Quantity Surveyor

Overview

As a Quantity Surveyor in our utilities-focused commercial team in Newport, you will help safeguard profitability and support sustainable infrastructure. You’ll work across high-volume, low-value projects, providing cost control, reporting, and commercial insights to drive performance. Your role links operations, planning, and client relationships to ensure targets are met and value is delivered. This is an opportunity to shape financial control in a forward-thinking, greener contracting environment.

Responsibilities

• Generate weekly revenue and cost reports
• Control submissions of daily completed jobs
• Produce Schedule of Rates
• Reconcile subcontractor costs and prepare payment certificates
• Liaise with Operations and Planning to monitor progress and scope changes
• Review scheme works to ensure targets are met
• Price completed jobs for high-volume works
• Develop relationships with clients during Work in Progress days
• Analyze weekly and monthly cost and revenue data

Key requirements

• Experienced Quantity Surveyor with utilities, civil, or mechanical engineering background
• Experience managing high-volume, low-value works
• Solid understanding of NEC contract schemes
• Experience in subcontractor management
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills (formulas, pivot tables, VLOOKUP)
• Data integrity and financial analysis
• Degree in Quantity Surveying or HNC/HND in Civil or Mechanical Engineering with commercial management experience (desirable)

• Enthusiastic
• Proactive
• Problem solver
• Advanced Excel (formulas, pivot tables, VLOOKUP)
• NEC contract knowledge
• Cost control and financial analysis

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