We are looking for an Estimator to join a young, growing contracting business from their head office near Newbury.

They were established 10 years ago by a group of experienced tier 1 professionals and are set up and managed with tier 1 professionalism alongside independent agility. They turnover in excess of 40 million and target schemes between 1 and 10 million and have achievable turnover and profit targets for the next 5 years. They have a healthy mix of clients from private developers to local authorities and health care trusts and a significant amount is repeat negotiated work alongside regional and local opportunities and competitive tendering for specific targeted projects in the residential, social housing, education and care marketplaces.

The role is to join an existing preconstruction team and work on single stage and negotiated tenders.

Traditional duties will include identification of clients/projects, cost analysis, production of bills of quantities, liaison with architects and engineers, sending out and dealing with tender enquiries, dealing with existing supply chain and interviewing and appraisal of new contractors to help and work with the delivery teams, identify cost and programme savings. Experience of doing your own take offs and using Conquest software packages would be an advantage.

You will be part of a wider precon department and be expected to work with the existing bid manager, design team, commercial and delivery teams to build and implement best practice procedures to drive the business forward.

The role will be based from the offices near Newbury and they do operate a hybrid working policy which is based on the needs and priorities of the business from a week to week basis as agreed with the senior management team.

They are looking for agile, commercially minded people who want to use their experience and be creative and adventurous in the estimating world and want people to challenge the norms and be able to come up with new, alternative methods and give them a competitive edge over their competitors. The role is to join as an Estimator and increase workload turnover and profitability with the long term plan to build and grow the team and you will take the lead and recruit, train and manage your own team in the future.

They are a great business to join with turnover secured through til 2025 and have ambitious growth plans in a number of different areas and markets and this is a real opportunity to to something unique so get in touch today for more details.

Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

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