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Date Added: Wed 14/05/2025

Technical Estimator

Milton Keynes, MK9, UK
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Company: PROACTIVE GLOBAL

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

Salary: £40000 - £45000/annum

Job Overview

To be responsible for generating accurate and comprehensive cost estimates for projects, ensuring that systems are competitively represented in project quotations. This role requires in-depth knowledge of doorsets, fire compliance and construction methods to analyse project specifications, interpret architectural drawings, and determine accurate product selection in line with industry standards and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities and Duties

Have a deep understanding of how to achieve spec compliance
Ability to review architect tender information to create a brief for the estimating team
Have an in-depth knowledge of the product range and supply chain to enable the best commercial solution
Ability to identify value engineering options and improvements
Quote revisions and other administration activities that may be required to assist the Project Consultant.
An ability to answer questions over the phone or email and add to the CRM system. This would come from our internal technical product training
Liaise with clients, contractors, architects, and suppliers to gather necessary information for accurate cost pricing.Selo is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

An in-depth knowledge of Excel
A good knowledge of what competitors we have for each of our systems, and the relevant benefits of ours over theirs
Understand the construction industry, the fire door industry and the key industry standards and regulations
A clear understanding of each product and it's specific details, what situations it's used in, and certifications required.
The ability to navigate and utilise the Pipedrive CRM system effectively
The ability to plan and control how you manage your time and tasks to accomplish company objectives.
Effective communication to be able to express ideas and views, clearly and concisely either verbally or in written form.
Candidate will need to be prepared to focus on task completion, which may require a flexible approach to working hours.
Ability to adapt and be flexible to the needs to the project/team.

Key Competencies

Previous experience within the industry
Alignment with our 10 core values
Adaptability
Organisation skills
Communication skills
Solutions orientated
Ability and willingness to learn quickly and diversify
Working with a team
Flexibility to balance the proactive and reactive sides of the roleBenefits:

Salary: £40-45k

Office based

Monday to Friday 7:30am - 4:30pm (3:30pm finish on Friday's)

Life insurance 3x salary

Private Health Insurance

days holiday (with an additional 1 day per full year employed increasing up to additional 5 days) plus BankHolidays

days per annum working from homeCompany closed over Christmas period (not taken from annual leave) Cooked Lunch provided for all employees/breakfast items supplied.

Free onsite parking

Employee Referral Scheme

Long Service Awards

Employee of the Month

Discretionary bonus scheme (after probationary period)

On-site gym

Enhanced Maternity Pay

Full pay Paternity Leave

Half year team building days

Proactive Global is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.
Proactive Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy
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