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Estimator

  • Location: Rotherham
  • Salary: £45k - 60k per year + Car, Pension, Holidays
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted 3 months ago

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.