Estimator - Rail

**About the role**
Are you ready to take your career to the next level? We're seeking a dynamic and experienced **Estimator** **to join our** Painter Brothers** team in **Hereford or Scotland **and play a pivotal role in driving excellence in rail operations.

**Painter Brothers** **is one of the UK's leading specialist in structural steel manufacture. We have the capacity to produce in excess of 15,000 tones of steelwork each year. Our 50,000m2 site has a wide range of machinery meaning we can manufacture and store any type of structural steelwork, including galvanised specialist structural steelwork.

As the UK’s largest fabricator of towers for the overhead power transmission network, we are embarking on a period of considerable growth. With the government committed to delivering Net Zero by 2050, the investment in electricity infrastructure over the next 10 years will be higher than any period since the construction of the national grid in the 1960’s. We are also seeing growth in our Rail and Nuclear markets. Painter Brothers are ideally placed as a trusted and expert partner, so why not come and join us for the journey?

** You can choose to be based in Hereford or Scotland **
**What you'll be doing**
- Ensure that the Rail Systems strategy for Growth and Industry Margins is achieved through ensuring our value is ‘sold’ to our customers.
- Take the lead on small/medium size bids to ensure that tender deliverables are produced in a timely and effective manner.
- Support the management of workload as required within the bid team.
- Support and/or interrogate design options and ‘value’ solutions, identifying the attractiveness of a project based on sound estimation principles.
- Review tender documents and submission requirements, ensuring all financial information is identified and provided and accurate and compliant design proposals are included.
- Select suitable sub-contractors and specialists for each project.
- Ensure all tender documentation, approvals and customer correspondence is saved within SharePoint under the correct tender folder.
- Prepare cost information and tender submissions for senior management.
- Carry out monthly chase up calls for outstanding submitted tenders.
- Manage and coordinate the preparation of preliminary and general expense pricing, including plant schedules and risk assessment

**Who we're looking for**
- Strong knowledge of manufacturing sectors gained either through direct experience of delivery and / or direct experience of sales / bidding activity.
- A demonstrable ability to achieve sales targets, build customer portfolios, and identify cross sales opportunities.
- Experience of working collaboratively within a high pressure team environment and meeting key deadlines.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Good working knowledge of pricing and quantification methods.
- Proficiency in IT, numeracy and MS Office & estimating systems.
- Demonstrate integrity and a professional image at all times.

**What's on Offer**
- Competitive negotiated salary
- BB Pension Scheme
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Payment of an annual professional membership
- Enhanced maternity/paternity & family friendly policies
- Real career progression opportunities
- Access to our referral scheme programme

**Why work for us**
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

**Why join us?**

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

**About us**
Balfour Beatty works at the heart of the UK’s rail networks - designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth.

From feasibility studies, planning and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.

**Diversity and inclusion**

Job Reference: BBUK07684