{"id":108026,"date":"2026-08-14T10:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T10:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/uncategorized\/estimating-analyst\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T10:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T10:41:06","slug":"estimating-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/jobs\/nairobi\/estimating-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimating Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\/\", \"@type\": \"JobPosting\", \"title\": \"Estimating Analyst\", \"description\": \"The Role\\nWe are expanding our estimating function and are looking for a technically strong Quantity Surveyor or Estimator to join our Nairobi team.\\nYou will work directly with our Senior Estimator in Ireland, who has over fifteen years' experience across residential, renewable energy and offsite construction. You will produce the measured, quantified foundation of every tender we submit: take-offs, bills of quantities, bills of materials, comparison schedules and tender documentation. The Senior Estimator then rates it, prices for risk and signs it off.\\nYou will own your own workstreams. The quality of your measurement determines the quality of the number we put in front of a client.\\nWhat You Will Be Doing\\nPreparing detailed quantity take-offs from architectural, structural, civil and electrical drawings\\nProducing and maintaining bills of quantities to NRM or SMM-based measurement conventions\\nAssembling bills of materials for solar PV and electrical packages, working from specifications and equipment datasheets\\nBuilding subcontractor and supplier comparison schedules, levelling quotations onto a common scope\\nMaintaining and updating our internal cost and rate libraries\\nCompiling tender documentation packs and supporting submission deadlines\\nCarrying out quantity checks and value engineering exercises on shortlisted options\\nFlagging drawing discrepancies, scope gaps and specification conflicts early\\nYou will be working on Irish and UK projects across three streams: residential housing schemes, solar PV and battery storage installations, and modular and offsite construction.\\nEssential\\nWhat We Are Looking For\\nDegree in Quantity Surveying, Building Economics, Construction Management or a closely related discipline\\nFour to eight years' post-qualification experience in estimating or quantity surveying with a contractor or cost consultancy\\nDemonstrable ability to produce a complete, defensible bill of quantities from drawings without supervision\\nConfident reading and interpreting technical drawings and specifications across disciplines\\nExcellent written English and clear, structured documentation habits\\nSoftware\\nWe measure digitally, model our costs in structured workbooks and are building automation into our estimating process. Strong tooling ability is central to how this job is done.\\nAdvanced Excel: structured cost models, lookup and reference functions, pivot tables, data validation, and the discipline to build a workbook another person can audit\\nDigital take-off software: CostX, Bluebeam Revu, Cubicost, PlanSwift or equivalent\\nCAD literacy: AutoCAD or similar, sufficient to navigate, measure from and interrogate drawing sets\\nAdvantageous: Power Query or Power BI, model-based measurement from Revit or Navisworks, SQL or Python for cost data work, and familiarity with AI-assisted document and drawing review tools\\nTell us in your application which tools you have used and what you have built with them.\\nHighly desirable\\nExperience on European projects, or with European clients, standards or supply chains\\nFamiliarity with UK or Irish measurement conventions and contract forms\\nBORAQS registration, or eligibility to register\\nExperience pricing electrical, M&E or renewable energy packages\\nExperience with modular, precast or offsite construction\\nHow You Work\\nOur Senior Estimator is available on a part-time basis, so the person in this role needs to be self-directed. You should be comfortable working from a written brief, batching your questions rather than escalating one at a time, documenting your assumptions clearly, and managing your own workload against fixed tender deadlines. If you need close daily supervision to be effective, this role will frustrate you.\\nNairobi is two to three hours ahead of Ireland, so you will have a full overlapping working day with the Irish team.\", \"datePosted\": \"2026-08-12\", \"hiringOrganization\": {\"@type\": \"Organization\", \"name\": \"Galetech Group\"}, \"jobLocation\": {\"@type\": \"Place\", \"address\": {\"@type\": \"PostalAddress\", \"addressLocality\": \"Nairobi\", \"addressCountry\": \"KE\"}}, \"directApply\": true, \"validThrough\": \"2026-08-26T23:59:59\", \"employmentType\": \"FULL_TIME\"}<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Company:<\/strong> Galetech Group<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Nairobi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Type:<\/strong> Full Time<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apply Before:<\/strong> 2026-08-26<\/p>\n<h3>Job Description<\/h3>\n<p>The Role<br \/>We are expanding our estimating function and are looking for a technically strong Quantity Surveyor or Estimator to join our Nairobi team.<br \/>You will work directly with our Senior Estimator in Ireland, who has over fifteen years&#8217; experience across residential, renewable energy and offsite construction. You will produce the measured, quantified foundation of every tender we submit: take-offs, bills of quantities, bills of materials, comparison schedules and tender documentation. The Senior Estimator then rates it, prices for risk and signs it off.<br \/>You will own your own workstreams. The quality of your measurement determines the quality of the number we put in front of a client.<br \/>What You Will Be Doing<br \/>Preparing detailed quantity take-offs from architectural, structural, civil and electrical drawings<br \/>Producing and maintaining bills of quantities to NRM or SMM-based measurement conventions<br \/>Assembling bills of materials for solar PV and electrical packages, working from specifications and equipment datasheets<br \/>Building subcontractor and supplier comparison schedules, levelling quotations onto a common scope<br \/>Maintaining and updating our internal cost and rate libraries<br \/>Compiling tender documentation packs and supporting submission deadlines<br \/>Carrying out quantity checks and value engineering exercises on shortlisted options<br \/>Flagging drawing discrepancies, scope gaps and specification conflicts early<br \/>You will be working on Irish and UK projects across three streams: residential housing schemes, solar PV and battery storage installations, and modular and offsite construction.<br \/>Essential<br \/>What We Are Looking For<br \/>Degree in Quantity Surveying, Building Economics, Construction Management or a closely related discipline<br \/>Four to eight years&#8217; post-qualification experience in estimating or quantity surveying with a contractor or cost consultancy<br \/>Demonstrable ability to produce a complete, defensible bill of quantities from drawings without supervision<br \/>Confident reading and interpreting technical drawings and specifications across disciplines<br \/>Excellent written English and clear, structured documentation habits<br \/>Software<br \/>We measure digitally, model our costs in structured workbooks and are building automation into our estimating process. Strong tooling ability is central to how this job is done.<br \/>Advanced Excel: structured cost models, lookup and reference functions, pivot tables, data validation, and the discipline to build a workbook another person can audit<br \/>Digital take-off software: CostX, Bluebeam Revu, Cubicost, PlanSwift or equivalent<br \/>CAD literacy: AutoCAD or similar, sufficient to navigate, measure from and interrogate drawing sets<br \/>Advantageous: Power Query or Power BI, model-based measurement from Revit or Navisworks, SQL or Python for cost data work, and familiarity with AI-assisted document and drawing review tools<br \/>Tell us in your application which tools you have used and what you have built with them.<br \/>Highly desirable<br \/>Experience on European projects, or with European clients, standards or supply chains<br \/>Familiarity with UK or Irish measurement conventions and contract forms<br \/>BORAQS registration, or eligibility to register<br \/>Experience pricing electrical, M&#038;E or renewable energy packages<br \/>Experience with modular, precast or offsite construction<br \/>How You Work<br \/>Our Senior Estimator is available on a part-time basis, so the person in this role needs to be self-directed. You should be comfortable working from a written brief, batching your questions rather than escalating one at a time, documenting your assumptions clearly, and managing your own workload against fixed tender deadlines. If you need close daily supervision to be effective, this role will frustrate you.<br \/>Nairobi is two to three hours ahead of Ireland, so you will have a full overlapping working day with the Irish team.<\/p>\n<h3>How to Apply<\/h3>\n<p>Interested and qualified? Go to Galetech Group on recruitment.cezannehr.com to apply<br \/>Build your CV for free. Download in different templates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjobmag.co.ke\/apply-now\/1304615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;padding:10px 20px;background:#2271b1;color:#fff;text-decoration:none;border-radius:4px;\">Apply Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Source: MyJobMag<\/small><\/p>\n<p><!-- job-expiry: 2026-08-26 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company: Galetech Group Location: Nairobi Job Type: Full Time Apply Before: 2026-08-26 Job Description The RoleWe are expanding our estimating function and are looking for a technically strong Quantity Surveyor or Estimator to join our Nairobi team.You will work directly with our Senior Estimator in Ireland, who has over fifteen years&#8217; experience across residential, renewable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1408,1409],"tags":[1425,2918,1413,1412],"class_list":["post-108026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs","category-nairobi","tag-full-time","tag-galetech-group","tag-job-listing","tag-myjobmag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}