Senior Painting Surveyor/ Contracts Manager

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Senior Painting Estimator / Surveyor/ Contracts Manager - Bristol

Bagnalls is a highly regarded, family-owned, professional painting contractor with 650 directly employed staff working from 17 branches across the UK. We are excited to be celebrating our 150th birthday in 2025. We work on significant, high-value commercial and highly decorative painting projects with major blue-chip companies, prestigious universities and famous historic buildings.

At Bagnalls we strive to live our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and people.

Holding to these values is vital to the way we accomplish our work and we are looking for someone to be a big part of bringing these values to life in our Bristol based Business.

Job Description- Painting Estimator / Surveyor/ Contracts Manager - Bristol

Location: Based from our Bristol Office carrying out contracts across the South West including Bristol, Bath, Exeter, Swindon and Gloucester.

The Role

Bagnalls has a vibrant organisational culture that encourages leadership at every level. This role is an integral and trusted role right at the heart of the action of our Bristol business with over 40 painters and apprentices. We require an individual with a proven track record in Senior Painting Estimator / Surveyor/ Contracts Manager.

Safety- must always be at the heart of your decision making.

Integrity- We want someone who will act with trust, honesty and transparency and will do what they say they will do.

Respect- We are looking for someone who will act inclusively and treat employees, suppliers and clients fairly, respectfully and courteously.

People- we want someone who will be integral to our business success, we will invest in you so you feel valued heard and supported.

This exciting opportunity offers the chance to be involved in all aspects of managing painting and decorating contracts from initial enquiry through to completion.

Key responsibilities would be:

• Surveying properties/structures for painting work
• Assessing painting projects, estimating the cost, labour resources, materials and time for completion
• Putting together well-presented, competitive tender packages for work
• Developing relationships with new and existing customers, making sure that all customers receive an excellent service
• Producing risk assessments and method statements for contracts, ensuring health and safety procedures are adhered to throughout projects
• Managing the contract from start to finish, ensuring that productivity targets and agreed quality and safety standards are met
• Managing project costs within budget to deliver planned financial result on completion Managing site-based operatives

You

A proactive instinct is required to fulfil the role successfully, to anticipate the actions required to deliver excellent painting contracts for our customers.

We ask that you possess the following skills and experience.

• Pricing of single painting projects of £2k to £200K in value
• Winning painting contracts through competitive tendering
• Managing site-based operatives
• Running painting contracts from start to finish
• Strong skills in financial analysis and commercial awareness
• Ability to manage a number of projects simultaneously with excellent organisational and prioritisation skills
• Ability to innovatively solve problems and work unsupervised in a busy environment
• Excellent social and communication skills to engage individuals and ensure co-operation to achieve the best possible outcomes
• Ability to build strong relationships with customers and the branch team and to act as a role model for the culture and values of Bagnalls
• Excellent written, numeracy, IT skills
• Ability to meet tight deadlines
• Full driving licence
• Good general standard of education including as a minimum English and Mathematics GCSE at grade A*-C or equivalent

Package

The exact package will be dependent on skills and experience. Basic salary will be in the region of £35000 - £45000 depending on experience, with potential to earn significant bonus based on performance. Fully expensed company car, life assurance, 8% contributory company pension scheme also included.

If your salary expectations are outside this range we would still like to hear from you.

Hours: Full time (40 hours per week) Monday to Friday, with occasional evening and weekend work required

Applications

Apply by CV and covering letter via the link below.

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