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Hunt St

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1 - 10 employees

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

🤝 B2B

Recruitment • HR Tech • B2B

Hunt St is an Australia-based recruiting firm founded by brothers Shaun and Eliot with the aim of helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) hire top offshore talent directly, avoiding the high costs associated with traditional outsourcing agencies. The company offers a unique one-time finder's fee model, enabling clients to save significantly on recruitment costs. They provide comprehensive services including job postings, candidate screenings, interviews, and legal support for compliant remote hiring. Hunt St specializes in sourcing talent from countries like the Philippines, Nepal, Indonesia, and India, offering a transparent and ethical hiring process that allows businesses to provide fairer compensation to employees while ensuring stringent security and compliance measures are met.

📋 Description

• Review tender documentation, engineering drawings, specifications, and contract requirements. • Analyze project scope, commercial risks, exclusions, and opportunities before pricing. • Prepare tender clarifications and ensure all submissions comply with client requirements. • Develop competitive tender submissions within required deadlines. • Complete accurate quantity take-offs from engineering drawings and project documentation. • Prepare detailed cost estimates covering labour, plant, materials, subcontractors, transport, and project overheads. • Build and maintain estimate worksheets and pricing models using historical cost data where appropriate. • Validate pricing assumptions to ensure estimates remain commercially competitive. • Source and evaluate supplier and subcontractor quotations. • Negotiate pricing where appropriate to maximize tender competitiveness. • Maintain relationships with suppliers and subcontractors to support future tenders. • Identify cost-saving opportunities and value engineering options during the estimating process. • Assess project risks and recommend appropriate pricing allowances and contingencies. • Support pricing updates, tender revisions, and post-tender clarifications where required. • Assist with project handovers to operations following successful tenders. • Maintain estimating records and historical pricing databases. • Review completed projects against estimated costs to improve future estimate accuracy. • Contribute ideas to improve estimating processes and tender quality.

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years of experience as a Civil Estimator within the Australian civil construction industry. • Demonstrated experience preparing end-to-end civil tenders independently. • Strong understanding of Australian civil construction methodologies and estimating practices. • Proven experience completing detailed quantity take-offs from engineering drawings. • Ability to interpret civil drawings, specifications, geotechnical reports, and tender documentation. • Strong commercial acumen with the ability to assess project risks and pricing strategies. • Experience obtaining and evaluating supplier and subcontractor quotations. • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills. • Excellent analytical, numerical, and problem-solving skills. • Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills. • Strong written and verbal English communication skills. • Ability to work autonomously in a fully remote environment. • Nice to have: • Experience using civil estimating software (such as Expert Estimation, Benchmark, Candy, CostX, Cubit, Buildsoft, or similar) is highly regarded. • Experience estimating projects across roads, earthworks, drainage, subdivisions, or other civil infrastructure works. • Knowledge of Western Australian civil construction practices and supplier networks. • Experience working remotely with Australian construction businesses.