Estimating Engineer

WasteRecruit Ltd; Tonbridge; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Death-in-service benefit

NEST pension

Job summary

WasteRecruit Ltd is assisting an environmental engineering company in Kent to recruit an Estimating Engineer. The role blends technical enquiry handling with commercial proposal development for wastewater, energy from waste, and related sectors.

You will collaborate with engineering specialists to translate customer requirements into accurate estimates and persuasive proposals, with hybrid or home-based working and occasional customer meetings.

Qualifications

• A minimum HNC-level qualification in a MEICA discipline, process engineering, chemical engineering or a related field.
• Experience in estimating, proposals, technical sales or another commercially focused engineering role.
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and specifications.
• Strong written communication and ability to prepare professional technical proposals.
• Confidence to communicate technically and commercially.
• Good Microsoft Office and general IT skills.
• Ability to work effectively within a small, collaborative technical business.

Responsibilities

• Receive and interpret customer enquiries, specifications and technical requirements.
• Work with internal specialists to develop appropriate engineered solutions.
• Prepare accurate project estimates using internal and supplier information.
• Produce clear, detailed technical and commercial proposals.
• Attend customer meetings both virtually and in person.
• Respond to technical questions and requests for further information.
• Provide technical sales support and help progress opportunities through to order.
• Work collaboratively across sales and engineering to ensure proposed solutions meet customer requirements.
• Keep up to date with relevant technologies, market developments and regulatory changes.

Skills

Engineering judgement

Customer communication

Office IT skills

Technical sales awareness

Education

HNC in MEICA/related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Location: Kent – hybrid working or home based/fully remote

Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience

Sector: Environmental Engineering / Wastewater / Energy from Waste

• Benefits: Private healthcare, death-in-service benefit and NEST pension

WasteRecruit is supporting an environmental engineering company with the recruitment of an Estimating Engineer to join its environmental engineering business in Kent.

This is a varied technical and commercial role for someone who enjoys getting underneath a customer requirement, developing the right engineering solution and turning that solution into an accurate, persuasive proposal.

Supplying specialist products, technologies and installation services into the wastewater, Energy from Waste, municipal waste and industrial sectors in the UK and internationally, this company already has a wide client base and solid track record.

This is considerably broader than simply producing prices from a specification. You will become involved early in customer enquiries, work alongside the other engineering specialists to develop technically compliant solutions and then take responsibility for estimating and presenting the commercial proposal.

The role

• Receive and interpret customer enquiries, specifications and technical requirements.
• Work with internal specialists to develop appropriate engineered solutions.
• Prepare accurate project estimates using internal and supplier information.
• Produce clear, detailed technical and commercial proposals.
• Attend customer meetings, both virtually and in person.
• Respond to technical questions and requests for further information.
• Provide technical sales support and help progress opportunities through to order.
• Work collaboratively across sales and engineering to ensure proposed solutions meet customer requirements.
• Keep up to date with relevant technologies, market developments and regulatory changes.

About you

We are looking for someone who combines good engineering judgement with the ability to communicate confidently with customers.

• A minimum HNC-level qualification in a MEICA discipline, process engineering, chemical engineering or a closely related field.
• Previous experience within estimating, proposals, technical sales or another commercially focused engineering role.
• The ability to read and interpret technical drawings and specifications.
• Strong written communication skills and the ability to prepare professional technical proposals.
• The confidence to communicate both technically and commercially.
• Good Microsoft Office and general IT skills.
• The ability to work effectively within a relatively small, collaborative technical business.

Knowledge of Energy from Waste, anaerobic digestion or odour-control systems would be particularly useful, although CSO will also consider candidates with strong transferable engineering experience.

Why consider this opportunity?

This role sits at the point where engineering, customer need and commercial decision-making meet.

You will have the opportunity to work across different technologies and applications rather than repeatedly estimating one narrow product, with direct exposure to customers, engineering specialists and live commercial opportunities.

For an engineer who wants to retain a strong technical element while developing greater customer and commercial responsibility, it offers an interesting next step.

The role is hybrid or home based, although regular attendance at the offices in Kent will be required in the early days of the role.