Design Estimator - Smart Infrastructure Solutions

 Location: UK - Mobile England | Job-ID: 217120 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: Sales & Pre-Sales & Alliances

Life on the team

Join Computacenter’s highly successful Smart Infrastructure team in a key role supporting large-scale customer projects across the UK. You’ll work closely with Solution Specialists, Account Teams, and strategic partners to shape compliant, commercially sound designs across structured cabling and smart building technologies.

This is a visible role with the opportunity to influence bids, support major tenders, and contribute to high-value infrastructure programmes.

What you'll do

• Produce accurate design estimates and bid responses for structured cabling, racks, PDUs, containment, WiFi, CCTV, and AV/MTR solutions
• Support account teams with solution design, pricing, and customer engagement
• Ensure bids are delivered using best practice (BICSI and manufacturer guidelines)
• Create handover packs, cabling schedules, wall elevations, schematics, and installation documentation
• Own and refine cost models, applying value engineering to maximise margin
• Provide technical governance, risk management, and commercial assurance across opportunities
• Support customer presentations and mid/post-bid discussions

What you’ll need

• Strong experience in structured cabling design and estimation (essential)
• Knowledge of containment/pathway design and survey validation
• Understanding of IP-connected solutions including WiFi, CCTV, AV, and meeting room technology
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) design and cabling principles
• CAD and Bluebeam experience, plus strong Excel/Office skills
• Minimum two manufacturer design accreditations (e.g. Corning, Panduit, Systimax, Nexans/Aginode)
• Commercial confidence (costing, margins, risk awareness), ideally with experience on £500K+ bids
• Willingness to work towards BICSI (RCDD/CDCDP) or relevant AV/WiFi/CCTV certifications

About us

We are a leading independent technology and services provider, trusted by large corporate and public sector organisations. We are a responsible business that believes in winning together for our people and our planet. We help our customers to source, transform and manage their technology infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling people and their business.

Our business may be about technology, but first of all it’s about people

With over 20,000 people across 22 countries, we are proud of our inclusive culture - where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and truly belong.

As an equal opportunities employer, we’re committed to ensuring fair and equal access to opportunities for all. Your application will be considered on its merits, regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, or any other characteristics protected by law. What matters most to us is that you share our vision and values, and bring the experience and skills we’re looking for.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We welcome applications from disabled people and accept applications in alternative formats. We also guarantee to interview applicants who have a disability.

If you share our values and want to make a meaningful impact in a supportive, forward-thinking environment - we’d love to hear from you!