Estimator - Housing Refurbishment

  • Nelson Permanent Placements
  • City, Birmingham
  • Oct 23, 2025
Full time Construction

Job Description

NPP are recruiting for an estimator on behalf of our client an established, market leading, social housing refurbishment contractor with a view to providing high quality cost estimates in a timely manner.

The role is to support the regional director, identifying risks and ensuring commercial opportunities are realised.

Responsibilities

  • Assisting in the vetting of bid documentation
  • Carrying out site visits to gain knowledge of projects and works
  • Carry out detailed reviews of ITT documents
  • Liaising with other departments to gain information to be used to it's full potential
  • Preparing supplier and sub-contractor enquiries
  • Provision of accurate estimates and pre-acquisition studies
  • Using accurate enquiries from sub-contractors to assist the formulation of bids using the evaluate estimating system
  • Reviewing market costs
  • Mitigating risks
  • Provision of resource analysis
  • Complying and upholding the companies policies, procedures and values
  • Maintaining and updating the materials and sub-contractor database information in liaison with management
  • Vetting of bid documentation

The ideal candidate will have a construction relevant qualification and experience in a estimators role. Experience of social housing refurb or retrofit contracts would be ideal.