Estimating Team Leader

  • Ref:
    92897
  • Location:
    Northampton
  • Employment:
    Full time
  • Closing Date:
    30 April 2026

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Job Overview

  • Manage the end-to-end estimating process for all quote requests received from engineers, operations teams, and direct client enquiries.
  • Ensure quotations are accurate, competitively priced, and issued within agreed turnaround times and SLAs.
  • Review, sense-check, and approve estimates prior to submission, ensuring alignment with agreed margins, frameworks, and client pricing models.

 

Main Duties

  • The Estimating Team Leader is responsible for the day-to-day leadership and performance of the Estimating Team, ensuring accurate, timely, and commercially compliant quotations are produced across Fire & Security Systems.

    The role manages quote requests received from engineers and directly from clients, ensuring estimating activities are delivered in line with Mitie and Marlowe processes, commercial governance, and agreed service levels. The post holder will act as the first point of escalation for estimating-related queries and will drive consistency, performance, and continuous improvement across the function.

 

What we are looking for

  • Experience leading or supervising a team in a fast-paced operational environment.
  • Strong commercial awareness with the ability to balance margin protection and customer delivery.
  • Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to engage engineers, clients, and senior stakeholders.
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Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 80,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

Join our Mitie Team.

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Mitie Security - Northampton - Northampton Business Park
Mitie Security, Northampton Business Park, 650 Pavilion Drive, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, NN4 7SL
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