Groundworks Estimator – Know Your Muck from Your Money?

Groundworks Estimator – Know Your Muck from Your Money?

Tired of pricing jobs that make you question the meaning of life (and the sanity of the client)?

Quoting work drawn on the back of a fag packet?

Listening to Directors bang on about “margins” while you know full well they’ll cave the minute the client blinks?

If you’re a Groundworks Estimator who can spot a bodged take-off from 50 paces and who’s spent enough time with drainage drawings to develop PTSD from foul water runs—then read on.

This isn’t one of those vague, fluffy adverts full of “dynamic opportunities” and “fast-paced environments” (code for chaos and no handover).

This is a proper role.

For someone who’s done the miles. Seen the pricing horrors. Survived the value engineering chat that starts with “Can we just…” and ends in disaster.

You’ll be joining a contractor based in the West Midlands that actually gives a t***. Established. Financially stable. Repeat business galore – because they deliver a good product. They’ve got clients who pay on time (most of the time), projects that stack up, and senior people who actually listen (I know—mad, right?).

What you’ll be doing (aside from rolling your eyes at poor spec info):

• Pricing commercial groundworks and civils packages up to £5m

• Taking off quantities from actual drawings, not napkins

• Building bills, talking to supply chain, making sure the programme isn’t written in crayon

• Helping win work that’s winnable—not pipe dreams from desperate BD bods

• Sitting in meetings where people turn up on time and know what the job is (a rare joy)

What you won’t be doing:

• Holding the fort while the boss is on a 3-week golf tour of Marbella

• Repricing the same job five times because “the client might still come back”

• Picking up work for every other Estimator who’s mysteriously “on holiday” during bid week

• Wondering who’s even running the job once it’s won

What’s in it for you:

• A good salary that won’t make you spit out your tea

• A team with low turnover and even lower tolerance for nonsense

• A steady pipeline of work that doesn’t involve bidding for stuff you’ve got no chance of winning

• Directors who don’t have a LinkedIn profile that reads like a midlife crisis

• Flexibility, autonomy, and the chance to be listened to. Properly.

Look—if you’re after breakout rooms, ping pong tables, kombucha on tap, and avocado-frappa-god knows what – this is not it.

But if you want to price work with decent drawings, for decent clients, in a firm that isn’t constantly chasing its own tail—then you might’ve just found your home.

So…

Drop your CV, or just your name and a time to talk. We’re not precious. But we are serious.

Don’t worry if you haven’t got an up to date CV it’s not important for now. Everyone who gets in touch will get a response.

Civils Senior Talent and our partner clients are equal opportunity employers.