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 Division working with water and waste water.
Want to be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
As our Chief Estimator you'll oversee and manage an estimating team and function in M Group Water reporting to the Executive Director. You'll ensure competence, capacity and compliance of a world class estimating function that supports and delivers against our values and business plan.
You'll be responsible for leading and developing the Estimating function for M Group water. Ensuring quality, timely delivery and alignment with governance. Support strategic bids, promote collaboration across teams and drive continuous improvement. You'll oversee resources, reporting , and talent development.
You'll champion health, safety, wellbeing, and environmental standards. Build string client relationships, support business planning and ensure customer satisfaction. Encourage a positive, inclusive culture and robust risk management. Work closely with leadership to meet commercial goals and uphold M Group water values.
What you’ll bring
- A deep knowledge of estimating tools, techniques and best practices especially in utilities or infrastructure sectors.
- An Ability to assess bids, manage risk, and ensure robust pricing and governance.
- Experience in managing strategic bids, forecasting workloads and prioritising tasks effectively.
- Competence in producing monthly reports, opportunity tracking and cost analysis.
- Familiarity with business management systems, governance procedures and continuous improvement methodologies
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 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
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
- 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.
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