Scaffolding Estimator (Remote)
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What you'll do
Data & Site Analysis: Review property measurement data, photos, video footage, and solar installation specifications to determine precise access requirements for domestic and commercial properties.
- Cost Estimation: Produce accurate, competitive, and timely cost estimates and bills of quantities for standard and bespoke access scaffolding, adhering strictly to TG20 guidelines.
- Subcontractor Management: Communicate project scopes to subcontractor partners, negotiate rates, issue quote requests, and ensure estimates align with agreed commercial terms.
- Compliance & Safety: Ensure all proposed scaffolding solutions meet current UK Health & Safety regulations, NASC guidance, and relevant industry standards.
- Workflow Coordination: Maintain clear digital records within our project management system to ensure seamless handovers from estimation to subcontractor.
What you'll need
- Scaffolding Estimating Experience: Proven track record pricing scaffolding projects (experience in domestic, solar, or roofing access is highly desirable).
- UK Qualifications: Valid UK scaffolding credentials or recognised trade qualifications (e.g., CISRS, NVQ Level 3/4 in Scaffolding/Estimating, or certified TG20 training).
- Industry Compliance: Deep understanding of TG20 e-Guide, SG4 guidance, and modern scaffolding techniques.
- Contractor Relations: Demonstrated experience dealing directly with contractors, subcontractors, and site personnel.
- Tech-Savvy: Comfortable working remotely using digital survey software, photo interpretation tools, spreadsheets, and online project management platforms.
- Attributes: Exceptional attention to detail, strong commercial negotiation skills, and the self-motivation required to thrive in an independent, home-based environment.
- Full UK driving license.
This role can be based from home, but will require occasional travel to our offices located across England (ie, Brighton, Coventry, Leicester).
This is a 6 month Fixed Term Contract, with the potential to go permanent.
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• Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!
• Octopus Energy Group is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We were recently named the UK's top company to work for, and we ranked in the top ten in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024. Our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the top 10 companies for senior leadership.
• Visit our UK perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits
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Octopus Energy
View Company ProfileOctopus Energy (operating under octopus.energy, legally Octopus Energy Group Limited) is the premier, enterprise-grade renewable energy technology platform, clean utility pioneer, and global green asset orchestration powerhouse engineered to act as the definitive, high-visibility retail energy supply, decentralized grid management, and smart meter time-of-use tariff layer for tens of millions of homes and commercial entities worldwide. Founded in 2015 by visionary tech and energy entrepreneurs Greg Jackson (CEO), Stuart Jackson (CFO), Pete Miller, and AJ Lawrence, the corporation completely eliminates the severe systemic friction of traditional, fossil-heavy energy provisioning—where legacy utility providers encounter extreme customer dissatisfaction, billing opacity, and rigid infrastructure traps that block renewable adoption—by deploying its proprietary cloud-based "Kraken" tech stack. Moving far beyond passive power delivery lines or traditional regional monopolies, Octopus natively unifies hyper-flexible time-of-use digital pricing engines (such as the wholesale-pegged Octopus Tracker and half-hourly Agile Octopus), consumer heat pump systems, domestic battery arrays, electric vehicle concierge infrastructure, and commercial renewable generation management into a high-availability digital utility network. Serving as a mission-critical clean tech operator across the UK, Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific, the collective manages over 11 million active accounts globally while its core software platform, Kraken, is contracted to orchestrate more than 40 million energy and water accounts worldwide. Reflecting its immense market dominance and investor validation, the high-growth giant commands an expansive institutional asset framework backed by over $1.96 billion in venture and private equity funding—supported by top-tier capital architects including Generation Investment Management, CPP Investments, Tokyo Gas, Origin Energy, and major funding expansions that value the enterprise at approximately $9 billion. Under the hood, its technology framework utilizes advanced machine learning engines designed to balance distributed energy resources with real-time supply and demand, high-frequency smart meter parsing pipelines, and developer-friendly data routing endpoints optimized to manage massive multi-region transactional billing logs with absolute precision and sub-second execution latency. What sets Octopus Energy apart is its uncompromising dedication to replacing fragmented, legacy utility models with an "Internet of Energy" that combines mathematical price predictability, hands-on customer-first service, and scalable grid decarbonization; by bridging the gap between performance-intensive relational software automation and front-row global climate transformation goals, the corporation remains the definitive cornerstone of modern algorithmic energy technology and global green utility infrastructure transformation.
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