Project Manager / Estimator (Medium – Heavy Fabrications)

The Role:

To receive enquiries, estimate and convert orders into manufacturing packages for production. Efficiently and cost effectively project manage awarded contracts to full completion ensuring clients needs are met. Build ongoing professional relationships with key customers.

Key Responsibilities:

· Read technical tender drawings.
· Extract and price materials.
· Decide best process route for the items to be fabricated.
· Put times to processes using practical knowledge.
· Establish supply chain costs to be included in tenders.
· Generate quotation documents and send to clients.
· Liaise with customer.
· Negotiate and complete tenders to sales.
· Ensure the Company CRM system is accurately maintained.
· Provide a timely response and an exceptional level of service to all enquiries.
· Convert won tenders to live orders within the company business system.
· Process planning of routings, generation of weld maps and bills of material.
· Manage supply chain for all bought-out components.
· Manage the drawing package and works information to allow efficient production.
· Liaise with Production on all manufacturing issues.
· Generation and issue of quality documents to clients.
· Full financial control and appraisal of each project.
· Build relationships with clients and recognise new business opportunities.

Person Specification:

· High level sales experience in a client facing environment.
· Expert knowledge of the steel fabrication sector and the industries that feed into it.
· Established contacts and prospects relevant to the steel fabrication sector.
· Excellent communication skills.
· Able to deliver clear and concise ideas to internal and external stakeholders and produce top quality proposals and presentations.
· Proactive and highly organised, with strong time management and planning skills, meticulous attention to detail and a proven ability to multi-task.
· Committed and Proactive

The Package:

Salary is negotiable dependant on experience to date.
Position is not site based, and does not include a company car.

** to be considered **