Estimating Administrator

We are an electrical contractor carrying out projects for some of the world's leading retail and commercial enterprises.

Based in the West Midlands and operating throughout the UK.

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced estimating administrator to join our busy, friendly team.

Key responsibilities

Providing support to estimators for the tender return process
Overseeing the estimating inbox and collating incoming enquires
Saving & printing initial tender documents and version control for subsequent issues
Issuing tender enquiries to sub-contractors
Logging sub-contractor pricing information
Maintenance of the estimating tracker
Preparation for meetings
Managing meeting outcomes
Communication with customers, suppliers, project managers and site staff
Assist with drawing take-offs
Composing letters & spreadsheets
Producing reports

The skills / experience you will need: (estimating administrator)

Previous experience in building services environment would be beneficial (especially electrical)
Excellent communicator verbally and in writing
Fantastic at time management, prioritising and meeting deadlines
You need to love working under pressure and multi-taskingIT skills including:

Intermediate Word (ability to produce reports with tables of contents, documents with tables and charts, mail merge)
Intermediate Excel (ability to create spreadsheets from scratch, use the data functions to filter, sort, sub-total, validate, basic functions including if, sumif, count, vlookup)
Adobe (ability to create, edit and comment on Adobe documents, convert to other formats, extract pages, redact and combine documents)
Web tools (advanced knowledge of search engines, familiar with Dropbox for Business, experience with client portals for downloading / uploading of project documentation)