Fabrication Estimator

  • WEC GROUP LIMITED
  • Darwen, Lancashire
  • Dec 12, 2025
Full time Manufacturing

Job Description

Working Location: Darwen, Lancashire

Salary: Up to £45kWorking Location: Darwen, Lancashire

Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 basic DOE
Hours of work:
Week 1: Mon Fri : 8am 5pm.
Week 2: Mon Thurs : 8am 5pm. Fri: 8am 2pm.

Key Responsibilities
  • Detailed Quotations: Generate precise manufacturing cost estimates from customer drawings.
  • Project Management: Monitor delivery lead times and coordinate sub-contract support.
  • Costing & Routing: Develop comprehensive labor and material costing, creating full routing information.
  • Supplier Liaison: Engage with sub-contract suppliers as needed.
  • Quotation Management: Input all data into the system to produce full quotations for the sales department.
  • Customer Interaction: Monitor enquiries, engage directly with customers and end users, and resolve queries.
  • Internal Collaboration: Work closely with internal departments to expedite progress.
Experience
  • Experience: Time-served/shop floor experience in fabrication and/or multi-disciplined engineering.
  • Customer Engagement: Ability to have technical discussions and sell WECs capabilities.
  • Technical Expertise: Understand RFQs and technical drawings, providing practical design guidance.
  • Sales Skills: Experience in sales, business development, and account management.
  • Leadership Potential: Ability to manage and grow a team of estimators.
  • Technical Proficiency: Read fabrication drawings and complete complex quotations accurately.

Company Benefits
  • 25 days holiday per year
  • Company profit share scheme
  • Refer a friend scheme
  • Death in service award
  • Free secure parking
  • Health and wellbeing cashback scheme
  • Employee benefit loan scheme

Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Hours of work: Week 1: 8am 5pm Monday Friday
Week 2: 8am 5pm Monday Thursday and 8am 1pm Friday

  • Industry-leading Salary and benefits
  • Be part of a rapidly expanding company
  • Opportunities for career progression and personal development
About the role

As a Group Health and Safety Officer/Coordinator, you will have an instrumental role working for the WEC Groups central function, where you will be fully supported by the Groups QHSE Manager. Your role will involve,

  • Actively supporting continuous improvement for all health and safety activities throughout all WEC divisions.
  • Ensuring all personnel and visitors are adhering to safe working practices.
  • Identifying and resolving health and safety issues quickly and effectively using the embedded health and safety tools and techniques used throughout the group.
  • Focusing on reducing the accident rate and non-conformances throughout the group.
  • Providing key Health and Safety support to all the WEC Group divisions.
  • Undertaking Internal and Supplier audits.
  • Document control.
  • Supporting all WEC divisions with their own NCRs.
  • Attending/leading health and safety meetings at all WEC divisions.
  • Raising and implementing safety notices.
  • Identifying and implementing health and safety improvements throughout all WEC divisions.
  • Completing customer questionnaires as and when required.
  • Leading supplier approval.
  • Conducting toolbox talks as required/support supervisors with their own toolbox talks.
  • Supporting environmental related tasks.
  • Any other health and safety related duties as and when required.
Essential Experience:
  • Good working knowledge of H+S processes
  • Passionate about improving Health and Safety
  • Excellent communicator at all levels
  • Excellent time keeping
  • Ability to complete given tasks within a timely manner
  • Sharp attention to detail
  • Meticulous and diligent attributes
  • Ability to work independently when needed
  • Excellent IT skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Power point, and Outlook
  • Full UK driving licence, as you will be driving the company cars between sites
Desirable Experience:
  • Engineering/fabrication/welding experience
  • Safe working practices within an engineering environment
  • Health and Safety inspections/reports
  • Risk assessments
  • Health and Safety audits
  • Environmental audits
  • Non-conformance reporting
  • Identification of workplace hazards and associated risks
  • Implementation of effective preventive actions
  • ISO45001:2018 standard
  • ISO14001:2015 standard
  • Health and safety related qualifications
Company Benefits
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Profit share
  • Refer a friend scheme
  • Free on site car parking
  • Company pension
  • Employee benefit loan scheme
  • Death in service award
  • Discounted gym membership
  • Discounted attractions

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