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Company Overview REIDglazing design, manufacture and install architectural glazing including windows, doors, curtain walling, louvres and solar shading (brise soleil). With more than 30 years’ experience in the UK and worldwide as the inhouse glazing division of REIDsteel, working as part of an integrated project or on a stand-alone basis directly for main contractors. Our integrated projects are structurally designed, fabricated and erected by our structural steel engineering sister company REIDsteel. They have been manufacturing and erecting large commercial buildings, aircraft hangars, grandstands, bridges, car parks and many other structures in the UK and worldwide for over 100 years. We operate from our site in Christchurch which incorporates our offices and manufacturing facility, close to motorway, road and rail links. We are a fantastic team of around 120 people. Role Overview As a result of team growth and a strategy to pursue more glazing-only projects, we have a vacancy for a Business Development Manager, working within our busy Glazing discipline. Your role will be pivotal in generating leads, fostering client relationships, and ensuring seamless service throughout the process. You will be responsible for growing our sales, and building and maintaining relationships with main contractors to be on their tender list for all upcoming projects. Experience within the glazing industry in a similar role is desirable Main Duties and Responsibilities Complying with all relevant Company Health, Safety and Environmental policies. Working in accordance with our Company Values. Taking an inclusive, collaborative and creative approach to winning business. Utilising prospecting tools, historical data, and marketing campaigns to generate leads. Cultivating long-term professional relationships with clients and decision makers. Identifying and building relationships with main contractors. Promoting and strengthening our brand. Nurturing leads and converting them into orders. Managing the sales funnel and working to achieve sales targets. Negotiate terms with clients, ensuring optimal margins and contract conditions. Staying informed about industry trends, market conditions, and gathering pricing feedback on submitted quotations. Possessing a good understanding of the contractual process and project risk. Having a detailed market awareness of customers, competitors and suppliers. Key Skills Previous business development experience in glazing sector is desirable. Technical ability to understand architectural drawings. Background in sales with expertise in lead generation, relationship building, and phone-based account management. Persistence and resilience in navigating the sales process. Commercially savvy. Excellent communicator. Excellent negotiation skills. Collaborative team player. Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office The above list is not exhaustive, but it covers the main duties of the Glazing Business Development Manager. There may be other duties, not mentioned here, which become part of the job. Please apply to hr@reidsteel.co.uk Return to Employment Opportunities
Role Overview To support the Company’s ongoing growth strategy, we have a vacancy for Business Development Manager, working within our busy Sales team. Reporting directly to the Sales Director, you will seek opportunities to tender, work closely with our bid managers to create a competitive bid to meet the clients’ requirements and to ultimately win the contract. Being proactive in building and maintaining strong relationships is key to this role. International travel is required to attend trade fairs and meet customers. Experience within the steel and/or cladding industry in a similar role is desirable although associated markets would be considered. Experience of working in a structured and targeted way to recognise opportunities and pursue new markets, new customers and new relationships if desirable. Main Duties and Responsibilities Complying with all relevant Company Health, Safety and Environmental policies. Working in accordance with our Company Values. Taking an inclusive, collaborative and creative approach to winning business. Researching and understanding opportunities in your allocated market/s. With the Sales Director, defining a strategy for targeting your allocated market/s. Fulfilling that plan. Proactively maintaining contact with current and new customers to understand their needs, the way their business operates, the potential for opportunities and keeping them informed of our expertise. Working with bid managers to ensure proposals fit with client expectations and achieve our corporate goals, objectives and targets. Being client facing; customer visits and some travel will be expected from time to time. Possessing a good understanding of the contractual process and project risk. Key Skills Attention to detail – to ensure the correct pieces are supplied to workshops. Numerate – to identify steel sections, check lists and labels. Organised – be able to look ahead to the items required to ensure timely supply to the workshops. Team player – able to help out and support as required. Key Experience Excellent communicator – listening skills to really understand the customer, ability to translate the customers’ requirements to the bid team. Excellent negotiation skills – to set out and sell what we have to offer and respond to the customers’ expectations. Collaborative team player – working closely with the wider team to win the project/s. Excellent time management – to juggle multiple customers and projects effectively. Technical ability to understand engineering drawings. Commercial awareness. The above list is not exhaustive, but it covers the main duties of the Business Development Manager. There may be other duties, not mentioned here, which become part of the job. Please apply to hr@reidsteel.co.uk Return to Employment Opportunities
To support our busy project management function, we have created a vacancy for an experienced QS.
Reporting to our Head of Project Management, you’ll provide real time cost data for all elements of our projects and at each stage of the project lifecycle, facilitating effective decision making and contributing to the overall success of our projects.
Role Overview This is a great opportunity for an established Structural Engineer to join our expanding Design team. You will ideally have 5 years’ post graduate experience and be a Chartered Member of the IStructE or working towards chartership. As Structural Engineer, you will be expected to assist bid management in the preparation of offers; the Drawing Office in the detailing of the building elements; site management in the safe methods of building; and the end clients with a view to meeting the provisions of our contract and encouraging them to come back to us. This is a demanding, hands-on structural engineering position. We are a well-established company and have a large export market, so the ability to use a variety of codes and design criteria is important. Main Duties and Responsibilities Complying with all relevant Company Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental policies. Conceptual design – working in partnership with the sales team. Analysis design – using linear element or finite element software. Detail design – of all connections, bolts and welds. Preparing design calculations for draughtspeople and building control. Taking a leading role in preparing the CDM risk register for each building. Assisting with the preparation of safe erection methods. Attending meetings, both internal and client facing, as required. Optimising designs to produce structures that are safe, easy to draw, manufacture, ship and erect as well as being cost effective. Assisting with the preparation of operation and maintenance manuals for the client. Key Skills MIStructE or working towards chartership. Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team to meet specification, budget and programme as well as resolve any challenges that arise. CAD software. In depth knowledge of structural analysis concepts. Seismic design experience. Linear element or finite element analysis experience. Surveying experience. The above list is not exhaustive but it covers the main duties of the role. There may be other duties, not mentioned here, which become part of the job. Please apply to hr@reidsteel.co.uk Return to Employment Opportunities
Role Overview To support the Company’s ongoing growth and drive to increase operational efficiencies, we are seeking a Material Handler to join our manufacturing facility. You’ll assist in pre-fabrication activities in our stockyard and material handling between our workshops, with the opportunity as you progress to learn to use our CNC machines and shotblaster. This will support the smooth running of our fabrication/welding process. A safety conscious, hardworking team player who is keen to learn would be the ideal candidate. We’ll invest in your training, including forklift truck, straddle carrier and overhead gantry crane operations. There may be future opportunities to train to use our steel processing equipment including our robotic plasma. Main Duties and Responsibilities Complying with all relevant Company Health, Safety and Environmental policies. Unloading steel sections from delivery vehicles. Movement of steel sections and fittings into our workshops, ensuring that the correct pieces are delivered as required. Safe use of forklift trucks, straddle carrier and overhead gantry cranes. Banksman duties. Ensuring that the workshop is kept clean and tidy. Support in other areas of production as required. Working in accordance with our Company Values. Key Skills Attention to detail – to ensure the correct pieces are supplied to workshops. Numerate – to identify steel sections, check lists and labels. Organised – be able to look ahead to the items required to ensure timely supply to the workshops. Team player – able to help out and support as required. Key Experience Experience in a structural steel or general manufacturing environment desirable. The above list is not exhaustive, but it covers the main duties of the Material Handler. There may be other duties, not mentioned here, which become part of the job. Please apply to hr@reidsteel.co.uk Return to Employment Opportunities
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The managing director of a UK firm which uses British Steel products to build structures worldwide has written to every MP calling for the company to be nationalised. Simon Boyd, of structural steel firm REIDsteel, says action must be taken urgently to bring the business into public ownership. He has written to all 650 members of parliament – including Secretary of State for Business and Trade Jonathan Reynolds and Prime Minister Keir Starmer. His call comes after British Steel opened a consultation on the closure of the country’s remaining two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe. Simon writes: “Action must be taken urgently to save British Steel - and that means taking the company into public ownership, where it belongs.” He adds: “High grade steel made in blast furnaces is critical for use in our defence, aerospace and other industries as well as for our national infrastructure and economy. “There is no time to lose. The blast furnaces will close as soon as June this year, if the reports are true that the Chinese owners have stopped the forward order of raw materials; making the closure a fait accompli. “If British Steel closes its blast furnaces, the UK will be forced to rely on imported steel. Steelmaking in the UK is essential to our manufacturing base, our security and infrastructure.” The UK steel industry contributes £4.2bn to the UK economy and supports 75,000 jobs. Simon has written to the MPs as part of his Save British Steel campaign. He writes: “We must retain and then replace our blast furnaces with new modern blast furnaces and production technology and further invest in Electric Arc Furnaces for the future.” British Steel has launched a consultation on the proposed closure of its two blast furnaces at Scunthorpe, putting up to 2,700 jobs at risk. Options include ending operations by early June, in September, or at a later date. Dorset-based REIDsteel uses British Steel in its design, manufacture and erection of steel structures, including bridges, aircraft hangars and airports, around the world. It used British Steel in a dual-cantilever hangar at Biggin Hill Airport – the largest to be built for more than 50 years - which won a Structural Steel Design Award in 2022. The company was the first steelwork contractor to sign the UK Steel Charter and make British Steel its primary supplier.