Electrical Estimator

EA First; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

24 days annual leave

Pension

Private Healthcare

Free parking

Job summary

EA First is seeking an Electrical Estimator near Cambridge with experience using Trimble to support a busy, growing team. You will assess working times, materials, and entry into tenders while coordinating with suppliers and subcontractors.

The role involves creating detailed quotations, negotiating costs, tracking tenders, and supervising a junior teammate. Strong Excel skills and IT proficiency are essential for efficient workflows.

Qualifications

• Electrical estimating experience including high value tenders.
• Experience using Trimble for estimating and project planning.
• Business development or client generation experience is a plus.
• Strong IT skills, especially Excel and data handling.

Responsibilities

• Identify new tender opportunities and drive enquiry generation.
• Maintain customer and subcontractor databases.
• Review initial enquiry documentation to shape estimates.
• Prepare and file estimation documents both digitally and physically.

Skills

Electrical estimating

Trimble experience

Business development

Excel

Negotiation

Tender management

Tools

Trimble software

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Are you an Electrical Estimator with experience of using Trimble?

We're pleased to share details of this excellent opportunity for an Electrical Estimator to join a busy and growing business, based near Cambridge.

If you're used to working on high value projects and several concurrent tenders, always ensuring deadlines are met, along with experience of site installation and have enough electrical knowledge to assess working times and materials to complete all types of project tenders - we'd love to hear from you!

In this varied role, you'll be doing:

• Identifying new opportunities to grow the business and generating new tender enquiries
• Maintain the customer and sub-contractor database
• Review initial enquiry documentation
• Provide estimation documents and prepare estimate filing both electronically and in paper form
• Send out, track and receive specialist subcontract package enquiries
• Production of detailed quotations considering material and labour resource
• Negotiate costs, discount structures and purchasing quotations with suppliers & sub-contractors prior to tender stage
• Recording all new enquiries in the database
• Customer communication throughout the tender process
• Supervising one member of the team
• Carry out Value Engineering on project tenders

You must have electrical estimating experience along with experience using Trimble. In addition, business development/client generation experience would be ideal.

You’ll be confident using your initiative and working in an organised and efficient way, along with good communication and negotiation skills. You’ll also need good IT skills particularly with Microsoft Excel.

On offer is a very competitive salary, good benefits, free parking and the opportunity to join a growing business where there's opportunity for the role to evolve, over time.

• 24 days annual leave, Pension & Private Healthcare.
• free parking.

Location:

Near Cambridge

Hours:

Monday-Friday 7:30am-4:30pm

Very competitive salary on offer

Permanent vacancy.