Metal Fabrication Estimator

🔥 2 hours ago

🇵🇭 Philippines – Remote

💵 NZ$2k - NZ$2.3k / month

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

✨ Estimator

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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 architectural, structural and fabrication drawings, specifications, schedules, revisions and tender documentation • Prepare digital take-offs and detailed, itemised estimates covering materials, cutting, folding, welding, machining, assembly, workshop labour, finishes, transport, site access, installation and subcontractors • Prepare complete tender documentation, including assumptions, qualifications, exclusions, clarifications and scope breakdowns • Assess buildability, installation methodology, access, sequencing, interfaces, site labour, logistics and programme constraints • Identify omissions, drawing conflicts, unclear requirements, procurement issues and commercial or margin risks before submission • Obtain, review and test supplier and subcontractor quotations against the required scope • Work with senior stakeholders on bid strategy, value engineering and alternative solutions • Maintain clear, auditable estimating workings and communicate progress, questions and uncertainty early • Support accurate handover from estimating into project delivery • Maintain cost libraries and pricing models, review estimate-to-actual outcomes, and improve digital, automated and AI-assisted estimating workflows • Take increasing ownership of larger and more complex tenders • Work closely with construction, fabrication and delivery professionals

🎯 Requirements

• Philippines-based candidate • Proven estimating experience in architectural metalwork, structural or miscellaneous steel, stainless steel, aluminium, sheet metal, specialist fabrication or similar subcontractor work • Proven ability to prepare complete, detailed and auditable estimates, not only take-offs, budgets or cost reports • Strong ability to interpret architectural, structural and fabrication drawings, specifications and revisions • Practical understanding of fabrication and installation, including cutting, folding, welding, machining, finishing, assembly, access, sequencing, labour and logistics • Strong commercial judgement and checking discipline, with the ability to identify scope gaps, buildability concerns and tender risks • Strong Excel skills • Excellent written and verbal English • Self-directed and accountable, with the ability to manage priorities, explain estimating logic and raise concerns early • Experience collaborating with project managers, designers, production teams, suppliers and subcontractors • Hands-on contractor or subcontractor estimating experience for fabrication and installation packages • Experience with Bluebeam Revu; PlanSwift, CostX, AutoCAD, Revit or ERP systems such as Ostendo is advantageous • Experience pricing work in New Zealand or Australian construction markets is preferred • Experience with commercial, infrastructure, corrections, high-security or data-centre projects is preferred • Interest in process automation, digital estimating and practical use of AI tools is preferred • Disclose any existing ongoing roles or client work • Reflect this engagement on LinkedIn profile

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote work from home • Employer of Record (EOR) employment arrangement • Work an 8-hour shift within the 7:00 AM–8:00 PM New Zealand time window, Monday to Friday