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Job Description

Our client who are based in Bristol are now looking for a Technical Estimator. They specialize in marketing fire safety ventilation products to the UK construction industry with the primary product range of Fire Dampers and Smoke Control Dampers along with their Control Systems. They are now looking for a highly motivated Technical Estimator to join their team! As long as you have estimating experience with a technical product to start as your foundation, they will provide full training and support to provide further understanding and knowledge for their niche market.

Essential:

* Have excellent attention to detail and take responsibility for the accuracy of your work.

* Have a personable and confident telephone manner, as you will become one of the first points of contact for our clients looking to work with us once you have found your feet.

* Having a good working knowledge of Excel and Adobe, most of the work you carry out will be on these platforms.

* Continually strive to improve the quality and productivity of your work. As a small and relatively new company, we encourage insights into how we could improve the way we work too.

* Be a problem solver, you will take the initiative to collaborate with your colleagues and wider team to overcome obstacles.

* Be contractually aware.

* Able to work in a quiet but focused busy office.

* Not afraid to ask questions! We work in fire safety; we cannot afford to make mistakes so we will encourage you to ask as many questions as you need. You will need to contact our clients to ask them questions too.

* Be a team player, as cliché as it sounds, we are a small team and cover all areas of the business between us, so we need to be able to work together effectively.

* Understand the moral duty of the work that we carry out – fire safety is extremely important.

* Be honest and trustworthy, you will make a big impact on the culture of our business.

* Want to work for a business that you can feel passionate about.

Responsibilities:

* Communicating with clients on a day-to-day basis via email and telephone.

* Assessing information/documentation provided to us by our clients and determining whether we can make compliant product selections. We may need additional information or clarification on the information provided, for which we will need to ask clients.

* Adding customer data to our schedule template to make selections against, providing relevant classifications and pricing. Subsequently raising a quote and issuing to customers.

* Be detail orientated and take pride in your work.

* Building and maintaining relationships with key clients.

* Preparing technical submissions for projects.

* Working alongside our current Estimators to manage the workload and ensure all projects have coverage.

Desirable:

* Have previous estimating experience in a similar role, ideally with an engineering or construction background.

* Have experience of reading specifications and tender documentation.

* Have previous knowledge or experience of fire dampers, smoke control dampers and/or control panels