An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Estimator  to join our client in Wakefield. The company are an interior fit out contractor who work on retail fit out projects across the UK. They have a professional and friendly team which the successful applicant will join.

In this role, you will be working on a great range of projects from £20k to £1.5m mainly in the shopfitting sector including stores, cafes, restaurants and warehouses.

Duties include:

• Pricing / assisting in pricing competitive tenders and negotiated projects
• Liaising with supply chain, clients and all stakeholders in a professional manner
• Developing and building existing and new relationships with clients
• Understanding and reviewing construction drawings and construction programmes in a critical manner
• Procuring materials and labour to meet project construction programmes
• Preparing monthly valuations
• Keeping an up to date variation and forecasted final account tracker and communicating / issuing to the client in a timely manner
• Checking quantities and preparing take off’s.
• Managing supply chain payments
• Placing orders
• Understanding costs and value reconciliation (CVR’s), and forecasted margin across multiple projects
• Understanding commercial risks
• Ability to organise one’s own tasks with minimum supervision
• Managing projects through to completion, taking responsibility for their successful delivery.

Knowledge, skills, and experience:

• Experience working for a main contractor or shopfitter in an estimating capacity
• Strong communication skills
• Commercial acumen
• Full UK driving licence
• Excellent IT skills