Quantity Surveyor Defence

Overview

As a Quantity Surveyor in our Defence business, you’ll support complex defence and infrastructure projects across a broad client base. You’ll help manage costs, contracts, and value engineering while working with multidisciplinary teams to deliver on programme objectives. This role sits within a specialist cost and programme performance function, offering hybrid working and exposure to high-profile projects. You’ll contribute to robust commercial delivery and trusted client relationships, shaping outcomes for critical UK Defence programmes.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working
• health and well-being support
• professional development
• international exposure
• strong work-life balance

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain professional relationships with clients and project teams
• Administer contracts in line with project objectives and governance
• Provide accurate cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting to completion
• Monitor cost variance and contract cash flow; ensure timely applications
• Collaborate with client and contractor teams to deliver KPIs and value engineering
• Manage contract changes to stay within governance and best practice
• Provide commercial guidance to stakeholders and support final accounts
• Contribute to development and promotion of estimating best practice
• Support achievement of departmental objectives
• Stay informed on technical developments to advise on best practice

Key requirements

• Qualification in Estimating, Quantity Surveying or Cost Engineering
• Experience in the Infrastructure sector (Rail, air, power, highways)
• Proven ability to compile and deliver complex estimates and cost models
• Experience in an integrated Project Controls environment
• Experience with single-sourced, non-competed public procurement
• Strong Excel, Word and PowerPoint skills
• Strong written and verbal communication in client-facing roles

• Client-facing communication
• Collaborative teamwork
• Proactive cost-control mindset
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft PowerPoint

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