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# Senior Estimator / Designer (IT Infrastructure)

- **Company:** Raven Search
- **Location:** Oldham, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £45,000.0 - £55,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Excel, AutoCAD, Internet Protocol Security (IP SEC), Bluebeam, Information Technology
- **Published:** August 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/senior-designer-it/raven-search-job107895865

## About the Role

* Senior-level estimating and technical design experience within a technology, infrastructure or engineering-led environment
 * Minimum 5 years' experience with recognised industry qualifications, or 10 years' experience without formal qualifications
 * Strong technical grounding in one or more of: passive and active IT infrastructure, structured cabling (copper and fibre), or low-voltage electrical infrastructure
 * Advantageous: UPS and battery energy storage systems, wireless and cellular technologies, IP security and wider IP-based platforms, audio visual and digital signage
 * Proven ability to design and price integrated, multi-discipline solutions within design-and-build and early contractor engagement environments
 * A clear track record of contributing directly to winning work through technical authority and commercial judgement, not just accurate pricing
 * Comfortable operating autonomously with genuine ownership of bids and commercial decisions
 * Confident engaging senior client stakeholders during pre-construction
 * Experience with frameworks, Schedule of Rates or public-sector procurement is highly advantageous
 * Advanced Excel is essential; familiarity with Simpro, Contract Master, AutoCAD, Ekahau, JVSG, BlueBeam or FieldWire is a strong plus
 * This role will not suit junior or support-only estimators, candidates without client or bid-stage engagement, quantity surveyors lacking technical design responsibility, or anyone uncomfortable with commercial accountability.

## Description

This is a hybrid role based from Oldham, and it is the second appointment ravensearch has made for this client following a successful placement earlier this year.
What You'll Be Doing

 * Leading cost planning, estimating and tender submissions for medium to large, technically complex projects, ensuring commercial robustness and alignment with delivery capability
 * Owning scope definition, assumptions, exclusions, dependencies and commercial risk, supporting bid strategy, margin control and value-engineering decisions
 * Developing and maintaining pricing models, bills of quantities, labour schedules and supporting documentation suitable for private and public-sector procurement
 * Leading or validating technical designs across IT infrastructure, structured cabling, low-voltage electrical and wireless systems, ensuring solutions are compliant, buildable and deliverable
 * Managing and coordinating internal surveying engineers and external survey partners during pre-construction
 * Building and maintaining strong client relationships at bid and pre-construction stage, operating as a trusted technical partner rather than a transactional supplier
 * Contributing directly to winning work through technical credibility, commercial input and effective engagement with clients, internal stakeholders and the supply chain
 * Monitoring tender portals and framework pipelines, including advance planning for public-sector renewals and re-procurements
 * Maintaining a structured opportunity pipeline with accurate forecasting of probability, value and key milestones
 * Supporting the continuous improvement of estimating standards, tools and governance as the function scales
 * Acting as a senior reference point for developing colleagues, with informal mentoring where useful


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