Electrical Estimator

Electrical Estimator

Working from a mixture of the Bristol offices (2-3 days per week) and from home, the successful candidate must possess demonstrable experience and technical electrical estimating expertise, up to and including 11kv.

Our client is one of the UK s leading is a multi-disciplinary contracting business, with the skills and expertise to deliver complex projects in highly regulated and hazardous environments across a number of different service lines, regional offices and business units.

The delivery of everything from straightforward solutions to highly complex energy infrastructure projects through an end-to-end approach, using innovation and collaboration and providing excellent value to clients are central to the company's mission, vision and values, and is seen as critical to the continued success of the business. Their staff are tirelessly dedicated to delivering the highest standards of project excellence for a wide and varied client base, which in turn ensures they continue to be a competitive force in the industry.

Overview

Due to continued expansion and the commitment to sustained and profitable growth, our client now wishes to appoint a highly motivated and industry experienced Electrical Estimator for their LV / HV division. Reporting to the Estimating Manager, the main purpose of this role will be to take responsibility for managing the development and production of highly competitive tenders and estimates for multiple or singular projects, ensuring maximum opportunity and minimum risk, and that clients and partners receive a high-quality service on time and to challenging budget requirements. The successful candidate will also contribute to all preconstruction activities, ensuring successful project acquisition and timely handover to operations. This role allows you the opportunity to work with high profile clients, and make it your own, as you will be involved in the early development stage of projects.

The Role

• Develop accurate estimates and manage bids for design and build projects, including large and more complex major schemes as well as ongoing long term framework contracts, ensuring that all client requirements and technical issues are fully considered
• Hold responsibility for option appraisals and identifying and applying alternative solutions to enhance bid profitability and the delivery of cost value engineering proposals
• Prioritise and manage your own workload, maintain accurate records of tenders submitted, whilst interfacing with other internal teams
• Ensure all tenders are completed with the objective of ensuring accuracy, best value and competitiveness of estimate and accommodation of the supply chain critical path

• Providing accurate take offs and maintaining a high level of competency when preparing prime cost estimates
• Developing Value Engineered Proposals and providing innovation where applicable
• Managing client and key stakeholder requests in a professional and timely manner

The Person

• We are looking for you to bring your ability to prepare electrical tenders and estimates from drawings, designs or BoQ s, and possess previous experience from LV to 11kv
• Possess strong commercial and business awareness to enable you to identify and recommend appropriate bid proposals that meet client needs
• Highly motivated and accurate, as attention to detail is vital, as is excellent numerical and IT skills
• Ideally offer a proven track record of securing works within the aforementioned sectors, and possess technical knowledge and broad scope expertise of the same
• Ideally possess the ability to evaluate design scope gaps on tenders

A highly attractive remuneration package is on offer for the successful candidate, coupled with career progression, along with challenging variety, security and longevity of work, given the company s leading industry status and their continued dedication to profitable growth.