Head of Estimating
Lead NSS’s national estimating team across Cleaning & Maintenance, driving accurate, high-quality quotes, team development, and process improvements in a fast-paced, nationwide business.
Head of Estimating
NSS Cleaning & Maintenance – Part of NSS Group
About the Role:
As Head of Estimating, you will lead and unify the estimating function across both Cleaning and Maintenance divisions. You’ll manage Estimating Leads, ensuring all quotations are accurate, timely, and commercially robust.
This is a senior leadership role combining strategic oversight, team development, and hands-on estimating accountability. You will work closely with Sales and Operations to drive efficiency, improve margins, and maintain high-quality standards across all estimates.
Your job will include:
- Lead, mentor, and develop the estimating and surveying teams.
- Merge Maintenance and Cleaning estimating functions into a high-performing, unified team.
- Oversee and sign off estimates, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and SLA compliance.
- Streamline estimating and survey processes to improve efficiency and margin control.
- Support Sales with tenders, quotes, and client presentations, including site surveys.
- Collaborate with Operations to ensure estimates accurately reflect resources, materials, and equipment.
- Build and maintain strong supplier and subcontractor networks.
- Act as a point of escalation for complex estimating and sales queries.
- Analyse performance data to identify improvements and drive best practice.
What We Need from You
- Senior-level experience in estimating or commercial management within maintenance, refurbishment, construction or working at hight.
- Strong technical knowledge of building fabric and specialist cleaning projects.
- Proven experience leading and developing multi-discipline teams.
- Commercially astute, with the ability to optimise margins and process efficiency.
- Excellent communicator, able to engage clients, directors, and field teams.
- Proactive, adaptable, and comfortable in a fast-paced, national business.
What NSS will give to you:
- Competitive salary and benefits
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Free onsite parking and refreshments
- Reward & Recognition Scheme (monthly vouchers for top performers)
- Trade Point discount card (10% off at B&Q)
- Birthday day off after qualifying service
- Eye care vouchers and Medicash health plan (including dental, gym, and specialist discounts)
NSS Cleaning and Maintenance, part of the NSS Group, deliver nationwide specialist services to the commercial, retail, and industrial sectors.
Our Cleaning division provides corporate, retail, and specialist cleaning, including window and façade cleaning, deep cleans, and sanitisation — all delivered safely by fully trained and accredited teams.
Our Maintenance division offers building fabric maintenance and refurbishment, 600 directly employed staff, and an in-house truck-mounted access fleet.
Together, we provide integrated, self-delivered solutions with a strong focus on safety, reliability, and quality — setting new standards across the UK.
INDHP
- Department
- Sales
- Locations
- Altrincham
Altrincham
Why choose NSS
NSS is a leading niche specialist service provider in maintenance, cleaning and testing, offering support for buildings of all shapes and sizes.
We pride ourselves on being fast, safe and reliable and our customers know that when our engineers arrive to tackle a problem, they are in safe hands.
All our specialists are full-time, directly employed and receive ongoing training to make sure they stay fully certified and ready to tackle any challenge they face on site. When you work with NSS, you join a team of passionate experts who are committed to supporting each other and setting new standards for our work.
About Nationwide Specialist Services
Clean, well-maintained and fully functioning buildings are vital to keeping our customers moving. Businesses need to create positive, lasting impressions and we work with their reputations in mind. That’s why we act fast, solving most problems on the first visit, and why we invest in training and support to keep our teams at the forefront of new techniques. Our mission is to grow to be able to provide meaningful employment to 1000 people.
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