Job Title: Estimator
Location: South Yorkshire
Salary: Up to £60,000 + Car
Reports To: General Manager/Operations Manager/Estimating Manager
Purpose of the Role:
- • To win profitable work.
- • To ensure that risks and opportunities are identified during the bid and managed.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Operations:
- • Review tenders with contract staff to determine the most efficient methods.
- • Liaise with designers to optimize the engineering solution.
- • Complete risk analysis, identifying high risks/concerns to senior management.
Customer:
- • Understand and deliver the client’s requirements.
- • Develop long-lasting relationships with clients to encourage repeat business opportunities.
- • Support the branch in winning work.
- • Take an active role in maintaining the CRM system.
- • Promote cross and joint selling across all branches.
People:
- • Support team members.
- • Uphold and safeguard the organization’s values and philosophy related to ethics, integrity, corporate, and social responsibility.
- • Engage in Continuous Professional Development.
- • Work to and actively embed the companys values.
- • Comply with Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in accordance with FREDIE principles.
Finance:
- • Maintain a risk-based approach to tendering.
- • Seek to maximize margins on bids by negotiating with clients and suppliers.
Experience/Skills/Qualifications/Personal Attributes
Minimum:
- • CSCS Card holder.
- • Experience as a geotechnical specialist.
- • Technical knowledge of a range of geotechnical products and solutions.
- • IT literate (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
- Full UK Driving License.
- Experience with specialist foundations & ground engineering
Desirable:
- • Degree in Civil Engineering/Geology or related field.
- • Experience with large infrastructure projects.
- • Working towards chartership of a related professional body.
Personal Attributes:
- • Enthusiasm to progress within a small dedicated team in a larger specialist ground engineering company.
- • Flexibility to perform duties beyond the normal remit for the team’s interests.
- • Good communication skills.
- • Ability to work as a team player and independently.
- • Outgoing and friendly.
- • Ability to meet deadlines.