Job Title : ESTIMATOR
Reporting to: Business Development Manager
Location: Bedford
Salary: £45,000 - £65,000 (DOE)
Summary of Responsibilities:
Ensuring tender bids are processed, completed & returned in a complete & accurate manner, within the
timeframe requested by the client.
Key Responsibilities: (not intended to be exclusive or exhaustive)
Ideal candidate
The ideal candidate will have previous experience in estimating, ideally from an architectural or structural
steel background (minimum 5 years), along with the following;
- Experience in preparing tenders and take-offs from construction drawings.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to build relationships.
- Excellent IT and computer skills, predominantly Microsoft Office suite.
- Professional telephone skills.
- A smart appearance.
- Ability to work well under pressure.
- Ability to work well as part of a small team and also under your initiative when required.
- Well organised with excellent time management.
- Ability to work on a variety of projects simultaneously.
- A valid UK Driving license.
Responsibility & Duties
- Review drawings & Tender information
- Establish if the project is appropriate for the business.
- Record and log tender information.
- Collate information from enquiries received and prepare tender bids.
- Check through tender documents to ensure proposed contract terms are acceptable to the business
- Preparing accurate take-offs of all applicable work from drawings. (Manually or using take off software).
- Liaise with internal departments to understand and interpret tender requirements.
- Obtaining material prices from suppliers based on contract specifications.
- Produce cost sheets for all items of work.
- Produce cost breakdowns/ summary.
- Produce a job cost budget for the project.
- Produce a written quotation.
- Attending client meetings.
- Developing relationships with key clients.
- Attend post tender meetings with clients.
- Negotiate final tender sum with clients.
- Check through PSI (Project specific instruction) & Contract documents to ensure contract information &
terms reflect the tender documents & remain acceptable to the business.
- Allocate contract number and update sales ledgers.
- Review position statement.
- Preparing handover documents for the projects team.
- Keeping all records and database up to date.
- Arrange and chair project handover meeting.
- Attend client pre start meeting.
Personal Performance
- Must represent the best interests of the company at all times in a professional and positive manner.
- Achieve all operational and client service targets
- A good team player that will make a positive contribution to the commercial team and maintain an
effective/positive relationship with wider team.
- Demonstrate clear initiative, creativity, and the ability to develop solutions to satisfy customer
requirements.
- Must function effectively as a team player with all company personnel maintaining clear and factual
communication at all times.
- Must be flexible in relation to working hours to ensure client deadlines are achieved - providing that
management requests are reasonable