Estimator/Project Administrator

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ASSA ABLOY’s Peninsular Fire Doors is hiring an Estimator / Project Administrator for a full-time on-site role in Clontarf, QLD. You will support pricing, tender analysis, and end-to-end project coordination for metal door frames, fire doors and timber doors, helping to win work and deliver on customer promises. Expect to review drawings, prepare targeted proposals, manage documentation and CRM, respond to RFI/RFQ, coordinate manufacturing orders and installation planning, and maintain strong client relationships. The ideal candidate has construction administration and project management experience, proficiency with Microsoft Office, excellent communication, and meticulous attention to detail. Tips: quantify tender successes, demonstrate collaboration with architects and subcontractors, and show how you stay organized and learn product knowledge quickly.

About Us

ASSA ABLOY is the global leader in door-opening solutions, dedicated to satisfying end-user needs for security, safety and convenience. With offices in over 70 countries, we are represented in all major regions within both mature and emerging markets. Our iconic brands, such as Lockwood, Abloy, Whitco and Yale, are driven by innovation and have been recognised with ASSA ABLOY’s inclusion in Forbes’ Top 100 most innovative companies list, on four separate occasions.

Peninsular Fire Doors offers the broad range of commercial doors and frames as well as Door Solutions and is part of the ASSA ABLOY group. We work with architects, builders, and building owners to deliver doors and door solutions.

About The Role

Playing an integral role, the Estimator / Project Administrator will be report to the Commercial Manager based on-site in Clontarf, QLD. This role is well supported by a high-performing team professionals and will require you to focus on understanding the customer needs, quoting, and closing the sale. Working in a fast-paced environment, promoting, selling and securing orders from both current and prospective clients. 

• Answer telephone and emails prompt and resolve customer enquiries, delivering excellence in customer service
• Document control, register projects for quoting, orders and 
• Maintain and update phone lists and various site registers / logs
• Keep up to date on product and process knowledge
• Review project tender requests, summarise the overall requirements and provide accurate pricing.
• Prepare and present targeted project pricing to deliver a comprehensive and professional proposal to the client (source material and or external pricing).
• Submit pricing variations as required
• Analyse architectural drawings and specifications to determine correct frames / Doors and specification.
• Attend to inbound leads, customer RFI and RFQ’s in a timely manner.
• Contributing to achieving sales targets, working with the team and following up on quotes and closing sales.
• Maintaining a close, regular and professional working relationship with existing and prospective customers to maximise market share.
• Review the project information, pricing and client requirements
• Determine product information from plans, specification, schedules and associated information
• Establish a project program for detailing, manufacture delivery and (if required) installation
• Prepare manufacture orders (job sheets) with all required information to enable manufacture
• Ensure goods are manufactured and delivered to the client as planned
• Establish and manage subcontract site installation and costs
• Action client site instructions, raise variation requests as required and follow up approvals
• Reconcile project sales and costs, resolve variances and obtain client deed of release
• Maintain and keep the CRM dated

About you

We are seeking someone who has strong attention to detail, effective communication skills, and the ability to work well with systems and procedures. To be successful in this role you will have the following

• Substantial level of skill in the administration and management of construction projects in respect to the supply and installation Metal Door Frames, Fire Doors and Timber Doors
• Ability to communicate satisfactorily with management, clients, specifiers and subcontractors
• Sound level of skill in the use of personal computers and programs
• Demonstrated experience using Microsoft Office applications
• Strong administration skills – organised, thorough, systems orientated with meticulous attention to detail
• Previous experience in Manufacturing and Sales will be highly regarded

In Return

You will be part of a vibrant and motivated team focused on delivering quality services to internal and external customers while having some fun along the way.  As a global company there are opportunities for you to progress within the business. We have a great organisational culture, a competitive salary and training for the successful candidate.

We are the ASSA ABLOY Group
Our people have made us the global leader in access solutions. In return, we open doors for them wherever they go. With nearly 63,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries, we help billions of people experience a more open world. Our innovations make all sorts of spaces – physical and virtual – safer, more secure, and easier to access. 

As an employer, we value results – not titles, or backgrounds. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally.

As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.