Estimating & Compliance Manager - Head Office

Pickerings Hire; Moira; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading supplier of temporary buildings is seeking an Estimating and Compliance Manager to ensure modular building solutions are compliant and commercially viable. This role involves pricing modular solutions, managing compliance, and providing technical assurance across projects. The ideal candidate will have a background in modular construction, strong commercial acumen, and proven stakeholder management skills. Benefits include a competitive salary, company car, and generous holidays.

Benefits

Competitive salary and annual bonus

Company car

33 days holidays

Company pension and life assurance schemes

Qualifications

• Experience in modular construction or off-site building solutions.
• Strong commercial acumen with estimating and contract interpretation experience.
• Background in engineering, construction, or technical design.

Responsibilities

• Prepare pricing for modular building projects.
• Estimate compliance-driven requirements.
• Support Sales with commercially viable proposals.
• Provide technical and commercial guidance.

Skills

Modular construction knowledge

Estimating and pricing experience

Building regulations understanding

Stakeholder management skills

Analytical and detail-focused

Communication skills

Job description

The Estimating and Compliance Manager ensures modular building solutions are compliant, commercially viable, and deliverable. Working across Sales, Depots, and Project teams, the role is responsible for pricing modular solutions for sale and hire, managing compliance within layouts, supporting contract obligations, and controlling costs from bid through delivery. The role provides technical and commercial assurance, ensuring solutions meet regulatory, contractual, and operational requirements while protecting margin.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and support pricing for modular building sale and hire projects
• Estimate additional, bespoke, and compliance-driven requirements
• Develop and review layouts to ensure regulatory and contractual compliance
• Support Sales with technically robust, commercially viable proposals
• Identify assumptions, exclusions, risks, and opportunities at bid stage
• Review specifications, employer's requirements, and contract documentation
• Support bid clarifications, value engineering, and change control
• Act as the technical and commercial link between Sales, Projects, Depots, and Operations
• Support live projects through cost control, variance management, and valuation of variations
• Challenge scope changes and manage associated commercial impacts
• Provide consistent technical and commercial guidance across the business
• Contribute to continuous improvement and standardisation of layouts, pricing, and compliant solutions

Qualifications

• Experience in modular construction, MMC, or off-site building solutions
• Strong commercial acumen, with experience in estimating, pricing, and contract interpretation
• Working knowledge of building regulations and compliance
• Background in engineering, construction, or technical design
• Experience across pre-contract and post-award project phases
• Familiar with hire models and temporary or semi-permanent buildings
• Proven stakeholder management and communication skills
• Confident working autonomously and influencing at multiple levels
• Organised, analytical, detail-focused, and solutions-driven

About the Company

Pickerings is a leading supplier of high-quality temporary buildings. We design and supply solutions to a diverse customer base, including schools needing extra classrooms, commercial businesses needing additional office space and construction sites needing a complex of offices and welfare facilities.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and annual bonus
• Company car
• 33 days holidays, inclusive of public holidays and a festive shut-down period
• Company pension and life assurance schemes