We’re on the lookout for an Estimator to join our well established and respected client based in Loughborough on a full time, permanent basis.

Salary: £37,000 - £45,000 (depending on experience).

Hours: 07:45 – 16:45 Monday – Thursday and 07:45 – 14:15 on Friday.

The Role:

As an Estimator, you will be responsible for building and maintaining professional relationships with our clients’ key customers by receiving new enquiries, estimating and converting orders into manufacturing packages for Project Managers. You will relay all aspects in the quotations and clearly define in a hand over to the Project Managers.

Key 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.

Essential Requirements:

• Proactive and highly organised, with strong time management and planning skills, meticulous attention to detail and a proven ability to multi-task.
• Ability to carry out responsibilities with minimal supervision and thrive both on own initiative and as part of a team.
• Understanding of structural, secondary, and architectural steelwork.
• Experience in a similar role.
• Ability to read Technical/architectural drawings.
• Understanding of building law and regulations, contract law and health & safety law.
• Good communication and negotiating skills

If you are looking for the next step in your career with a well-established and respected local company, then apply for this role now!

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