Sales Estimator

Edwards Surfacing (KAE Ltd) · Great Horwood, Buckinghamshire · Full time, office based

£35,000 to £45,000 depending on experience, plus performance bonus

About us

Edwards Surfacing is a family-run tarmacadam, asphalt and civils contractor based at Great Horwood in Buckinghamshire. Founded by Ken Edwards MIAT, the company is run by the family, with his son Simon as Managing Director.

We work for private homeowners, commercial clients, local authorities and main contractors, on everything from residential driveways to large commercial and infrastructure schemes. That includes roads, car parks, driveways, footpaths, school playgrounds and industrial premises. We use good materials, modern plant and CSCS-carded operatives.

The role

This is a new role, created to take charge of our quotations and win more of the work we are asked to price. It is based in our office at Great Horwood.

Day to day you will:

• Manage the lead register and make sure every enquiry is picked up promptly
• Price straightforward jobs yourself from measurements, photographs and satellite imagery
• Turn the surveyors' site measurements into priced quotations, usually the same day
• Follow up open quotations and record the outcome, whether we win the job or not
• Work with our four surveyors, the office team and our suppliers to get the detail right
• Help us understand why we win and lose, so we can price better over time

You will be working with our own quoting system, which we have built in house and continue to develop, so there is scope to shape how the job is done.

What we are looking for

• Experience of pricing work in construction, civils, surfacing or a related trade
• Confidence with measurements, quantities and rates, and the accuracy to get them right
• The ability to read drawings and specifications
• Organised, and able to keep a lot of quotations moving at once
• The confidence to pick up the phone to a customer
• Comfortable with spreadsheets and learning new software
• A UK driving licence

Helpful, but not essential:

• A background in surfacing, highways or civil engineering
• A qualification in construction, civil engineering or quantity surveying
• Experience of estimating software

If you have priced work for a groundworks, surfacing or civils contractor and enjoy the selling side as much as the numbers, we would like to hear from you.

What we offer

• £35,000 to £45,000 depending on experience
• Performance bonus based on quotation turnaround, follow-up and jobs won
• Full time, Monday to Friday, based at our Great Horwood office (MK17 0NP)
• A settled family business with over twenty years behind it, and a say in how the role develops
• Further benefits may be available following a period of probation