Your new company is a friendly, trustworthy, and award-winning family-run general building contractor based in West Sussex. As a main contractor, they deliver projects with a value from £8000 up to £8million for local customers in the West Sussex area. A typical project's value would be from £350k-£500 and include extensions and refurbishments of existing properties in the mostly high-end residential market, but also commercial and educational buildings. They have a well-established list of customers and specialise in traditional and heritage construction methods. They are an SME with a turnover of £5 million, 20 direct staff and a contract team of 6. Last year they were awarded Gold Level accreditation for the second time by investors in people.
Your new role will be reporting to the Directors and working alongside two other estimators, but you will need to work independently to take enquiries and convert them into secured contracts with start dates. You will engage with customers to take their brief and be able to create successful bids based on traditional methods of estimation from drawings and the received brief. Once the contract is awarded, you would need to track the monthly valuations, variations, report on the running costs and support the site managers with completing their projects on time and within budget.
What you'll need to succeed is a proven history in the UK in a similar role as a construction ...