Senior Estimator

🕒 June 25

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Pear Tree.

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1 - 10 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Pear Tree is a Melbourne‑born offshore recruitment and hiring services company that connects Australian, US, and UK businesses directly with skilled offshore professionals (primarily from the Philippines) without agency markups. They provide end-to-end hiring support — sourcing, screening, skills assessments, video interviews, reference checks — and offer payroll, Employer‑of‑Record, and compliance assistance plus a six‑month replacement guarantee. Pear Tree recruits across IT, sales & marketing, finance, creative, admin and operations roles, emphasizing cost savings, direct pay to talent, and secure onboarding workflows.

📋 Description

• Independently lead complex tenders with a high degree of accuracy across full building scope. • Prepare detailed construction-level estimates across all trades including structural, architectural, civil, services, preliminaries, and site works. • Complete accurate quantity take-offs and trade breakdowns from construction documentation, BIM models, and drawings. • Develop clear scopes of work, assumptions registers, exclusions, methodology notes, and tender clarifications. • Identify scope gaps, missing information, trade interfaces, and buildability risks during the estimating process. • Clearly delineate scope between factory-manufactured and site-based activities. • Build and structure estimates within CostX including workbook setup, dimension groups, model mapping, and rate build-ups. • Interpret technical specifications, tender documents, and construction drawings aligned with Australian construction standards and NCC requirements. • Work collaboratively with Sales, Design, Manufacturing, and Construction teams to develop commercially viable submissions. • Engage subcontractors and suppliers to validate pricing and scope coverage. • Provide structured estimate handovers to operational delivery teams.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 5+ years of relevant construction estimating experience within commercial, modular, or head contractor environments. • Proven experience independently delivering detailed full-building estimates across all major trades. • Advanced CostX proficiency including: • workbook setup, • dimension group structuring, • model mapping, • rate build-ups, • estimate template creation, • and first-principles estimating. • Strong understanding of Australian construction methodologies, NCC requirements, trade sequencing, and buildability principles. • Ability to independently assess incomplete documentation and determine required scope inclusions. • Strong site-based construction experience with practical understanding of construction delivery, subcontractor coordination, and methodology. • Demonstrated structured estimating methodology with strong attention to scope completeness and documentation quality. • Confident communicator who proactively engages subcontractors, suppliers, and internal stakeholders. • Strong Autodesk Revit and drawing interpretation capability. • Tertiary qualification in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, or related discipline.