Estimator
Ground Control
Date: 1 day ago
City: Nottingham
Contract type: Full time
Location: hybrid based in the Midlands with nationwide travel as and when required
Salary: Competitive
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday-Friday
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Are you a commercially savvy Estimator with a passion for construction and utilities? Do you thrive on creating robust, competitive quotes that help win meaningful work? Join Ground Control’s growing Utilities Major Projects team and play a key role in pricing and securing projects that shape the UK’s critical infrastructure.
Key responsibilities:
As an Estimator, you’ll support pricing across a range of services including vegetation clearance, fencing, ecology, minor civils, and enabling works. You’ll be working with top-tier clients, ensuring your estimates are not just accurate but commercially strategic.
This is a nationwide role that will require travel as and when required as well as time working from home. We are flexible on the location of the right candidate as long as they have good access to motorway links both to the north and south.
You’ll need
Career Development Focus: We’re committed to supporting your professional growth with clear career paths, training, and tailored development programs, including our GC Leadership Academy, job specific accreditations and higher education opportunities.
Exciting Growth Opportunities: Be part of a rapidly growing company with a dynamic team and expanding client base.
Collaborative Environment: Work in a supportive, engaging, and innovative culture where your contributions are valued.
Competitive Package: Enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package, along with flexible working options, including:
23 days holiday, Increasing with length of service + bank holidays
Yearly bonus scheme & Share options
Robust pension scheme
Medigold employee support, Free Flu Jabs, Online private GP Service
Free or subsidised national gym memberships
Employee Recognition Scheme
2 personal choice volunteering days
Ground Control
Ground Control is a UK-based grounds maintenance company powered by the latest technology. Since launching in 1973, Ground Control has grown rapidly and now provides full national coverage for our customers across the UK and Ireland.
We deliver a range of services, including grounds maintenance, winter gritting, landscape construction, design, arboriculture, electric vehicle charging point installation to more than 50,000 commercial properties across the UK.
If you are looking to invest in your future with a business that puts people at the centre of everything, click the apply now button below to speak to a member of our team.
#INDHP
Equal Opportunities Statement
At Ground Control, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to thrive. We believe that diversity drives innovation and success, and we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate based on age, disability, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. We actively support and promote an inclusive culture, ensuring fair and equitable treatment throughout the recruitment process and beyond.
Salary: Competitive
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday-Friday
_________________________________________________________________________
Are you a commercially savvy Estimator with a passion for construction and utilities? Do you thrive on creating robust, competitive quotes that help win meaningful work? Join Ground Control’s growing Utilities Major Projects team and play a key role in pricing and securing projects that shape the UK’s critical infrastructure.
Key responsibilities:
As an Estimator, you’ll support pricing across a range of services including vegetation clearance, fencing, ecology, minor civils, and enabling works. You’ll be working with top-tier clients, ensuring your estimates are not just accurate but commercially strategic.
- Prepare clear, commercially robust quotes and estimates under tight deadlines
- Interpret technical drawings, scopes, and site surveys (virtual or in-person)
- Liaise with clients, suppliers, subcontractors, and internal teams to gather inputs and confirm assumptions
- Build pricing models using rate cards, measured works, or lump sums
- Support handover to operational delivery teams
- Contribute to business development through pricing support and market insight
This is a nationwide role that will require travel as and when required as well as time working from home. We are flexible on the location of the right candidate as long as they have good access to motorway links both to the north and south.
You’ll need
- Proven experience in estimating across construction/utilities projects
- Excellent Excel and numeracy skills
- Ability to interpret technical project documentation
- Strong commercial awareness and risk insight
- Ability to juggle multiple bids in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent stakeholder communication and supplier engagement
- Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel
- Experience with vegetation management, fencing, civils, or enabling works
- Familiarity working with Tier 1 contractors
- Degree in Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering (or similar)
- Membership of RICS/CICES or similar
- CSCS and SMSTS/SSSTS certifications
Career Development Focus: We’re committed to supporting your professional growth with clear career paths, training, and tailored development programs, including our GC Leadership Academy, job specific accreditations and higher education opportunities.
Exciting Growth Opportunities: Be part of a rapidly growing company with a dynamic team and expanding client base.
Collaborative Environment: Work in a supportive, engaging, and innovative culture where your contributions are valued.
Competitive Package: Enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package, along with flexible working options, including:
23 days holiday, Increasing with length of service + bank holidays
Yearly bonus scheme & Share options
Robust pension scheme
Medigold employee support, Free Flu Jabs, Online private GP Service
Free or subsidised national gym memberships
Employee Recognition Scheme
2 personal choice volunteering days
Ground Control
Ground Control is a UK-based grounds maintenance company powered by the latest technology. Since launching in 1973, Ground Control has grown rapidly and now provides full national coverage for our customers across the UK and Ireland.
We deliver a range of services, including grounds maintenance, winter gritting, landscape construction, design, arboriculture, electric vehicle charging point installation to more than 50,000 commercial properties across the UK.
If you are looking to invest in your future with a business that puts people at the centre of everything, click the apply now button below to speak to a member of our team.
#INDHP
Equal Opportunities Statement
At Ground Control, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to thrive. We believe that diversity drives innovation and success, and we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate based on age, disability, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. We actively support and promote an inclusive culture, ensuring fair and equitable treatment throughout the recruitment process and beyond.
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