Estimator, Contract Administrator

🔥 13 hours ago

🇵🇭 Philippines – Remote

💵 $1.8k - $2.5k / month

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🖥️ Administration

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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 invitations to quote, drawings, BOQs, specifications, geotechnical reports, survey information, programs and site photographs • Complete quantity take-offs and prepare detailed rate build-ups for plant, labour, trucks, materials, haulage, disposal, mobilisation, supervision, testing and other project costs • Develop clear scopes of work using appropriate civil and earthworks cost codes • Assess construction methodology, access, staging, cut-and-fill requirements, material reuse, disposal and likely production constraints • Identify scope gaps, inconsistencies and commercial risks, and prepare assumptions, clarifications, exclusions and departures • Apply margins, contingency and risk allowances according to the company’s commercial approach • Prepare subcontractor quotations and supporting tender correspondence • Maintain tender registers, pricing records, supplier/subcontractor quotations and version-controlled documentation • Prepare and administer purchase orders, subcontract documentation, progress claims, variations, extensions of time, notices, back-charges and final accounts • Maintain variation, cost-to-complete, committed-cost and project correspondence registers • Review builder directions and confirm commercial approval requirements before additional work proceeds • Track actual costs against approved estimates and flag margin, productivity, access or scope issues • Coordinate delivery dockets, timesheets, plant records, site diaries, photographs, test results and other supporting evidence • Assist with monthly claims, reconciliations, forecasting and project close-out • Support the site team with interpretation of priced scope, assumptions, exclusions, QA requirements and variation boundaries • Help maintain QA, safety, environmental and final handover documentation • Work with management, builders, suppliers, site supervisors and subcontractors to protect margins, clarify scope and control projects commercially from tender through final account

🎯 Requirements

• 3–5+ years’ relevant experience in civil estimating, earthworks estimating, contract administration or a closely related role • Demonstrated experience with civil construction, bulk earthworks, subdivisions, roadworks, industrial projects or similar • Ability to read and interpret civil, structural and architectural drawings, BOQs, specifications, geotechnical reports, survey information and site photographs • Strong understanding of earthworks methodology, including stripping, cut and fill, stockpiling, haulage, disposal, unsuitable material, rock, groundwater, backfill, compaction, proof rolling, pavements and site access • Ability to complete accurate quantity take-offs and build rates for plant, labour, trucks, materials, testing, mobilisation and disposal • Sound understanding of productivity, haul distances, plant utilisation, minimum charges, wet and dry hire and the commercial effect of site constraints • Ability to identify missing information and challenge unclear or incomplete scope rather than pricing unsupported assumptions • Experience preparing and managing variations, progress claims, notices, extensions of time, cost forecasts and final accounts • Strong Excel capability, including structured estimating workbooks, formulas, rate schedules and cost tracking • Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to produce clear commercial correspondence and explain pricing decisions • High attention to detail, reliable follow-through and disciplined document control • Practical understanding of safety, QA, environmental obligations and the records required to support claims and handover • Formal qualifications in quantity surveying, construction management, civil engineering, building, estimating or contract administration are nice-to-have • Familiarity with ClickUp, CRM/tender platforms, estimating software, document management systems and digital QA platforms is nice-to-have • Experience with Australian civil construction standards and specifications, including AS 3798-2007 and common earthworks testing requirements is nice-to-have • Working knowledge of subcontract conditions, security of payment legislation, payment schedules, notice provisions and extension-of-time processes is nice-to-have • Experience with civil take-off, scheduling, survey, project management or accounting software is nice-to-have • Exposure to procurement, supplier negotiations, plant hire, quarry materials, disposal facilities and subcontractor engagement is nice-to-have • Experience preparing tender handovers and translating commercial assumptions into practical site instructions is nice-to-have • Familiarity with environmental controls, erosion and sediment control, traffic interfaces and working around live services is nice-to-have • Existing relationships with civil contractors, builders, suppliers, quarries, cartage providers or testing laboratories is nice-to-have • Must disclose any existing ongoing roles or client work • Must reflect this engagement on LinkedIn as “Independent Contractor”

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote work from home • Flexible time management as an independent contractor, while aligning with AU business hours for collaboration