Senior Estimator

MTR Partnership; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

MTR Partnership in Manchester seeks an experienced Senior Estimator to bolster the pre-construction team. You will handle tender enquiries, assess risk, and lead cost planning from enquiry to tender settlement, with a focus on value engineering.

You will base in or commute to Cheshire, with hybrid working allowing two days remote per week as the team continues to deliver landmark projects across the North West.

Qualifications

• Experience as Estimator or Senior Estimator for a building contractor.
• Strong awareness of the North West England market and supply chain.
• Good understanding of value engineering and cost planning.

Responsibilities

• Receive tender enquiries and present to Directors for bid decisions.
• Complete risk register and coordinate pre-construction inputs.
• Issue and vet sub-enquiries; conduct site visits for tendering.
• Attend tender review meetings and drive tender through adjudication.
• Identify value engineering opportunities and negotiate post-tender terms.

Skills

Senior Estimator

Tendering

Pre-construction

Value engineering

Commercial awareness

North West market knowledge

Communication skills

Tools

Conquest

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Company:

A leading national Construction Group whose NW Regional Construction team would deliver projects for clients around Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Merseyside and Lancashire. Current projects are valued up to £100 Million and successfully completed schemes have been in the commercial, industrial, residential, education, health, blue light and leisure sectors.

They secure work via procurement Frameworks and a significant proportion of their turnover comes via repeat business from blue chip clients.

They have been responsible for constructing a number of high profile, iconic buildings in the NorthWest and are in a great position to continue their growth in 2026-7 due to recent project awards/starts and a pipeline that is really strong.

They are cash rich, typically make good margins on their projects, have an excellent supplychain who they pay promptly and treat with respect (we know this from our own experience of working with them!) and staff turnover is very low.

The Position:

This is a great opportunity to join one of the best regarded contractors in the North West as they are now in a position to recruit an experienced Senior Estimator to bolster their current team.

You will be tasked with receiving tender enquiries and presenting the details to the Directors and agreeing to bid or not, complete the risk register, work with the rest of the pre con team to meet deadlines, sending out and vetting subcontract enquiries, conducting site visits, attending tender review meetings, building up the tender through to tender adjudication and settlement whilst looking for value engineering opportunities, present the financial elements of the tender in line with the clients' specification and help with post tender negotiations.

You:

To take on this role you will need to have worked as an Estimator or Senior Estimator for a Building Contractor helping to secure medium to large valued projects (£15 Million+) who has areally good knowledge of the market and supply chain in the North West of England.

You will be based in or be able to commute to Cheshire daily.

Commercially aware with an understanding of value engineering.

Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Office Packages and ideally experience of using Conquest.

Good verbal and written communication skills.

Rewards:

If successful you will be joining a really successful, small, close knit pre-construction team working in a profitable regional office who are extremely well regarded by the rest of the Group.

The Estimating Manager will be stepping into a broader preconstruction management role in a year or so's time so there is the opportunity to take over as the NW Estimating Manager for someone.

They offer a good salary and benefits package, and are securing varied and significant, landmark projects in the region.

They have a good employee development programme.

They are a forward-thinking contractor whose pre-construction team have a positive and successful approach to work winning.

They provide a challenging and supportive environment in which to work.
They also offer hybrid working, their team typically work from home 2 days a week.