Joel Norman - Wisdom Series 2021: Joel Norman
Summary
This year, we are taking the opportunity to interview some of them, and get their thoughts and wisdom around this unique and challenging field. Working as a Project Manager, in quality assurance, tendering and estimating, Joel knows what’s what in Western Australia in particular. He’s been with Georgiou for the past 16 years, and we hit him up for the story of his time in our great western state (known to many as Westralia). Attention to detail; what seems like a small rate error when multiped by a massive quantity, it can result in a very big cost error… An estimator needs to be able to walk into a tender review and convince everyone in the room that they are across every item in the pricing schedule, have read every page of the specification, studied every drawing and deciphered every report… no mean feat. At the end of the day the company is trusting the Estimator that they have come up with the right price for the job based on a programme and methodology which has been agreed upon.