Senior Estimator, Quantity Surveyor

🔥 9 hours ago

🇵🇭 Philippines – Remote

💵 A$2k - A$2.5k / month

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

✨ Quantity Surveyor

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📋 Description

• Prepare accurate quantity take-offs and trade-by-trade estimates from architectural, interior design, structural and joinery drawings and specifications • Build RFQ packages with scope markups, site photos and product information • Send RFQs to subcontractors and suppliers, follow up, compare quotations and build estimates from returned pricing • Price high-end finishes including custom joinery, natural stone, large-format tiling, wet areas, cladding and premium fixtures • Identify documentation gaps, inconsistencies, cost risks, provisional sums, exclusions and value engineering opportunities • Raise Requests for Information where needed • Cross-check every estimate through Claude • Revise estimates based on Directors’ on-site review and feedback • Lead internal pricing meetings with Directors • Email clients about pricing questions when required and review client meeting transcripts for pricing changes • Build signed jobs in Buildertrend, including master budgets, cost codes and purchase orders • Organise trade markups and hand over cost breakdowns, risk items and allowance schedules • Price variations within 24 hours and manage Buildertrend Change Orders • Re-price client upgrades and downgrades • Check actual variation costs against cost codes • Track costs against budgets and update fortnightly forecasts to complete with the Project Director and Accounts Manager • Maintain the materials, labour and trade rate library • Load final estimates into Claude to improve early design estimates • Manage the quoting pipeline, deadlines, follow-ups and next actions • Deliver accurate estimates, cost plans, quotations, cost tracking, variation pricing, budget reporting and pricing records

🎯 Requirements

• Filipino (Philippines-based) candidates • At least five years of estimating and quantity surveying experience working with Australian residential builders, including high-end renovations • Sound knowledge of Perth and Western Australian trade, supplier and material pricing • Experience pricing custom joinery, natural stone, large-format tiling, wet areas, cladding and premium fixtures • Proficiency in digital take-off software such as Cubit, Buildxact, Databuild, Bluebeam or similar • Strong knowledge of the National Construction Code (NCC), Australian Standards, trade scopes and construction sequencing • Advanced Excel skills • Clear written and spoken English • Confidence communicating with clients by email, designers, suppliers and subcontractors • Strong organisational skills and a proactive approach to managing competing deadlines • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while collaborating effectively with a small team • Experience using Buildertrend, including estimates, purchase orders and Change Orders (highly regarded) • Experience using AI tools such as Claude in estimating (highly regarded) • Experience in variation pricing, job costing and cost-to-complete forecasting (highly regarded) • Familiarity with HIA contracts and a design-and-construct environment (highly regarded) • Experience using Xero (highly regarded) • Must disclose any existing ongoing roles or client work • Must reflect this engagement on LinkedIn as “Independent Contractor”

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote work from home • Independent contractor engagement • Work schedule aligned with Perth business hours / Manila time zone

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