APCM

Harmony Fire Ltd.; Yeovil; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Development plan

Unlimited holiday

Bonus up to 50%

Pension scheme

Cycle to work

Team events

Snacks & fruit

Job summary

Harmony Fire Ltd. in Yeovil is seeking an Assistant Pre-Construction Manager to support tendering, take-offs, and pricing submissions for building fabric and passive fire protection across the South West.

You will prepare method statements and programmes, gather pricing data from supply chain, maintain the pre-construction tracker, and help hand over projects to delivery teams, building knowledge of passive fire protection systems and compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience in a pre-construction, estimating, quantity surveying, or commercial support role within building fabric, passive fire, construction, or related discipline.
• Ability to carry out accurate take-offs and quantification from drawings and specifications.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills, comfortable with pricing data and tender documents.
• Highly organised with excellent attention to detail and deadline management.
• Good communication skills to liaise with clients, supply chain, and internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Support the Pre-Construction Manager in tender preparation, quotations and pricing submissions for building fabric and passive fire protection works across the South West portfolio.
• Carry out take-offs and material quantification from drawings, specifications, and survey information, ensuring accuracy at every stage.
• Assist in the preparation of method statements, programmes, and supporting documentation for tender submissions.
• Liaise with supply chain, subcontractors, and internal teams to gather pricing and technical information required to complete bids.
• Maintain and update the pre-construction tracker, ensuring all live enquiries, deadlines, and submission statuses are accurately recorded.
• Support site surveys and pre-construction visits, building your understanding of scope and specification requirements on the ground.
• Assist with the handover of won projects to the delivery team, ensuring all pre construction information is transferred accurately.
• Develop knowledge of passive fire protection systems, fire doors, firestopping, and the compliance framework that underpins our work.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of the pre-construction process — including templates, pricing tools, and submission quality.

Skills

A-player mindset

Pre-construction estimating

Take-offs & quantification

Numerical & analytical

Organised with detail

Communication skills

Full UK driving licence

Tools

Excel

Outlook

Word

Job description

Assistant Pre-Construction Manager

Department: Building Fabric - Pre-construction

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Yeovil

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Pre-Construction Manager in the preparation of tenders, quotations, and pricing submissions for building fabric and passive fire protection works across the South West portfolio.
• Carry out take-offs and material quantification from drawings, specifications, and survey information, ensuring accuracy at every stage.
• Assist in the preparation of method statements, programmes, and supporting documentation for tender submissions.
• Liaise with supply chain, subcontractors, and internal teams to gather pricing and technical information required to complete bids.
• Maintain and update the pre-construction tracker, ensuring all live enquiries, deadlines, and submission statuses are accurately recorded.
• Support site surveys and pre-construction visits, building your understanding of scope and specification requirements on the ground.
• Assist with the handover of won projects to the delivery team, ensuring all pre construction information is transferred accurately.
• Develop your knowledge of passive fire protection systems, fire doors, firestopping, and the compliance framework that underpins our work.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of the pre-construction process — including templates, pricing tools, and submission quality.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• An A-player mindset — high standards, extreme ownership and the drive to do things properly, the first time.
• Experience in a pre-construction, estimating, quantity surveying, or commercial support role within building fabric, passive fire, construction, or a closely related discipline.
• Ability to carry out accurate take-offs and quantification from drawings and specifications.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills — comfortable working with pricing data, cost summaries, and tender documents.
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail — able to manage multiple live bids simultaneously and meet submission deadlines without dropping the ball.
• Good communication skills — able to liaise professionally with clients, supply chain, and internal colleagues.
• Proficient in Microsoft 365 — particularly Excel, Outlook, and Word.
• Yeovil office-based or within commutable distance of the South West, and available full time.
• Full UK driving licence.

Job Benefits

This is a chance to build a pre-construction career at one of the UK’s fastest-growing fire safety specialists — working on a growing South West pipeline across fire doors, firestopping, and passive fire works, supported by an experienced Pre-Construction Manager, and developing the commercial and technical skills that will take your career forward. At Harmony, we ask a lot — and we give a lot back. The hours are real, the standards are high and the work is demanding, but for those who show up, deliver and go the extra mile, the rewards follow. A-players here enjoy a competitive salary, a Personal Development Plan with ongoing training and mentoring, unlimited holiday, a bonus scheme paying up to 50% of annual salary, enhanced maternity and paternity, lunch, snacks and refreshments on us every day (fresh fruit and Takeaway Friday included), a team social budget, cycle to work, an auto enrolment pension, two major company events a year and our Reward and Recognition scheme — including European mini-breaks for those who go above and beyond. It is a collaborative, high-energy environment focused on doing things the right way — and none of it is a perk for showing up; it’s what we share with the people pulling the business forward.

Harmony is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all applicants for employment regardless of age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief. We want everyone who works with us to feel valued and to make a difference.