Estimator

Inspire Resourcing Ltd; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency seeks an Estimator for a leading business in Chesterfield, East Midlands. The role involves evaluating tenders, estimating prices, and managing bids while ensuring client satisfaction. Candidates should have commercial experience in Civil Engineering or Construction, complemented by strong interpersonal skills. This position offers a competitive salary of around £40k depending on experience.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in estimating within the Civil Engineering or Construction sector.
• Strong interpersonal skills for effective communication with clients and teams.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate tender opportunities to ensure alignment with business capabilities.
• Estimate tender prices accurately.
• Manage bids, including writing and preparation.
• Handle client queries and meet tender deadlines.
• Collaborate with finance and operations to ensure cost accuracy.
• Implement continual improvements to reduce costs.
• Facilitate clear handovers to operations.
• Communicate key assumptions to the commercial department.

Skills

Commercial experience in Civil Engineering / Construction

Excellent interpersonal skills

Job description

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.

• 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