Managing Quantity Surveyor Rail

Company: Pinnacle Recruitment
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

As Managing Quantity Surveyor in the Anglia Framework Delivery team, you provide senior commercial leadership across rail civils projects. You lead a regional team, shaping commercial strategy, pricing, and contract administration to deliver schemes on time and to budget. You act as a liaison with clients on change, disputes, and negotiations, driving consistency across multiple sites. This role offers impact through oversight of diverse rail maintenance frameworks and multi-site delivery, in a respected engineering contractor setting.

Pay / Benefits

  • Company Car or Car Allowance
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Pension
  • Life assurance

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of Quantity Surveyors and Assistants with daily guidance and contractual advice
  • Manage commercial activities across multiple sites to meet time and budget targets
  • Pricing and submitting accurate estimates, and resolving pricing issues with clients
  • Contract administration (NEC/NR forms) and CVRs
  • Engage in client liaison for change negotiations and dispute resolution
  • Coordinate with Site Managers to gather site remittance information
  • Oversee subcontractor management and change management including early warnings
  • Final accounting and project close-out activities

Key requirements

  • Experience as a Managing Quantity Surveyor or Senior Quantity Surveyor with team leadership
  • Civil engineering project experience (rail, bridges, roads, structures)
  • Contractual experience with NEC or NR forms of contract
  • Experience in civils maintenance frameworks in a client-facing capacity
  • Management experience of a team of Quantity Surveyors
  • Client-facing communication
  • Leadership and mentorship
  • Negotiation and dispute resolution
  • NEC contracts
  • NR forms of contract
  • Contract administration

Posted: September 14th, 2026