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Based- Sowerby Bridge, UK**COMPANY OVERVIEW**

J&C Joel supply, manufacture, and install, a range of products into the entertainment and events industry. The core of its business is flame retardant fabrics, and manufacturing high-end technical and decorative drapery. Over the last 15 years J&C Joel has hugely grown and developed its stage engineering solutions through its Project’s department, which installs a wide range of systems, ranging from basic curtain tracks and drapery, through to high performance motorised rigging and stage engineering, with sophisticated automation controls.

The award-winning company has been trading successfully for over 40 years and has a global reach through several international facilities, with a HQ in West Yorkshire, as well as offices and operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

J&C Joel’s products and services can be found all over the world, from school auditoriums, TV and film studios and live entertainment venues to internationally renowned performing arts venues, including theatres, exhibition halls and the world’s most prestigious opera houses.

J&C Joel places a strong emphasis on the adoption of its values across its business, which focuses on the Customer, Excellence, Innovation, Partnerships and Pride. Furthermore, the company holds a strong belief that its people are what make the business so special.

**OVERALL PURPOSE**

A Projects Estimator is required to assess technical documents, including site reports, drawings, and specifications to help recommend the correct components, products, and services to fulfil the requirements of a quote request raised by the sales teams around the business.

This is a process requiring partnership with other departments within the business such as Design, Project Management, and Sales, as well as a variety of suppliers. At the end of this a submission is produced, appropriate to the scale of the job, providing technical and commercial information.

The Project Estimator will support the existing team throughout this process and grow their expertise to enable them to manage their own pipeline of quotations for curtains, tracks, and other stage machinery - installed on site.

This is an exciting opportunity to be exposed to commercial and technical knowledge and training, under the tutelage of experienced mentors. Ultimately helping to produce proposals for a wide variety of interesting performance spaces in the UK and all over the world.

**KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES / RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Respond to requests raised by colleagues via an internal software system.
- Understanding and analysing site reports, technical specification, and drawings.
- Contacting suppliers for technical information and pricing.
- Draft basic sketches/drawings as part of discussions with clients and for tender proposals.
- Meeting with design team and project managers to assess proposed technical solutions and install methodology.
- Meeting with sales team to assess proposed commercial offers.
- Complete costing documents to calculate the value of the estimate.
- Compile detailed proposal documents combining technical and commercial information.
- Inputting submitted quotes into company ERP system.
- Facilitating the handover of a successful quotation to the project management department (discussing supplier choices, design proposals and project parameters).
- Keep up to date with relevant industry safety and professional standards.
- Learn the technical attributes of our key products and the partner suppliers we work with.

**SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES**

We are seeking a driven individual, who is keen to learn and develop into a key role within the business.

Ideally, we are looking at a recent graduate with a technical degree, or someone with 2-3 years’ experience in a role providing relevant experience.
- Attention to detail - to read and understand a range of technical documents.
- Organised approach to workload - able to utilise library of technical and commercial estimating tools to work on multiple job estimates at any time in order to hit submittal deadlines
- Must be a competent user of Excel, and Acrobat.Experience of technical design software such as SolidWorks, AutoCAD, etc. would be beneficial.
- A knowledge or interest in theatre, shows, or engineering is beneficial