Senior Electrical Estimator

Enerveo is one of the largest contracting businesses in the UK, offering a broad scope of services including mechanical, electrical, high voltage, electrical vehicle (EV) infrastructure installation, test and inspection services, as well as street lighting.

Job Title: Senior Electrical Estimator

Base Location: Bristol, Swindon, Plymouth / Hybrid

Salary: Up to £60,000

Working Pattern: Contingent worker: Full Time

What will I be doing in this role?

In this role, you'll develop accurate estimates and manage bids for design and build projects, including large and more complex major schemes ensuring that all client requirements and technical issues are fully considered. You'll also hold responsibility for option appraisals and identifying and applying alternative solutions to enhance bid profitability and the delivery of value engineering.

You'll prioritise and manage your own workload, maintain accurate records of tenders submitted while interfacing with the Estimating Manager and our Work Winning / Procurement Operations teams. This will be completed with the objective of ensuring accuracy, best value and competitiveness of estimate and accommodation of the supply chain critical path.

Your role will involve:

• Providing accurate take offs and maintaining a high level of competency when preparing prime cost estimates.
• Developing Value Engineering Proposals and providing innovation where applicable.
• Competently using Trimble Contract Master for preparing estimates.
• Managing client and key stakeholder requests in a professional and timely manner.

What do I need to be successful in the role?

We are looking for you to bring your ability to prepare Schedule of Rates, "take off" quantities from drawings or bill of quantities, and have previous experience within an electrical contracting environment.

You'll also have strong commercial and business awareness to enable you to identify and recommend appropriate bid proposals that meet the client needs. Therefore, you must be highly motivated and accurate, as attention to detail is vital, as is excellent Math’s and IT skills.

In addition you’ll possess a proven track record for securing works within the marketplace having a technical knowledge of and covering a broad scope of works inclusive of:

• Building services
• Knowledge of various Electrical installations ranging from 240V - 11kV
• Main switchgear and sub distribution
• LV Cable installation and jointing works.
• Controls & Instrumentation
• Specialist subcontractors – broad understanding of requirements for projects and accurate vetting of quotations from supply chain partners.
• Staff Management and Delivery team requirements on site.
• Testing & Commissioning
• Ideally have design and build capability with the ability to evaluate design scope gaps on tenders.
• HV knowledge would be a benefit