Principle Estimator

4 days ago

Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Hunter Selection Limited Full time

**Principle Estimator**

**Southern Cambridgeshire**

**Commutable from - Cambridge, Peterborough, Huntingdon, Bedford, Chatteris, St. Neots
£35,000-£40,000**

**Our client is a global leading automation & technology solutions provider, working on engineering projects within the food, FMCG and automated distribution industries. Due to global growth and securing multi-million-pound projects in the UK, theyare looking for a Principle Estimator to join their brand new venture in the UK.**

**Role & Responsibilities**:

- Support sales teams by preparing technical & commercial costings proposals
- Generating concepts and turning these into quotations, using a quotation system
- Discuss project costing requirements with sales managers, project engineers and systems designers
- Researching new technologies
- Communicating with established suppliers and seeking new ones
- Establishing in-house manufacturing costs through working with costing, production & projects
- Work on improvement and updates of quoting systems
- Support projects managers & sales teams during the project process if changes occur
- Keep the sales managers well briefed on the quoting process and financial viability
- Driving the issue of price lists, working closely with the costing department and interpreting the requirements of sales departments

**Knowledge, Skills & Experience**:

- Experienced in technical quoting and costings for projects
- Ideally engineering background, strong technical knowledge
- Preferable knowledge of materials handling equipment, automation, robotics etc.
- Worked with clients in manufacturing / production
- Able to influence, engage with and communicate effectively across multiple business levels
- Be highly detailed, accurate and analytically minded
- Flexible to with working hours, communicating with suppliers, colleagues & customers globally
- Ideally degree qualified in engineering
- Must have excellent Microsoft Office skills - including Excel
- Able to manage estimating across multiple medium to large capital projects
- Good presentation skills for both customers and internal colleagues
- Have an understanding of the main principals in projects - planning, scheduling, cost, change management, project information management
- Able to read drawings and interpret technical concepts

**SE20777 / 400**

If you are interested in this role or looking for something similar, please contact our Managing Consultant **Chris Gumm** directly at or call them for a confidential discussion on.

Hunter Selection is a nationwide provider of recruitment services in ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING, SERVICE & TECHNOLOGY. Find out more about us and search all our current vacancies at hunterselection.co.uk

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