Assistant Quantity Surveyor

weServed; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension with life cover

Digital GP

Employee savings portal

Professional fees paid

Reservists – paid leave

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking an Assistant Quantity Surveyor for the Cadder Yard, Scotland site with hybrid working (3 days on site, 2 from home). You will support commercial management from award to completion, ensuring financial control and effective contract administration on essential rail projects.

Role provides hands-on experience in cost control, commercial reporting, and contract administration within a collaborative team, with a clear path to develop a commercial career in rail infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience in a commercial, quantity surveying, estimating, or contract administration role.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to build effective relationships with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support the commercial management of projects, including cost tracking and reporting.
• Prepare and submit applications for payment, variations, and change requests.
• Assist with subcontractor procurement and contract administration.
• Maintain accurate commercial records and documentation.
• Attend project meetings and help track risks and opportunities.

Skills

Commercial experience

Communication

Stakeholder management

Contracts basics

Education

QS degree

Job description

Job Title: Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Location: Glasgow, Scotland + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74329

Build your commercial career on projects that shape vital infrastructure

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Assistant Quantity Surveyor at Cadder Yard, Scotland.

The role

As an Assistant Quantity Surveyor, you’ll support the commercial management of projects from contract award through to completion, helping to ensure strong financial control, effective contract management, and successful project delivery.

This is a great opportunity to develop your career within a collaborative team, gaining hands‑on experience across cost control, contract administration, and commercial reporting while working on essential rail projects.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Supporting the commercial management of projects, including cost tracking and reporting
• Preparing and submitting applications for payment, variations, and change requests
• Assisting with subcontractor procurement and contract administration
• Maintaining accurate commercial records and documentation
• Attending project meetings and helping track risks and opportunities.

This is a full-time role working 35 hours per week, with hybrid working (3 days onsite, 2 from home).

Essential experience of the Assistant Quantity Surveyor:

• Experience in a commercial, quantity surveying, estimating, or contract administration role
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to build effective relationships with stakeholders
• Basic understanding of contracts and commercial processes.

Qualifications for the Assistant Quantity Surveyor:

• Degree in Quantity Surveying (or equivalent) or working towards a relevant qualification.

Security Clearance

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 08/09/2026

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