Estimator

Inspire Resourcing Ltd; Chesterfield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A market-leading recruitment firm is looking for an Estimator to join a well-established business in Chesterfield. The role involves ensuring tender opportunities align with business capabilities, preparing accurate estimates, and managing client interactions. Candidates should possess prior commercial experience in Civil Engineering or Construction and excellent interpersonal skills. This opportunity offers a salary of circa £40k depending on experience, along with avenues for career growth.

Qualifications

• Previous commercial experience in Civil Engineering / Construction experience.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Evaluation of tender opportunities to ensure they fit with business capabilities.
• Estimating tender prices.
• Bid writing and preparation.
• Tender and client management including timely response to client queries.
• Working closely with finance and operations teams to develop processes for accurate estimates.
• Seeking feedback on job performance.
• Identifying and implementing continual improvements to reduce cost.
• Ensuring full handovers to operations teams.
• Communicating key tender assumptions to the commercial department.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Commercial experience in Civil Engineering

Job description

Overview

Estimator. Inspire Resourcing are recruiting an Estimator on behalf of our client in Chesterfield. This is a great opportunity to join a market leading & well established business with career development opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Evaluation of tender opportunities to ensure they fit with business capabilities, business model and risk profile.
• Estimating tender prices.
• Bid writing and preparation.
• Tender and client management including timely response to client queries and adherence to tender deadlines.
• Working closely with finance and operations teams to develop and maintain processes for accurate estimates of costs.
• Pro-actively seek feedback on job performance to inform future estimating.
• Identifying and implementing continual improvements to reduce cost for both the client and company.
• Ensuring full and sufficient handovers to operations teams are made.
• Ensuring key tender assumptions/attendances are communicated to the commercial department and included in draft contracts.

Requirements

• Previous commercial experience in Civil Engineering / Construction experience
• Excellent interpersonal skills

Circa £40k DOE