Senior Estimator & Quantity Surveyor
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Hunt StResidential construction
Looking for Filipino (Philippines-based) candidates, 40 hours per week, aligned with Perth business hours (same time zone as Manila).ContractSenior
Salary2,000 - 2,500 AUD per month
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Job Details
- Languages
- Clear written and spoken English
- Experience
- At least five years of estimating and quantity surveying experience working with Australian residential builders, including high-end renovations.
- Required Skills
- Microsoft Excel
Requirements
- At least five years of estimating and quantity surveying experience with Australian residential builders, including high-end renovations.
- Sound knowledge of Perth and Western Australian trade, supplier and material pricing.
- Experience pricing custom joinery, natural stone, large-format tiling, wet areas, cladding and premium fixtures.
- Proficiency with digital take-off software such as Cubit, Buildxact, Databuild, Bluebeam or similar.
- Strong knowledge of the National Construction Code (NCC), Australian Standards, trade scopes and construction sequencing.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Clear written and spoken English, including confidence communicating by email with clients, designers, suppliers and subcontractors.
- Strong organisational skills and a proactive approach to competing deadlines.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and collaborate with a small team.
- Experience with Buildertrend, including estimates, purchase orders and Change Orders, is highly regarded.
- Experience using AI tools such as Claude in estimating is highly regarded.
- Experience in variation pricing, job costing and cost-to-complete forecasting is highly regarded.
- Familiarity with HIA contracts, a design-and-construct environment and Xero is highly regarded.
Responsibilities
- Prepare quantity take-offs and trade-by-trade estimates from architectural, interior design, structural and joinery drawings and specifications.
- Build RFQ packages, send requests to subcontractors and suppliers, follow up, compare quotations and compile estimates.
- Price high-end finishes, identify documentation gaps, raise RFIs and flag cost risks, provisional sums, exclusions and value engineering opportunities.
- Cross-check estimates using Claude, revise estimates based on Directors' feedback and lead internal pricing reviews.
- Build jobs in Buildertrend with master budgets, cost codes and purchase orders, and hand over cost breakdowns and risk items.
- Price variations, prepare Buildertrend Change Orders and re-price client selection changes.
- Track costs against budgets and update cost-to-complete forecasts every fortnight with the Project Director and Accounts Manager.
- Maintain the materials, labour and trade rate library and manage the quoting pipeline.
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