As Passive Fire Estimator, you will take responsibility for pricing a range of passive fire protection tenders, ensuring accurate and commercially competitive submissions are produced and successfully handed over to the delivery team.
Key Responsibilities
- Pricing tenders for fire stopping and compartmentation packages
- Pricing planned and reactive maintenance contracts across the UK, Ireland, and EU
- Completing detailed take-offs from drawings, surveys, and specifications
- Building accurate rates covering labour, materials, plant, access, and preliminaries
- Liaising with suppliers and subcontractors to obtain competitive quotations
- Attending site visits, pre-tender meetings, and client meetings where required
- Preparing clear and well-documented tender submissions
- Providing a comprehensive handover to the Contracts Team and Quantity Surveyor when work is secured
- Reviewing completed projects against original estimates
- Working closely with the QS to identify lessons learned and improve future pricing
- Managing multiple tender enquiries and ensuring deadlines are met
Ideal Candidate
- Proven estimating experience within the passive fire protection industry
- Genuine technical and commercial competence across firestopping and compartmentation
- Experience with intumescent products and fire doors would be highly advantageous
- Strong understanding of third-party accreditation, fire door standards, and current fire safety legislation would be preferred
- Confident ability to read drawings and specifications and complete accurate take-offs
- Strong understanding of labour, material, plant, access, and preliminaries costs
- Excellent commercial judgement
- Strong supplier and subcontractor negotiation skills
- Highly organised and methodical approach
- Ability to manage multiple enquiries and competing deadlines
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
- Confident telephone communicator with the ability to engage comfortably with clients, suppliers, subcontractors, and colleagues
Our client is a specialist contractor operating within the passive fire protection sector, delivering fire stopping, compartmentation, fire door, and associated fire protection solutions across a wide range of projects. The business works across the UK, Ireland, and Europe, delivering both project-based fire protection packages and planned/reactive maintenance contracts. Due to continued growth, they are now looking to appoint an experienced Passive Fire Estimator to strengthen their commercial team.
Requirements
- Full UK Driving Licence
What's on Offer
- Salary up to £60,000
- Additional package/benefits
- Opportunity to join a growing specialist passive fire protection contractor
- Exposure to projects across the UK, Ireland, and Europe
- Varied workload covering fire stopping, compartmentation, and maintenance contracts
- Opportunity to take ownership of the estimating function across a diverse range of tenders
- Supportive and commercially focused working environment
- Long-term career progression within a specialist business
We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities.
Our recruitment process is designed to ensure equal opportunities for all candidates.
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