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Assistant Estimator
Willmott Dixon
Hitchin, GBR
Full-time
Entry
Hybrid
Discovered 2 weeks ago
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Willmott Dixon are currently recruiting for an Assistant Estimator to join our London and East construction business. Based in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, we deliver projects across multiple sectors within north London, the northern home counties and East Anglia. This will be a hybrid role with a mix of remote and office-based working.
As an Assistant Estimator you will support our preconstruction team with calculating 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 our 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.
An Assistant Estimator will ensure the service and standards we provide place customer value at the forefront of delivering a perfect product.
• Assist with creating robust accurate cost plans through the various design gateways up to target price.
• Assist with guiding the design team and inform the customer with respect to affordability.
• Use technical experience to assist in identifying opportunities and risks along with solutions to add value.
• Collaborate with the project team to identify and value alternative design solutions where required and present to the customer for review.
• Assist in developing a procurement strategy to meet the needs of the project.
• Seek to gain knowledge of the key trades packages.
• Collaborate with the design team by assisting the costing changes being tracked through the change control process.
• Broadening your knowledge of contractual and framework requirements.
• Ensure you understand the estimating system (Conquest) and its functionality.
• Assist with completion of standard documentation.
• Help provide a detailed cost information package to the commercial build team at handover to include completed comparisons, bills of quantities, tender book, and quotations.
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