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Location: Waltham Abbey, Essex
Company Salary: £50,000 - £65,000 per annum
Estimator
Location:
Waltham Abbey, Essex
Hours:
8am – 5pm, Monday – Friday
Salary:
Up to £65,000 depending on experience.
Holiday:
20 Days plus 8 Bank Holidays.
Sector:
Construction, Roofing
Our client is a specialist contractor in hard metal roofing, cladding, and façade systems, delivering bespoke solutions for both commercial and residential projects across the UK and internationally. They provide a full end-to-end service from design and fabrication through to installation, working with high-quality materials and offering tailored solutions for projects ranging from simple structures to complex, large-scale developments. With a strong reputation for quality, safety, and technical expertise, our client combines industry experience with a customer-focused approach to consistently deliver high-standard, sustainable roofing solutions.
Due to continued company growth, they are looking to recruit an experienced estimator for their pre-construction team. You’ll be pulling together scopes of work, providing value engineering and quote gathering to streamline and control the pre-construction processes.
Position Duties
- Preparing tender submissions and carrying out take-offs from construction drawings
- Interpreting drawings and understanding specifications
- Using Excel to a high standard
- Completing accurate quantity take-offs from drawings (experience in Bluebeam estimating software considered beneficial)
- Calculating project rates, including labour, materials, and preliminary costs
- Completing client bills of quantities and pricing documents
- Producing scope-marked drawings using Bluebeam
- Attending project handover meetings with surveying, design, and management teams for secured work
- Maintaining detailed and accurate records of tender submissions, queries, and RFIs
- Demonstrating strong knowledge of over-18m non-combustible cladding systems and fire barrier requirements
- Presenting professionally with strong telephone communication skills
- Preparing tender bids and compiling information from incoming enquiries
- Meeting clients on-site to discuss requirements and negotiate pricing
- Working on projects ranging in value from £200k to £4M+
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with key clients
- Researching and sourcing costs for materials, labour, and equipment
- Supporting the document controller in obtaining subcontractor and supplier quotations
- Assisting with the preparation of technical submittals for awarded projects
- Providing support to the design team where required on secured projects
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Position Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years’ estimating experience in flat roofing systems is preferred, including but not limited to:
- Manufacturers such as Bauder, Radmat, IKO, Axter, and Kemper
- Inverted hot melt systems, including ballasted, paved, green, and blue roofs
- Single ply warm roof systems
- Tapered insulation schemes
- Three-layer felt warm roofs
- Cold-applied liquid systems
- A minimum of 5 years’ estimating experience in rainscreen cladding is preferred, including but not limited to:
- SFS lightweight framing systems (e.g. Metsec, EOS)
- CWCT-compliant aluminium rainscreen cladding systems
- Cavity barriers and fire stopping systems
- In depth understanding of U-value targets and associated calculations.
- Strong IT skills, particularly in Excel, Word, Outlook, and Bluebeam.
- Willingness and ability to travel to the office in Waltham Abbey.
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Position Remuneration
- Salary up to £65,000 depending on experience
- Regular office hours 8am – 5pm, Monday – Friday
- Christmas Shut down
- Company pension scheme
- Joining a friendly office team, where bespoke design and high-quality customer journey is the standard
This is a great opportunity to join a growing business and where everyone on the team is driven to succeed.
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