Job Title: Mechanical Estimator

Location: Derbyshire

Salary: £45,000 - £65,000

Hours of Work: Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm

Type: Full Time Permanent

Start Date: Immediately (flexible for notice periods)

Duties

• Ability to use Excel is a must as our Estimating package is centred around an in-house developed Excel system although other software packages may be considered moving forwards.
• Send out enquiries to suppliers & subcontractors to assist with pricing.
• Send out TQ’s to Main Contractors / Clients and monitor responses for incorporation into tenders where ambiguities fall between the drawings and specifications provided.
• Take off services from drawings and provided equipment schedules where predesigned and send out to the marketplace for pricing.
• Provide tender logs and follow up via the Main Contractors & End User Clients for feedback on status and report to senior management on a regular basis as required.
• Some front end survey work would occasionally be required to facilitate initial costings.
• A knowledge / understanding of SBEM, Thermal Models, SAP, BRUKL and BREEAM targets to facilitate pulling tenders together is a pre-requisite however not the actual software use.
• Clear, precise and articulate Tender letter & Contractors Proposal writing is a must complete with clear & unambiguous qualifications.
• Internal meetings with the Company Directors for commercial settlement of bids would be required to review scope and commercial aspects prior to tender submission
• The successful candidate should have good commercial awareness, be able to satisfy a tender brief however at the same time be able to offer innovation and some added Value Engineering options in order to provide some betterment to our tenders over our competitors.
• The successful candidate would be required to attend both mid-tender and post tender client meetings to review scope and costings and occasionally be part of more formal tender presentations (as part of a WB Team)

Skills and experience

• BTEC Building Services HNC
• Minimum 5 GCSE passes - Maths A is required
• Estimating Software Training
• Experience in a similar estimating role

What the client offers

The package we are offering would depend on the experience and ability of the candidate however a decision around a company car and other benefits would be made at the interview stage. As a minimum the successful candidate would receive a company pension and company healthcare.

About the Client

Our client is still very much a family run Mechanical Services business and one which operates with high moral and ethical values and a working ethos centred around traditional values but equally balanced with some of the highest technology, innovation and working practices in the industry invoking repeat business from our clients predominately in the Design & Build sector of the Building Services Industry.

Next Steps:

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About Regional Recruitment Services – A Recruitment Agency in Leicester

This position is advertised by Regional Recruitment Services Ltd, an award-winning independent recruitment agency that has been operating since 2008. We offer permanent, temporary and contract jobs within the Commercial, Construction, Industrial and Engineering sectors. To view all of our positions available throughout the United Kingdom, please visit our website (regionalrecruitment.co.uk).