Senior Residential Estimator

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🔥 29 minutes ago

🇵🇭 Philippines – Remote

💵 ₱100k - ₱120k / month

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

✨ Estimator

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Offshore 24/7

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🤝 B2B

🎯 Recruiter

B2B • Recruitment

Offshore 24/7 is an Australian-focused offshore staffing provider that helps Australian businesses build dedicated remote teams in the Philippines. The company places and manages Philippines-based professionals across a wide range of roles — from virtual assistants, bookkeepers, and paralegals to IT specialists, engineers, and customer support — offering fully managed onboarding, HR, payroll, and ongoing support. Offshore 24/7 emphasizes cost savings (up to ~70%), cultural and communication alignment for Australian clients, a five-stage vetting process, and local points of contact with offices in the Philippines (Clark Freeport Zone) and Australia (Melbourne). The firm targets Australian SMEs and enterprises across many industries and promotes free strategy sessions and a managed staffing solution.

📋 Description

• Own residential estimates from drawing review through tender and construction handover • Prepare quantity take-offs, material calculations, BOQs and detailed trade-based cost plans from architectural, structural and engineering drawings • Identify missing scope, drawing discrepancies and cost risks • Document assumptions, exclusions and allowances where information is incomplete • Prepare trade scopes and RFQs • Obtain subcontractor and supplier pricing, compare quotes like-for-like and negotiate where required • Check trade pricing against quantities, historical rates and current market pricing • Manage tender pricing, margins, contingencies, preliminaries, variations and value-engineering opportunities • Convert approved estimates into purchase orders and trade packages • Support subcontract agreements, progress claims and cost reporting • Maintain estimating records, drawing revisions, pricing information, rate books and traceability from estimate through final project cost • Raise RFIs or assumptions instead of guessing when documentation is incomplete • Work directly with an Australian custom-home builder and increasingly own the estimating and pre-construction function

🎯 Requirements

• Around 5+ years of construction estimating experience, including strong recent experience estimating Australian residential construction • Proven ability to independently estimate from architectural and structural drawing sets • Strong practical knowledge of residential construction, quantities, materials, waste allowances, labour and trade scopes • Experience with subcontractor/supplier RFQs, quote comparisons, negotiations and trade letting • Commercial judgement, including margins, preliminaries, contingencies, allowances and missing-scope cost implications • Experience with purchase orders, variations and contract/cost administration • Strong Excel skills • Hands-on experience with estimating/take-off software such as Bluebeam, CostX, PlanSwift, Cubit, Buildxact, Wunderbuild or similar • Strong English communication and confidence dealing directly with Australian construction staff, subcontractors and suppliers • Ability to work independently from home, follow up outstanding items and maintain proper documentation • Experience with Australian custom homes, NSW residential construction, BASIX, BAL and DA/CDC/CC documentation, or Wunderbuild highly regarded • Shortlisted candidates must complete a practical residential estimating exercise

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% work from home • Complete WFH equipment provided • HMO from Day 1 • 20 days paid leave per year — 15 annual + 5 sick leave, accruing from Day 1 • 13th month pay • Government-mandated benefits • Annual salary and performance review • Monday to Friday, Australian day shift • Permanent full-time employment • Ongoing training and professional development • Long-term opportunity to take greater ownership of the estimating and pre-construction function