Apprentice Estimator
PHOENIX BRICKWORK (UK) LIMITED
Derbyshire (NG16 6RA)
Closes in 10 days (Wednesday 30 April 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 26 March 2025
Contents
Summary
Phoenix Brickwork UK Ltd have a great opportunity for a talented person to join our estimating team in Nottingham. The role will train you in all aspects of working with customers, from initial enquiry to order, for the various projects we are working on. We are looking for a candidate who prior working experience - even if in an unrelated field.
- Wage
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£18,000 a year
- Training course
- Construction support technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm with 1-hour unpaid lunch break
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Thursday 1 May 2025
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you’ll do at work
An Apprentice Estimator learns to estimate project costs by supporting the estimating team, gathering quotes, learning to read drawings, and assisting with site visits.
To undertake the tasks involved within the estimating process - an Estimator is required to produce quotations, against which a customer will place an order.
A quotation contains a list of products (identified by reviewing a set of drawings provided by the customer) and the cost for supplying these products.)
- Use IT for document creation, communication, and information management
- Comply with GDPR and cyber security
- Communicate in written form to internal and external stakeholders using a range of techniques and reporting mechanisms in line with company policies, using construction and built environment terminology
- Comply with health and safety regulations and procedures. Identify and document risks and hazards. Apply statutory and company environmental and safe working practices
- Apply and integrate appropriate mathematical and technical knowledge in the completion of built environment site and/or office processes to contribute to the coordination of construction projects
- Apply sustainable principles and low carbon processes in order to implement site environmental solutions
- Plan, carry out and manage own work in line with management requirements, assessing tasks, scheduling work, achieving deadlines, reviewing performance and keeping records of work undertaken
Where you’ll work
Unit 2 Plymouth Avenue
Brookhill Industrial Estate
Pinxton
Derbyshire
NG16 6RA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
NOTTINGHAM COLLEGE
Your training course
Construction support technician (level 3)
Equal to A level
Course contents
- Apply and integrate appropriate mathematical and technical knowledge in the completion of built environment site and/or office processes to contribute to the coordination of construction projects.
- Comply with health and safety regulations and procedures. Identify and document risks and hazards. Apply statutory and company environmental and safe working practices. Produce construction project risk assessment and method statements.
- Communicate verbally to internal and external stakeholders using a range of techniques in line with company policies.
- Interpret and abstract contract documentation to develop site solutions.
- Apply digital construction processes to produce resource lists from tender and contract documentation.
- The use of project tendering, measurement and costing systems to assist with the planning of schedules of work and to provide early warning of problems for all contract phases on site.
- Plan, carry out and manage own work in line with management requirements, assessing tasks, scheduling work, achieving deadlines, reviewing performance and keeping records of work undertaken.
- Apply sustainable principles and low carbon processes in order to implement site environmental solutions.
- Use information technology. For example, for document creation, communication, and information management. Comply with GDPR and cyber security.
- Plan and undertake continued professional development (CPD) to maintain and enhance competence in their own area of practice.
- Communicate in written form to internal and external stakeholders using a range of techniques and reporting mechanisms in line with company policies, using construction and built environment terminology.
- Apply and integrate appropriate mathematical and technical knowledge in the completion of built environment site and/or office processes to contribute to the coordination of construction projects.
- Comply with health and safety regulations and procedures. Identify and document risks and hazards. Apply statutory and company environmental and safe working practices. Produce construction project risk assessment and method statements.
- Communicate verbally to internal and external stakeholders using a range of techniques in line with company policies.
- Interpret and abstract contract documentation to develop site solutions.
- Apply digital construction processes to produce resource lists from tender and contract documentation.
- The use of project tendering, measurement and costing systems to assist with the planning of schedules of work and to provide early warning of problems for all contract phases on site.
- Plan, carry out and manage own work in line with management requirements, assessing tasks, scheduling work, achieving deadlines, reviewing performance and keeping records of work undertaken.
- Apply sustainable principles and low carbon processes in order to implement site environmental solutions.
- Use information technology. For example, for document creation, communication, and information management. Comply with GDPR and cyber security.
- Plan and undertake continued professional development (CPD) to maintain and enhance competence in their own area of practice.
- Communicate in written form to internal and external stakeholders using a range of techniques and reporting mechanisms in line with company policies, using construction and built environment terminology.
Your training plan
Level 3 Construction in the Built Environment/Construction Support Technician apprenticeship.
College day release starts September 2025 at Basford Campus delivered one day per week during term time.
However, the company is ready to employ an apprentice as soon as they find the right person, so please don't hesitate in applying.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English & maths (grade minimum 4 or C or Level 2 pass)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
Other requirements
Please research your potential commute to the company's office based on an industrial estate in Pinxton before applying.
About this company
Phoenix Brickwork started life in 2010 in Belper, Derbyshire. The first project was a garage extension valued at £4,600. By the end of the first year of trading, Phoenix had turned over in excess of £1million. Phoenix’s core values have not changed since 2010. The emphasis has been placed on the health, safety and welfare of staff, high quality of workmanship and solid client relationships, rather than on profit. As a direct result of this, Phoenix’s reputation has grown and they now turnover in excess of £15million with many of the clients and original workforce still working with Phoenix to this day. The Phoenix Apprenticeship Programme was born in 2014 and has seen many students from different regions progress through their training, with a high proportion deciding to stay with the Company post qualification. Phoenix prides itself on the quality and loyalty of staff and sub-contractors alike. They strive to provide a professional and safe place of work for all, with every individual given the opportunity to better their existing skill set via regular training courses and continued professional development. Phoenix employs in-house trainers with CIEH qualifications so that training can be tailored and delivered around business requirements, and before UKCG recommendations become mandatory requirements.
After this apprenticeship
Potential for ongoing employment following successful completion of the apprenticeship programme, provided a position is available.
There are options for progression onto Level 4 apprenticeships in the Construction in the Built Environment sector, if the company and apprentice are open to exploring these.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NOTTINGHAM COLLEGE
Nottingham College Apprenticeship Team
business@nottinghamcollege.ac.uk
0115 9457260
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000311776.
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Closes in 10 days (Wednesday 30 April 2025 at 11:59pm)
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