Senior Quantity Surveyor

Mott MacDonald; Brighton; Hybrid; AUD 125,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension matching

Life assurance

Income protection

Flexible benefits

Annual bonus

Employee ownership

Job summary

Mott MacDonald is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join the Advisory & Programme Delivery (APD) Transportation team. You will manage commercial delivery across major highways programmes within a leading global consultancy, ensuring value, cost control, and client satisfaction.

Flexible, hybrid working is available alongside clear long-term progression, with opportunities to lead multi-disciplinary teams on infrastructure projects worldwide.

Qualifications

• NEC3/4 accredited or equivalent knowledge.
• Proven track record in commercial management of infrastructure projects.
• Experience leading large project teams on highways.
• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Engineering, or related field.
• Chartered with RICS/ICES or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Support senior project manager in delivery and performance.
• Manage internal/external commercial aspects across contracts.
• Collaborate with project/design managers to meet time, quality, budget.
• Liaise with Client Representative on commercial matters.
• Drive change management and cost control across projects.
• Mentor colleagues in cost and commercial management.

Skills

NEC3/4 Accreditation

Commercial management

Highways experience

Infrastructure projects

Quantity surveying

Team leadership

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying or Civil Engineering

Chartered with RICS/ICES

Job description

Location/s: London, Croydon, Brighton; UK

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the business unit

Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors.

We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world-leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services.

APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.

Transportation

Through APD, Mott MacDonald provides advisory and project, programme and commercial management (PPCM) services to help aviation, highways and rail sector clients deliver transport infrastructure projects both cost-effectively and sustainability.

Our reach in transportation extends across mainland Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India, Australasia and beyond.

Overview of the role

Are you an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor looking to take the next step in your career? Do you want to work within our Transportation team on high-profile highways programmes and projects within a leading, global consultancy?

Do you wish to take a role with excellent opportunities for long term career progression? If so, please read on…

We are seeking a talented Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Advisory & Programme Delivery (APD) Transportation team, supporting the successful delivery of major highways projects. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a collaborative, multi-disciplinary environment, with clear opportunities for long-term progression.

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will play a key role in the commercial management of multiple projects and workstreams across complex highways programmes. You will be accountable for managing client relationships and ensuring Mott MacDonald’s contractual and commercial obligations are met.

Working as part of the core project team, you will collaborate closely with the wider Advisory, Project, and Programme Management teams to ensure successful delivery of project outcomes aligned with client expectations. You will provide expert commercial advice, drive robust cost control practices, and contribute to the efficient and successful delivery of critical infrastructure projects.

Within our Advisory & Programme Delivery (APD) we deliver advisory, project, programme and commercial management services to customers. We operate in Highways, Rail, Aviation and Maritime. Our vision is to deliver major transportation projects as part of a global business and to establish our wide-ranging consultancy as ‘credible’ and ‘preferred’ for our existing and new clients.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Provide key support to the senior project manager in the delivery of commission obligations and internal project performance
• Control the internal and external commercial aspects of project across a range of contractual arrangements
• Advise and work closely with the project and design managers to ensure successful delivery of projects to time, quality, budget throughout the project lifecycle
• Liaising with Client Representative on commercial matters and acting as focal point for the MM team on commercial and contractual issues. Contribute to open and effective communications across the project delivery and client teams
• Driving effective change management across the project
• Procurement and management of Sub Consultants including timesheet approvals and payments
• Mentor colleagues in the skills of cost and commercial management
• Contribute to securing opportunities and repeat business through the high quality of service delivery

Candidate specification

Essential:

• NEC3/4 Accreditation or significant knowledge and experience
• Proven track record of commercial managing a range of infrastructure and built environment developments and disciplines, with substantial experience of managing and leading large project teams to successful outcomes
• Highways or major infrastructure experience
• Degree in Accountancy/ Finance/ Quantity Surveying/Engineering Discipline or equivalent
• Chartered Membership with RICS/ICES or relevant professional institute
• Demonstrable experience of working within a multi-disciplinary environment
• Ability to create and manage workpackage labour estimates, and associated P/L
• Ability to take ownership of contract administration, billing, cost management, sub contractor financial management, cost reconciliation, P/L reporting at a project level
• Ability to plan the cost management in the organisational ERP systems with advanced ability to reproduce reports in a customer facing environment
• Ability to guide team members to create an efficient cost and contract administration procedures
• Ability to work under pressure
• Effective time management with excellent presentation and communication skills

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at [e-mail] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Employee Ownership

• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long‑term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• 10 days additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high‑street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
• We offer policies and dedicated support to help military families balance service life with career and wellbeing.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and Gold Award holders in the MOD Employer Recognition Scheme, supported by our dedicated internal Armed Forces Network.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.