Senior Quantity Surveyor

Overview

As a Senior Cost Manager/Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will lead commercial and cost-management activities on UK infrastructure programmes across airports, utilities, and transport. You’ll work within a Midlands team to optimize procurement, payments, and contract performance, collaborating with clients and contractors to drive value for money. The role blends contract strategy, data-driven insights, and post-contract commercial delivery to shape major projects. This is a high-impact opportunity to progress toward chartership while advancing best practices in cost management.

Pay / Benefits

• career development and mentoring toward chartership
• variety and flexibility in assignments
• recognition of contributions
• opportunity to work on high-profile UK projects
• world-class training and tools for cost management
• accelerated progression in a high-performing team

Responsibilities

• Manage commercial contracts, procurement, and negotiations in an NEC environment
• Lead post-contract activities including payment approvals, cost assessments, and contract changes
• Support contractors with transparent, data-driven processes
• Identify cost-saving strategies and optimize contract performance
• Support decision-making with cost management insights
• Contribute to commercial and contractual performance of projects
• Ensure compliance with environmental, health, safety, security and quality standards
• Oversee selection and management of construction/engineering contractors
• Provide procurement strategy advice and manage tender processes
• Prepare cost reports, forecasts, and early warnings/instructions/compensation events
• Attend progress meetings and promote commercial awareness
• Support dispute resolution and contract close-out strategy as required

Key requirements

• Proven expertise in quantity surveying, procurement, and/or estimating on large-scale infrastructure projects
• Degree-qualified with MRICS status or working towards it
• Strong knowledge of NEC contracts and infrastructure cost management
• Collaborative, proactive communicator and adaptable thinker
• Ability to balance site travel with flexible working
• Drive to lead and grow within a global consultancy

• collaborative
• proactive
• clear communicator
• quantity surveying
• procurement and tendering
• cost management

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