Managing Estimator (Water North) in Leeds

About The Role

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.

Where will you be working?

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.

What will you be doing?

Estimating and bid pricing activities in M Group are governed by the Schedule of Delegated Authorities (SODA) and Work Winning Governance Procedures. The Managing Estimator will lead the estimating function for high-value framework contracts and complex project-specific tenders, ensuring pricing strategies are competitive, compliant, and commercially sound. This role requires a highly experienced, commercially astute professional with the ability to mentor Estimators, challenge assumptions, and influence winning strategies to support the Group's growth and margin targets.

Working closely with the Chief Estimator and Managing Estimators, this role sets the estimating strategy, systems, governance, and assurance frameworks. It leads estimating activities for high-value and strategic tenders, ensuring full compliance with SODA and Work Winning Governance procedures. Responsibilities include overseeing complex cost estimates, providing expert commercial and technical input to bid strategies, and reviewing and challenging tender submissions to ensure risks, opportunities, and contingencies are robustly addressed. Acting as the primary contact for estimating governance at tender reviews and stage gates, the role also drives continuous improvement in estimating processes, tools, and market intelligence.

What you’ll bring:

• Ability to manage workloads of the team.
• Demonstration that they can work with wider Estimating Community Leadership.
• Proven leadership in an estimating environment, with the ability to influence bid strategies.
• Advanced technical and commercial understanding of construction methods, market trends, and pricing approaches.
• Expertise in estimating software, cost modelling, and financial forecasting.
• Strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
• Exceptional analytical, organisational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to operate under pressure and meet demanding deadlines on multiple concurrent bids.
• Full UK driving license.

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 with a 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.

About us

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.