Senior Estimator in Eastbourne

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.

As our Senior Estimator, you'll be part of an estimating team reporting to our Managing Estimator South on the Framework to which you are assigned. You'll be responsible for delivering accurate and timely estimates across a mix of one-off projects, packages of work for both Infrastructure Clean and Wastewater. The location of the role could either be home based, office based or a combination of both depending on the work needs and home location.

You’ll provide estimating support with bids and contracts, ensuring robust pricing, risk management and governance. Assist and advise the Senior Management Team on commercial influences and risks around any bids. You'll need to liaise with suppliers and subcontractors to produce accurate and timely estimates/cost data. Ensure, where possible, supplier/subcontractor terms are back-to-back with the client requirements, and, if not, to impact assess any deviations. You'll be responsible for prioritising workload and assisting the team to produce results in a timely manner to meet business needs.

Day to day liaison with, and influencing of, key stakeholders, such as customers and operational colleagues. You’ll develop and implement changes to process, following understanding of a need to make changes to improve performance.

What you'll bring:

• Preferably degree qualified in engineering, Quantity Surveying, cost & planning or similar
• Experience within the water industry is essential, preferably within both water and wastewater environments, but also advantageous to have other utility estimating experience
• Preferably experience of delivering water and/or wastewater projects
• Ability and desire to identify opportunities and influence change
• Ability to react to constant workloads and delegate accordingly
• Commercial and contractual knowledge and understanding
• Able to follow process and governance
• Knowledge of estimating tools and techniques

What's in it for you?

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

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000s 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

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
• Private health care for you and your family plus Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend get rewarded for introducing people to us!
• Personal Accident Cover

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.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered. 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.