Junior Design Estimator

2 months ago

Leicester, United Kingdom Complete Detection Systems Limited Full time

**About the role**

As a Junior Design Estimator with CDS you will be using your design & estimating skills supporting our clients with their project requirements. Working with M&E contractors and end users, you will be able to realise your creative potential and work on providing your customers with compliant and cost-effective solutions to win the works.

This is an office-based role to accommodate your training and development needs. You’ll report to our senior design estimators and work with a close-knit Team of fellow designers, sales and project managers. This is a newly created role in a forward thinking, ambitious business so the opportunities to progress and develop are vast.

**What you'll be doing**

As a **Fire and security Design/ Estimator**, you will have the following accountabilities:

- Undertake the role of junior design /Estimator on projects working alongside your mentors to complete the estimating function on assigned tenders
- Assisting the sales team to with the bid process to ensure that tender deliverables are produced in a timely and effective manner
- Assist senior colleagues to interrogate design options and value solutions, and if appropriate, identify the attractiveness of a project based on sound estimating principles.
- Assist colleagues to review customers drawings and specifications to prepare accurate costing sheets for materials, labour and equipment
- Work with the team to review tender documents and submission requirements, ensuring all financial information is identified and provided and accurate compliant design proposals are included
- Establish and agree key plant costs where required
- Co-ordinate the preparation of preliminary and general expense pricing, including plant and QHSE requirements with the team
- Provide audit trails of cost allowances as part of the commercial handover meeting to the projects team
- Ensure that key specialists are utilised on each bid to optimise design, specification, programme and value
- Assist with managing the production of cost information and tender submissions for senior management
- Provide considered responses to customer questions including post tender queries
- Ensure that cost planning and estimating are accurate and reflect the project requirements and risk profile

**Who we're looking for**

**Requirements**:

- Experience in the field of Fire life safety design and estimating role would be beneficial.
- Experience in designing and estimating security projects would be beneficial
- Industry product knowledge would be beneficial
- Strong communication skills at all levels, both written and verbal
- Ability to work to tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- An understanding of the estimating requirements / variables would be beneficial
- Attention to detail
- Fast learner with the ability to digest information and utilise newly acquired skills
- Be a team player

**Why work for us**

Every day our teams deliver fantastic projects in challenging conditions, developing, managing and maintaining full compliance with all relevant standards in the fire life safety sector.

**About Us**

For more than 30 years, CDS have embraced sustainable, transparent and environmentally responsible practices. So, we are looking for colleagues to work with us to strengthen our own commitment to responsible sourcing, as well as safety and security. At CDS we’re driven by our values and believe in being collaborative, trusted, enterprising and disciplined.

Here at CDS, we are one of the UK’s most trusted experts, we work with world-class manufacturers to design, install, maintain and commission fire life safety solutions that are right for our clients’ bespoke needs and environment.

Join our **CDS** team as a **Design/Estimator** and you'll be part of our legacy.

**Employment Package**
- Salary - Circa £22k - £28K (negotiable/dependent on industry experience)
- Annual leave - 25 days plus statutory bank holidays

**Salary**: £22,000.00-£28,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- LEICESTER: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in LEICESTER

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