• Prepare detailed cost estimates for tenders, proposals, and variations • Analyse drawings, specifications, and scope documents • Build up rates for labour, materials, and subcontractors • Obtain and compare supplier and subcontractor pricing • Identify risks and opportunities within estimates • Assist in preparing and submitting tenders • Ensure estimates are completed within required timeframes • Maintain consistency across pricing and submissions • Price variations and scope changes • Support PMs with cost advice during delivery • Assist with cost planning and budgeting • Maintain estimating databases and pricing schedules • Input job cost data and pricing records • Keep all estimate documentation up to date • Prepare take-offs and templates • Support CRM updates and document management • Assist quote follow-ups and pipeline tracking • Prepare estimating reports and cost comparisons • Support sales pipeline reporting • Ensure data accuracy • Use AI/tools to speed up estimating and admin tasks • Follow and improve SOPs

Role Description - Estimating & Pricing - Prepare detailed cost estimates for tenders, proposals, and variations - Analyse drawings, specifications, and scope documents - Build up rates for labour, materials, and subcontractors - Obtain and compare supplier and subcontractor pricing - Identify risks and opportunities within estimates - Tender Support - Assist in preparing and submitting tenders - Ensure estimates are completed within required timeframes - Maintain consistency across pricing and submissions - Variations & Costing Support - Price variations and scope changes - Support PMs with cost advice during delivery - Assist with cost planning and budgeting - Data / Systems - Maintain estimating databases and pricing schedules - Input job cost data and pricing records - Keep all estimate documentation up to date - Admin & Support - Prepare take-offs and templates - Support CRM updates and document management - Assist quote follow-ups and pipeline tracking - Reporting - Prepare estimating reports and cost comparisons - Support sales pipeline reporting - Ensure data accuracy - Efficiency - Use AI/tools to speed up estimating and admin tasks - Follow and improve SOPs Qualifications - Detail-Oriented: A "measure twice, cut once" mindset where data accuracy is paramount. - Analytical Thinker: Ability to deconstruct complex drawings and specifications into logical costs. - Tech-Savvy: High comfort level with technology and an interest in leveraging AI/modern tools. - Process-Driven: Disciplined in following SOPs and maintaining organized documentation. - Efficiency-Focused: A drive to meet tight deadlines and reduce manual admin workloads. Requirements - Estimate Precision: Accuracy of estimates compared to actual project costs. - Speed: Meeting turnaround time targets on pricing requests. - Growth: Contribution to tender success rates and pipeline health. - Innovation: Implementation of efficiency improvements and system scalability.

• The Estimator plays a vital role within our company, responsible for preparing detailed and accurate quotations for works. • They assess project specifications, scope, and costs, working closely with suppliers, subcontractors, and clients to gather pricing, evaluate materials, and ensure competitiveness. • Estimators not only represent the company externally but also contribute directly to its growth by securing new business through winning quotes. • Their work is critical to maintaining profitability, building client trust, and driving successful project delivery. • Proactively engaging with clients to encourage quotation opportunities, ensuring consistent client interaction to secure requests for quotations and detailed tender invitations. • Write and issue desktop quotation where possible by obtaining information to minimise costs • Attend site visits for quote scoping • Write and issue clear, itemised, step-by-step quotes using CRM system • Liaise with suppliers and subcontractors to ensure cost competitiveness • Follow up on outstanding quotes to improve conversion rates • Schedule quotation booking in the CRM ensuring correct trade, geography, and availability • Issue clear quote orders to engineers or supply chain with all necessary info • Coordinate materials, access arrangements, and client communications • Act as single point of contact for the client throughout the job lifecycle • Conduct quality checks (photos, feedback, completion verification) • Resolve issues proactively and escalate where necessary • Provide job summaries and updates to clients as required • Hit weekly and monthly KPIs: Quote turnaround and conversion rate 25% • Participate in daily stand-ups and report performance metrics • Continuously seek ways to improve speed, accuracy, and customer experience

Role Description As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll be a trusted commercial advisor, shaping outcomes on complex client projects. You will provide strategic commercial insight, lead on contract and commercial management, and work closely with delivery teams, contractors, and subcontractors to ensure every project stays on track and delivers value. - Your role goes beyond traditional consultancy. - Identify smarter ways of working and drive process improvements. - Collaborate directly with stakeholders to resolve challenges and unlock opportunities. - Operate with confidence, clarity, and credibility. - Create capable, collaborative environments where teams thrive and projects achieve the very best outcomes. Qualifications - Degree or equivalent in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, or Engineering (HNC/HND considered). - Full UK driving license and access to a car for business travel. - Client-focused, commercially astute, and skilled in fostering collaboration and accountability. - Strong excel skills and experience of forecasting, Cost Value Reconciliation reporting, and financial reporting. - Experience of mentoring and supervising others in a commercial team. - Ideally, professional membership (or working towards) with RICS, CIPS, or ICE preferred. - Strong understanding of NEC4 contracts and contract strategies, or similar forms. - Effective communication, teamwork, and leadership skills. - Ability to work collaboratively on-site with project teams to deliver success. Benefits - £5,775 flex allowance, bonus scheme (up to 10%), enhanced family leave. - Rest & Recharge perks: exclusive holiday lodge, training and resilience retreat, 25 days leave (plus bank holidays), with buy/sell options. - Matched pension contributions (up to 8%), private medical insurance, and health cash plan. - Career development support, featuring NEC4 accredited training, periodical NEC expert training and tailored management and leadership development pathways. - In-house APC Counsellor support and sponsorship available. Company Description We are a Chartered Quantity Surveying practice delivering NEC4 excellence across the UK's most complex infrastructure, energy, and engineering programmes. For more than 25 years, we've provided commercial assurance, contract administration, and trusted project support grounded in collaboration and clarity. Our ambition is bold: to become the UK's No.1 NEC4 QS Consultancy — the partner clients turn to for certainty, innovation, and commercial leadership, and the workplace where professionals grow, lead, and make meaningful impact. Our distinction lies in the combination of deep NEC4 expertise and a people‑first philosophy. Through models like Everything DiSC® and The Five Behaviours®, we help teams work better together and bring NEC4's principles of trust, cooperation, and transparency to life on real projects. Close collaboration with wider project teams is fundamental to our approach. Our Quantity Surveyors are fully integrated into the project delivery team, actively involved on site, and working in the detail that shapes successful delivery. If you're looking for a company that recognises your achievements and invests in your future, you'll find your place here. At Solomons, every career is a learning journey — supported, structured, and designed to help you deliver work that matters. Joining us means a career built on clear NEC4 and RICS pathways, one‑to‑one mentorship, and lifelong learning that blends technical mastery with personal development.