Junior Estimator
| Posting date: | 20 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £31,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 September 2025 |
| Location: | Batley, Yorkshire, WF17 9TD |
| Company: | M Group Services |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 57634831 |
Summary
About The Role
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 and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.
Want to be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
You'll be part of our Pre-Construction Commercial Team who are responsible for delivering Capital Projects for numerous AMP8 frameworks. The role involves the pre-construction pricing, planning, interpreting site investigation reports and designing of Civils Engineering & Utility based projects in environments such as clean water networks, storage solutions, tanks, underground structures, pumping stations, gravity sewers, water & sewage treatment works etc.
You'll ensure that we comply with industry best practice, and where appropriate identify innovative solutions for consideration.
You'll learn how to undertake commercial pricing exercises using market leading estimating software, learn an industry recognised standard method of measurement, produce programmes for construction works and pre-construction activities, understand how major projects are designed, learn about the NEC4 suite of contracts.
You'll work within the vibrant Estimating team and engage with internal and external stakeholders that will enable you to further develop your understanding and capability in a built environment.
What you’ll bring
- Have you been graduated within the last 2 years or about to graduate?
- Have you achieved or expected to achieve as a minimum 2:1 degree or equivalent in either Civil Engineering, Quantity Surveying or Similar construction management related qualification?
- Do you have Right to work in the UK for a minimum of 3 years from September 2025?
- Do you hold a valid UK Driving License?
- Do you have motivation? A clear commitment to advancing your career within the water industry.
- Do you have flexibility? Willingness to travel to different locations across the UK during two-year programme.
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 or contributory 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;
- Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
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.
#MGroupW
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 and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.
Want to be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
You'll be part of our Pre-Construction Commercial Team who are responsible for delivering Capital Projects for numerous AMP8 frameworks. The role involves the pre-construction pricing, planning, interpreting site investigation reports and designing of Civils Engineering & Utility based projects in environments such as clean water networks, storage solutions, tanks, underground structures, pumping stations, gravity sewers, water & sewage treatment works etc.
You'll ensure that we comply with industry best practice, and where appropriate identify innovative solutions for consideration.
You'll learn how to undertake commercial pricing exercises using market leading estimating software, learn an industry recognised standard method of measurement, produce programmes for construction works and pre-construction activities, understand how major projects are designed, learn about the NEC4 suite of contracts.
You'll work within the vibrant Estimating team and engage with internal and external stakeholders that will enable you to further develop your understanding and capability in a built environment.
What you’ll bring
- Have you been graduated within the last 2 years or about to graduate?
- Have you achieved or expected to achieve as a minimum 2:1 degree or equivalent in either Civil Engineering, Quantity Surveying or Similar construction management related qualification?
- Do you have Right to work in the UK for a minimum of 3 years from September 2025?
- Do you hold a valid UK Driving License?
- Do you have motivation? A clear commitment to advancing your career within the water industry.
- Do you have flexibility? Willingness to travel to different locations across the UK during two-year programme.
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 or contributory 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;
- Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
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.
#MGroupW