Head of Estimating

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Lanes Group

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1001 - 5000 employees

Infrastructure • Utilities • Environmental

Lanes Group is the UK's leading utilities and infrastructure delivery partner, providing comprehensive solutions to support essential infrastructure. With a strong focus on innovation, safety, and customer satisfaction, they ensure that critical utilities operate efficiently and effectively. As part of their commitment to sustainability, Lanes Group aims to attain climate positivity and promote equality, diversity, and inclusion by 2030.

📋 Description

• Provide strategic leadership to the Estimating function • Deliver accurate, competitive, and commercially robust estimates and bids across Clean Water and Wastewater projects • Lead, manage, and develop a national estimating team • Provide coaching, mentoring, and performance management • Establish and maintain estimating standards, processes, and best practices • Oversee preparation, review, validation, and submission of estimates, tenders, and cost plans • Review tender documentation, specifications, drawings, and contractual requirements to identify risks, opportunities, and value engineering solutions • Challenge and validate pricing methodologies, assumptions, and cost build-ups • Support contract negotiations and provide commercial guidance during bid clarification and award stages • Build relationships with clients, framework partners, consultants, subcontractors, and suppliers • Collaborate with operational, commercial, procurement, and business development teams on bid strategies • Represent the business at client meetings, tender interviews, and industry events • Secure competitive supply chain pricing and identify cost-saving opportunities • Lead continuous improvement of estimating tools, systems, templates, and cost databases • Analyse estimating performance, bid success rates, and market trends • Ensure compliance with policies, governance, quality, health, and safety requirements • Support digital tools and innovative approaches to improve efficiency and accuracy • Support project handovers from bid to execution • Participate in post-tender reviews, lessons learned, and commercial performance reviews • Capture and share estimating knowledge and intelligence across the business

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience leading estimating teams within the water, utilities, infrastructure, construction, or civil engineering sectors • Strong understanding of estimating, cost planning, bid management, and commercial risk • Experience delivering complex tenders, framework bids, and major project estimates • Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and negotiation skills • Strong analytical and commercial acumen, with the ability to manage multiple priorities • Proficient in estimating software, cost databases, and Microsoft Office • Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel nationally • Experience within the regulated water industry, including AMP programmes and Term Service Contracts • Knowledge of Clean Water and Wastewater infrastructure projects • Understanding of NEC contracts and framework-based delivery models • Experience implementing estimating systems, process improvements, and digital tools • Knowledge of value engineering, benchmarking, and whole-life costing principles

🏖️ Benefits

• Professional growth opportunities • Diversity and inclusion commitment • Equal opportunities for all employees • Flexible UK-wide location • Travel to operational sites and offices as required