Quantity Surveyor

Overview

As Quantity Surveyor in Warrington, you will oversee NEC-based contract administration, cost control, and commercial interfaces to ensure on-time, compliant project delivery. You will support the Contract Leads, manage payments and programmes, and coordinate with the client and internal teams to drive value and risk management. This role combines commercial rigour with cross-functional collaboration in a highly regulated environment. It offers an opportunity to influence contract performance and learn from complex infrastructure programs.

Responsibilities

• Contract administration for existing contracts under supervision of the Commercial Manager
• Provide commercial advice to Contract Leads
• Ensure contract timescales are met (management of CEMAR)
• Management of applications for payments and general contract communications
• Programme submissions and forecast submissions
• Change management and early warnings
• Bid support for new call-off contracts
• Cost control and reporting
• Support weekly/monthly project/contract progress meetings
• Liaise with Client CEMAR Superuser for access/delegation queries
• Liaise with Client commercial team for queries and Learning from Experience
• Interface with Contract Leads, Finance, Cost Engineering and Project Controls
• Interface with Client Commercial and Project Managers

Key requirements

• Strong NEC contract administration experience, preferably NEC4 Professional Service Contracts
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel to at least intermediate level
• Ideally degree qualified in Quantity Surveying
• Ability to manage and prioritise competing priorities
• Working to high levels of accuracy and contract compliance
• Ideally prior CEMAR experience
• Security clearance requirement (minimum SC)
• UK national or MoD-approved dual national from a non-ITAR country

• Good communication skills
• Prioritisation and multi-tasking
• Attention to detail
• NEC contract administration
• CEMAR experience (optional)
• Microsoft Excel intermediate

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