SMM7/NRM2/building quants). • Provide a complete and robust cost information pack during the substantiation process to the commercial build team at handover, to include completed comparisons, bills of quantities, tender book and quotations. • Lead the procurement schedule and build supply chain interaction and relationships. • Review the performance of supply chain partners with the operations team. • Collaborate with our operations team throughout the preconstruction process to ensure, logistics, programmes and onsite activities and buildability are accounted for in our cost. • Collaborate with the design lead to capture and include design fees in the tender summary book (consultants, statutory authorities, surveys, schedules, and the like). • Assist in the change control process, identifying design changes between RIBA stages, advising on the impact of the change and approximate cost. • Carry out cost assessments on alternative design solutions to inform the final design and project/customer budget. • Make customer insight led and data-driven decisions to provide solutions to customer requirements.