Due to continued growth, one of the UK’s leading Fencing Contractors is currently seeking an Estimator to work full time from the South East Regional Office.
We are a well-established Company in the Fencing industry. The company supply a wide range of perimeter fencing and hoarding products, including temporary fencing, timber fencing, steel fencing, noise barriers, gates and gate automation products, to a variety of commercial, industrial and educational organisations across the South East of England.

The company are now looking to recruit an experienced Estimator to join the team. The ideal candidate will have previous experience working mainly with large contractors, a proven track record, excellent industry experience, be hardworking, driven and looking to join a growing organisation.

This role is a huge opportunity for someone with drive and ambition to come into the business and significantly impact the growth of the region. Support and development would be available to achieve this.

Your working hours will be 38.5 hours per week excluding lunch, Monday – Thursday 8.15am – 4.45pm Friday 8.00am – 3.00pm. However, it is pertinent to note that you may be required to work such additional hours as may be necessary for the efficient and proper performance of your duties.

Job Purpose:

• Estimating
• Generate sales orders for the department
• Building customer relationships
• Negotiating sales orders

Key Accountabilities

• Estimating
• Working closely with Regional Manager to develop the SE Region
• Site Surveys
• Offering value engineering to customers
• Take details off drawings (measuring fence lines and gate sizes)
• Negotiating with customers
• Liaising with purchasing department for up-to-date prices.
• Liaising with suppliers for prices.
• Taking incoming enquiry calls.

Key Skills/Knowledge/Experience:

• Previous experience of Estimating
• Taking details off drawings to facilitate estimating
• Good negotiating skills
• Liaising with the Contracts Manager ensuring a full handover from sales to contracts, and job cost review upon completion of job.
• Prioritising workload

Due to continued growth, one of the UK’s leading Fencing Contractors is currently seeking an Access Control & Gate Automation Supervisor. This role will be based at our Head Office in Bedwas with regular travel to Customer Sites as and when required.
We are a well-established organization in the Safety & Security industry. The company supply a wide range of perimeter fencing and hoarding products, including temporary fencing, timber fencing, steel fencing, noise barriers, gates and gate automation products, to a variety of commercial, industrial and educational organizations across the UK.

The ideal candidate will have previous experience working mainly with large contractors, a proven track record, excellent industry experience, be hardworking, driven and looking to join a growing organisation.

This role is a huge opportunity for someone with drive and ambition to come into the business and significantly grow this exciting new expansion for the Electrical Department.

To enable you to successfully carry out your role, you will be provided with a company car or allowance, phone, laptop etc. Your working hours will be Monday – Thursday 8am – 4.30pm Friday 8am – 3pm. However, it is pertinent to note that you may be required to work such additional hours as may be necessary for the efficient and proper performance of your duties.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise and provide technical support to a small team of Electricians
• Lead and attend meetings with Suppliers, Clients and Internal Customers (Contract managers/directors)
• Liaise with Suppliers to ensure availability of materials required for all projects.
• Ability to organise workload effectively.
• Carry out Risk Assessments on automatic gates.
• General Administration – (RAMS/technical files/quotations).
• Help develop new areas of the Business – Access Control.
• The role will also involve carrying out installations where required & fault finding on gate and access control systems so a ‘hands on approach’ is essential.

Key Skills:

• Project development & management with delivery to deadlines.
• Experience in managing/supervising a team.
• Good Knowledge in Access Control and Automatic Gates
• Experience with safety relays or programmable safety controllers
• Experience in specifying control elements in automation.
• Ability to grow customer base within Access Control/Automatic Gates
• Excellent communication skills
• Good IT skills and experience with Word/Excell packages etc.