Location: Bristol

Duration: Permanent

Start Date: Immediate

Salary: £30,000 to £40,000 Depending on Experience

Job Description

Our client, based in Bristol, is now seeking a Technical Estimator. They specialize in marketing fire safety ventilation products to the UK construction industry. Their primary product range includes fire dampers and smoke control dampers along with control systems.

They are now seeking a highly motivated Technical Estimator to join their team! As long as you have estimating experience with a technical product to start as your foundation, they will provide full training and support to further your understanding and knowledge of their niche market. 

Essential:

• Have excellent attention to detail and take responsibility for the accuracy of your work.
• Have a personable and confident telephone manner. Once you have found your feet, you will become one of the first points of contact for our clients looking to work with us.
• Having a good working knowledge of Excel and Adobe, most of your work will be on these platforms.
• Continually strive to improve the quality and productivity of your work. As a small and relatively new company, we encourage insights into how we could improve the way we work too.
• Be a problem solver, you will take the initiative to collaborate with your colleagues and wider team to overcome obstacles.
• Be contractually aware.
• Able to work in a quiet but focused, busy office.
• Not afraid to ask questions! We work in fire safety; we cannot afford to make mistakes so we will encourage you to ask as many questions as you need. You will need to contact our clients to ask them questions too.
• Be a team player, as cliché as it sounds, we are a small team and cover all areas of the business between us, so we need to be able to work together effectively.
• Understand the moral duty of the work that we carry out – fire safety is extremely important.
• Be honest and trustworthy; you will make a big impact on the culture of our business.
• Want to work for a business that you can feel passionate about?

Responsibilities:

• Communicating with clients on a day-to-day basis via email and telephone.
• Assessing information/documentation provided to us by our clients and determining whether we can make compliant product selections. We may need additional information or clarification on the information provided, for which we will need to ask clients.
• Adding customer data to our schedule template to make selections against, providing relevant classifications and pricing. Subsequently raising a quote and issuing to customers.
• Be detail orientated and take pride in your work.
• Building and maintaining relationships with key clients.
• Preparing technical submissions for projects.
• Working alongside our current Estimators to manage the workload and ensure all projects have coverage.

Desirable:

• Have previous estimating experience in a similar role, ideally with an engineering or construction background.
• Have experience of reading specifications and tender documentation.
• Have previous knowledge or experience of fire dampers, smoke control dampers and/or control panels.

What are we offering:

• Competitive salary plus annual bonus linked to company and personal performance
• 25 holidays plus bank holidays
• Matched pension contributions up to 6% 
• Open and supportive working environment
• Opportunity for formal training and qualifications
• Opportunities to visit our factory in the Czech Republic
• Great office location in Aztec West
• Company laptop
• Free parking
• Working for a company that rewards commitment and performance
• Being actively encouraged to contribute to the business

Contact:

For more information, call us at +44 (0)1256 817878. To apply for this vacancy, contact Jorge Harrow at jharrow@roberthurstltd.co.uk or complete the application form below, and we will contact you.