Job Title: Commercial Trainee Estimator / Junior Sales Engineer
Location: High Wycombe
Salary: £15,000 per annum
Position: Full time at 40 hours per week and carries 23 days annual holiday excluding Bank Holidays.
Job Role:
The company is currently seeking a locally based, Trainee Estimator to work out of our busy Head office in High Wycombe, to provide accurate and efficient administrative support to the Commercial estimating team through interpreting scheme or drawings in order to provide a cost effective fenestration solution in a timely manner to secure an order from the client at a profitable margin.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities include:
- Assisting the Commercial estimating team in pricing the relevant quotes according to the customer/client’s requirements
- Reading the whole invitation document thoroughly including the specification, project particulars, drawings etc. to determine whether the quotation will be responded to; based on the agreed criteria
- Highlighting anything in the specification that requires precise action or any additional information required by the architect in order to continue
- Scheduling out all items to be priced; windows, doors, curtain wall etc.
- Determining which system would be most suited to use for pricing the project to include all items that have been previously scheduled
- Sending out supplier enquiries and chasing their quotations
- Making notes throughout all of the above processes for inclusion within the quotation return letter. Contacting any parties concerned to ensure that all contractors and/or clients are included in the quotation
- Upon successful return of the tender, diarising the critical dates to chase the client for a decision to determine whether the quotation was successful and if not, to determine the reasons and shortfall
- Inputting, reviewing and reporting effectively and thoroughly on the Company’s management systems.
Essential requirements for the role include:
- Excellent attention to detail
- High numeracy and computer literacy with an advanced experience and knowledge of Microsoft office
- Ability to work without supervision
- Excellent analytical and problem solving ability
- Strong organisational and planning skills
- Good communication skills
- Ability to work as a part of a team.
Desirable:
- Some administration experience would be preferable.
The person fulfilling this function should be detailed, conscientious, diplomatic and an amiable individual; showing high levels of persistence and accuracy in their work. A team worker who is friendly, accommodating, persistent, self-controlled, thorough, dependable and loyal.
If you would like to apply for either of these vacancies, please contact our Operations Director Rachel Braham on 01494 536000 or via email: r.braham@hazlemere.co.uk.
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