Estimator

Job Title: Estimator

Location: Loughborough

Salary: £35k - £45k

Job Type: Full Time / Permanent

The Role

To receive enquiries, estimate and convert orders into manufacturing packages for fabrication. Relay all aspects in quotation and clearly define in a hand over to the Contract Manager. Build ongoing professional relationships with key customers.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Read technical tender drawings.

• Extract and price materials.

• Proactively interact with other members of the team to produce competitive bids.

• Using practical knowledge put times to costing materials, labour, site operations including plant to complete comprehensive take-off and tender submission.

• Establish supply chain costs to be included in tenders.

• Generate quotation documents and send to clients.

• Liaise with customers, identifying and securing business opportunities from both existing and new clients.

• Negotiate and complete tenders to sales.

• Build up a consistent system of market prices

• Provide a timely response and an exceptional level of service to all enquiries.

• Follow up initial submission with client feedback.

• Upon tender award, set up and present to a handover meeting with Contracts team.

The Candidate

• Solid understanding of structural, secondary, and architectural steelwork

• Minimum 3 years' experience in a similar role

• Ability to read Technical/architectural drawings.

• Understanding of building law and regulations, contract law and health & safety law.

• High attention to detail

• Excellent financial and numerical skills and sound commercial awareness

• Excellent IT skills

• Good communication and negotiating skills

• Excellent time management and organisation skills.

• Familiar with CRM (desirable)

• Full UK driving licence (desirable)