Mechanical Estimating Manager

Kane Group are an established, and successful multi-disciplinary building-services solution contractor, with our Head Office based in Banbridge, Northern Ireland.

We're an innovative, forward-thinking company with continued steady growth serving residential, hospitality, education, commercial and healthcare sectors with offices in Northern Ireland, London, Birmingham, Glasgow and the Republic of Ireland.

We are actively seeking a Mechanical Estimating Manager to join our team in our Head Office in Banbridge, Northern Ireland.

• Review and interpret tender documentation, ensuring scope, risks, assumptions, exclusions and opportunities are identified and communicated to the Bid Manager and wider bid team.
• Allocate tenders across the estimating team, ensuring appropriate resource and workload balance to deliver high-quality estimates on time.
• Ensure the Estimating team prepare tender deliverables in line with client and Invitation to Tender (ITT) requirements and internal procedures.
• Review, challenge and approve (internally) estimates prepared by the estimating team to ensure accuracy, consistency, compliance and alignment with company estimating standards prior to internal adjudication with the Bid Manager.
• Challenge pricing assumptions, exclusions, risk allowances, and value engineering proposals.

• Maintain oversight of estimating systems ensuring data accuracy.
• Ensure estimating activities are conducted in accordance with company procedures and risk governance requirements.
• Attend and contribute to pre-tender, mid-tender, bid reviews, progress updates and adjudications.
• Support internal and external audits relating to estimating activities.

• Work with the Procurement Department to support the mechanical supply chain strategy by maintaining and developing relationships with preferred suppliers, specialist subcontractors and supply and fit subcontractors/partners, ensuring competitive and reliable supply chain engagement during tender activities.
• Collaborate with pre-construction, design, commercial, and other stakeholders to ensure estimates are aligned and meet client and company requirements.
• Support senior estimators in resolving complex technical and commercial supply chain issues.
• Represent the business at mid‑tender, post‑tender, and key client meetings where required.
• Support bid adjudications and senior management reviews presenting estimating assumptions, risk allowances, exclusions and pricing recommendations.
• Support the Bid Manager with post-tender clarifications, value engineering proposals and revised pricing requirements, ensuring estimating outputs remain accurate, commercially robust and aligned with client requirements.
• Contribute to post-bid reviews and implement agreed improvements within the estimating function to enhance estimating quality, consistency and tender performance.

• Lead, manage and develop the mechanical estimating team, setting objectives, monitoring performance and building capability through coaching, mentoring and structured development.
• Provide technical and commercial leadership across the estimating team and act as the primary point of escalation for complex mechanical estimating and tender-related matters.
• Identify training and development needs across the estimating team and support initiatives that improve individual and team performance.

• Relevant qualification in building services, construction, engineering or a related discipline - whether through degree, HNC/HND, apprenticeship, trade background, or equivalent vocational route.

• 5+ years’ experience in the building services and/or construction industry…