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Knights Construction are a leading construction company that specialise in Agriculture, Build, Civils and flooring.

The strength of our organisation lies in the quality of the people we work with. We’re proud to employ the most talented, driven individuals within the construction sector and due to an ever-increasing workload we are now looking to strengthen our Commercial team.

With strong business on the books and many new and exciting projects in the pipeline, this is a fantastic opportunity to join a forward moving and progressive company.

We are looking for an Estimator to join our team on a temporary basis for approximately one month and assist in the pricing of various types of tenders. Our primary workload is civils and industrial based.

**Estimator (Temporary-Freelance) - Knights Construction Group**

**Duties & Responsibilities**
- Act as Lead Estimator reporting directly to the Commercial Director.
- Prepare competitive and compliant bids for tenders varying in nature.
- Managing time carefully and prioritising effectively to ensure all bid deadlines are achieved.
- Work closely with the Project teams to understand customer drivers and develop winning strategies for bids.
- Ensure tenders are evaluated and tender action plans prepared in line with the Bid strategy, estimating guidelines and directives on margin and cost and are submitted to deadlines.
- Ensure prices are compiled in a thorough, logical and consistent manner and ensuring the finalised estimate is properly signed off in accordance with Procedures.
- Attend meetings with the Construction, Delivery, Commercial or Design teams as required both during and post tender.
- Provide the Commercial team with information and support so they can agree final terms and sign off on the contract.
- Ensure risk and opportunities are identified and properly evaluated to develop a winning submission.

**Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills & Experience**
- Ideally hold a construction-based degree
- Have a construction background of civils/groundworks, with extensive experience in
estimating
- Be thorough, thoughtful, analytical in your approach to pricing tenders.
- Be confident, engaging, and have a resilient personality
- Be hard working and determined
- Be a strong communicator with the ability to tailor your approach to each individual customer
- Keen to learn about existing and new technologies and embrace company training
- Build effective relationships within the relevant Knights teams to ensure project implementation is delivered efficiently and effectively
- Be comfortable managing and prioritising your own workload - you’ve got outstanding organisational/time management skills
- Be detail-orientated with a proactive, positive and solutions orientated approach - you’re a confident problem solver
- Confident in use of Microsoft Office - Word, Outlook and Excel
- Ability to use Conquest estimating software.

**Employment Type**: Temporary (1 Month) Freelance

**Location**: Wrexham Head Office

**Salary**:£300 + per day (negotiable dependent on experience)

**Additional Benefits**:

- Staff Discount at Hospitality Venues
- Employee Referral Programme

Knights Construction Group does not accept speculative or unsolicited CVs from Recruitment Agencies.

Any unsolicited CVs received will be treated as the property of Knight Construction Group and Terms & Conditions associated with the use of such CVs will be considered null and void.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary contract, Fixed term contract, Freelance
Contract length: 1 month

**Salary**: From £300.00 per day

**Benefits**:

- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- WREXHAM: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Estimating: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: One location