Senior Estimator

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Estimator / Senior Cost Planner to join our Construction South division, based out of our Dartford office in a full-time permanent capacity.

Here at Willmott Dixon we deliver projects across multiple sectors, including Education, Leisure, Health, Blue Light, Residential and Commercial. This will be a hybrid role with a mix of office-based and remote working. It's an exciting time to join our business, which has a very healthy current workbook, with a strong pipeline portfolio for the next 2 to 3 years+.

As the successful Senior 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.

Essential criteria

• Strong numeracy skills and mathematical ability
• Prior experience with various construction methods, forms of contract, tendering processes
• Proven experience in controlling costs, timing and quality in line with targets
• Solid experience in reading and accurately interpreting drawings and technical specifications
• Strong end to end tendering in either single or two stage
• Conquest or similar used for tendering
• Cost planning experience
• Measurement – Cost X or Bluebeam
• Strong negotiation skills with supply chain and customer/clients
• MS Excel
• HND or Degree

Desirable Criteria

• Formal degree in Surveying or Construction Management

Benefits

We reward our people generously with a competitive salary and a market-leading benefits package that gives you flexible benefits to fit your lifestyle and priorities. This includes but is not limited to, an enhanced pension scheme, discounted or full 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.

Additional Information

Willmott Dixon embraces diversity in the workplace and will consider flexible and agile working. We are a disability-confident employer.

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.