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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

• Prepare preliminary estimates from concept and design development drawings • Provide cost feedback to support design decisions • Identify cost risks such as site conditions and structural complexity • Assist with feasibility pricing for new projects and product development • Align design intent with budget • Prepare detailed Bills of Quantities (BOQs) • Complete take-offs from working drawings • Apply correct rates, inclusions, and specifications • Ensure estimates align with construction standards • Assist with tender preparation and contract pricing • Maintain consistency across estimates • Review and validate quantities and rates • Identify discrepancies in drawings and documentation • Ensure estimates reflect realistic construction costs • Work across multiple estimating platforms, including custom-built systems • Improve estimating workflows and systems • Maintain and update cost databases • Support integration with project management and workflow tools • Collaborate with onshore estimating and pre-construction teams • Communicate with designers and project stakeholders • Contribute to continuous improvement of estimating processes

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience in residential construction estimating • Experience in both sales estimating and production estimating • Strong understanding of Australian residential construction methods • Ability to read and interpret architectural and construction drawings • Strong attention to detail and accuracy • Experience preparing BOQs and completing take-offs • Ability to work independently in a remote support role • Experience with Australian builders preferred • Experience with DataBuild or similar estimating software preferred • Strong Excel capability preferred • Experience across multiple software platforms preferred • Exposure to custom or integrated estimating systems preferred • Experience with custom homes and volume housing preferred • Strong problem-solving ability preferred • Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines preferred • Strong communication skills preferred • Proactive mindset and ability to identify issues early preferred • Team-oriented approach preferred • Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel • Experience with project management platforms such as ClickUp or Buildertrend, or similar • Ability to learn and adapt to new or custom systems • Must disclose existing ongoing roles or client work • Must reflect this engagement on LinkedIn as “Independent Contractor”

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote work • Work from home • Flexible time management as an independent contractor • Work schedule aligned approximately to AU business hours (9 AM–5 PM, Monday to Friday)