Trainee Estimator

**Competitive salary depending on experience**

An excellent opportunity has now arisen for a Trainee Estimator to join us in High Wycombe within our Optima Major Works team.

This role provides a great opportunity to learn the role of a sub-contractor estimator which involves building costs up from first principles, through to a full sales price.

Working alongside our team of experienced Estimators you will undertake the following activities:
**Duties**:

- To receive enquiries allocated by either the Senior Estimators or the Divisional Director.
- Take off quantities where necessary from drawings.
- Scan in Bills of quantities where available.
- Send out enquiries for materials and sub-contract items.
- Receive and evaluate prices for materials and sub-contractors.
- Build up the price using either the estimating system or an Excel spreadsheet.
- Liaise with sales to ensure that any tender presentation is requested in adequate time.
- Attend sales meetings as required and chase up / follow through any priced projects as discussed in those sales meetings to either an order or a lost job.
- Calculate any preliminary costs using the Excel prelim spreadsheet.
- Present the price to the either the Senior Estimators or Divisional Director for adjudication.
- Finalise any changes made and submit the price.
- Prepare a monthly schedule of prospects for submission to the Divisional Director.
- Maintain and update on a weekly basis as a minimum the estimating register.