Once again we are hiring here at AB Glass.
To see if there are any jobs that you could be suited to, have a look at our latest job advert below.
Commercial Manager job role advert
Estimator
AB Glass has an exciting opportunity for a trainee estimator to join our existing estimating team, based at our Swansea office as well. Typical projects include hospitals, schools, universities, student accommodation and large building projects for the commercial market and also smaller contracts for the domestic market. Tenders values in the range of £1k – £3million for national builders, developers, architects and domestic customers.
Duties include but not limited to:
• Building on relationships with clients and key suppliers.
• Working as part of the estimating team to negotiate and secure orders.
• Liaising with and reporting to senior estimators and commercial management.
• Managing tenders. During tender start-up discussing and establishing bid-winning strategy. Meeting with tender team, collating author contributions, and editing to produce coherent documents for submission.
• Estimating from first principles; establish productivity and assign labour, plant and material resources to tasks.
• Producing accurate costs, and identify key risks and opportunities to enable effective tender settlements.
• Negotiate final contract sums and attend pre-order meetings, with the assistance of senior management.
• Liaise with other departments such as buying, quantity surveying and contracts management.
Ideal candidates will:
• Be able to show adaptability; a willingness to learn and succeed, a passion to develop and have a general knowledge and basic understanding of construction.
Key attributes:
• Pro-active
• Analytical
• Good communicator
• Reactive
• Self-disciplined
• Strongly able and want to learn more about products and problems/solution
• Computer Literate
In return we offer a steady workload; on-going training, a full order book going forward, good work / life balance. If interested send a copy of your CV to nigel.harvey@abforglass.co.uk or call the office on Swansea 584440. Take a look at our web site on www.abforglass.co.uk and see if we have the right career for you.
Job Type
Permanent