Estimator

We are currently recruiting for an Estimator to join our Construction Wales & West business. We deliver projects across multiple sectors, and this will be a hybrid role with a mix of office-based work in our Cardiff office and remote working. It's an exciting time to join our business, which has a solid current workbook, coupled with a strong pipeline portfolio for the next 2 to 3 years and beyond.

As the successful Estimator, you will calculate the build cost for our customers, ensuring we deliver the right net cost, on time, and to the highest quality for cost accuracy. You will collaborate with the wider preconstruction team and supply chain partners to ensure that we provide an accurate cost in line with the customer's requirements, project scope and current legislation. Ensuring the service and standards we provide place customer value at the forefront of delivering a perfect product.

Some of the key duties/responsibilities will include:

Undertake project take-offs accurately and efficiently to produce cost plans and bills of quantities with a high degree of commercial and technical knowledge to the required level of detail (SMM7) and in accordance with the bid timescales.
Ensure that all costs on the project are in accordance with the project scope, the customer's requirements and current legislation.
Collaborate with the wider preconstruction team to secure and convert tender projects.
Create robust accurate cost plans through the various design gateways up to target price.
Guide the design team and inform the customer with respect to affordability.
Use technical experience to identify opportunities and risks along with solutions to add value.
Support the design discipline by costing change control items as identified and track through the RIBA Stages.
Provide a complete and robust cost information pack during the substantiation process to the commercial build team at handover, to include completed comparisons, bills of quantities, tender book and quotations.
Collaborate with the design lead to capture and include design fees in the tender summary book (consultants, statutory authorities, surveys, schedules, and the like).
Assist in the change control process, identifying design changes between RIBA stages, advising on the impact of the change and approximate cost.
Carry out cost assessments on alternative design solutions to inform the final design and project/customer budget.Essential Criteria

Experience of successfully completing framework & two stage style estimating jobs
Experience of taking off quantities up to SMM7 across a variety of works packages
Have experience of various construction methods
Experience of controlling costs, timing and quality in line with targets
Experience of reading and accurately interpreting drawings and technical specifications
Excellent standard of mathematical abilityDesirable Criteria

Minimum relevant level 4 qualification (HNC/NVQ4 etc)
Relevant degree
Use Conquest Estimating System or similar
Working towards MCIOB/RICSAdditional Information

Willmott Dixon embraces diversity in the workplace and will consider flexible and agile working.

We are a disability confident employer.

Benefits: In return we reward our people generously with a competitive package that gives you flexible benefits to fit your lifestyle and priorities. This includes but is not limited to, an enhanced pension scheme, fully discounted private medical, life assurance, incentive bonus and a car scheme which will make us a market leader in sustainable company travel. Applicable roles will benefit from a motoring expenditure allowance (MEA) and everyone can access a new generation of low carbon and electric cars via the Willmott Dixon run car leasing scheme.

About Us

With over 170 years of rich history, Willmott Dixon's purpose is beyond profit; delivering brilliant buildings, transforming lives, strengthening communities and enhancing the environment so our world is fit for future generations. Ensuring that we add lasting value to the neighbourhoods we work in; our values, people, innovation, partnerships and focus on sustainability has allowed us to build a successful and solid privately owned business where our people can thrive.

Willmott Dixon was recognised by The Sunday Times as one of the Top 10 "Big" Companies to Work For in 2025, named among the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality in 2024, and ranked in the Top Five of Europe's 1,000 best workplaces by the Financial Times in 2025. Willmott Dixon is also the first major contractor and developer to win a King's Award for Enterprise in the category of sustainable development