Senior Estimator; Civils

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

This role will be within our Water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.

Want to be a part of it?

You’ll provide essential estimating support for bids and contracts, ensuring robust pricing, risk management, and governance. You’ll advise senior management on commercial risks, liaise with suppliers and subcontractors to deliver accurate estimates, and assess terms against client requirements.

Prioritising your workload to meet business needs, you’ll communicate with customers and operational colleagues daily. You’ll identify and implement process improvements, as well as travel to sites to determine scopes of work when required.

• - Have you gained estimating experience in the water industry or hold a relevant degree? Other utilities experience is a bonus.
• - Are you commercially sharp, familiar with NEC contracts, and able to manage workloads under pressure?
• - Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• - Skilled at spotting opportunities and leading positive change.
• - Proficient with MS Office and estimating software such as Conquest or Causeway.

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• - Contributory pension scheme
• - Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• - Employee assistance programme
• - My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• - Life assurance
• - Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• - Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• - Reward and recognition scheme
• - Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!

In addition, this role offers;

• - Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• - My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• - Health Care Cash Plan, giving you and your family the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• - Private Healthcare - family cover
• - 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• - We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• - We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• - We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• - We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.