Engineering Quantity Surveyor – Cost & Contracts

Tatton Recruitment; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 46,125 - 83,025; Full time

Job summary

Certain Advantage is partnering with a key client to recruit a Quantity Surveyor on a contract basis in the South West, UK. You’ll be responsible for delivering robust cost management across the full engineering project lifecycle, ensuring accurate financial control, commercial compliance and high-quality reporting.

The role focuses on collaboration with client teams to shape QS capability, develop cost plans, and ensure procurement and contract administration align with project timelines.

Qualifications

• Experience in commercial, cost, or contract management within engineering, construction, or tech projects.
• Strong cost planning, estimating, and financial control capabilities.
• Ability to interpret drawings, specifications, contracts, and technical docs.
• Knowledge of procurement processes, supplier evaluation, and contractor management.
• Highly analytical with strong numerical capability and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the client to shape and develop future Quantity Surveying (QS) capability.
• Support portfolio-level projects and contribute to strategy for QS deployment and site-wide supportability.
• Develop robust cost plans, engineering estimates, and expenditure profiles.
• Maintain accurate budgets, forecasts, and commercial performance reporting.
• Lead contract administration activities, including variation management and change control.
• Support procurement processes through cost evaluation, tender assessments, and supplier reviews.
• Monitor project expenditure against baseline costs and proactively identify potential risks.
• Produce structured cost models, pricing schedules, and supporting commercial documentation.

Skills

Cost management

Financial control

Reporting

Contract administration

Procurement

Supplier evaluations

Cost planning

Estimating

Analytical

Numerical ability

Tools

ERP systems

Project controls platforms

Job description

Quantity Surveyor
South West, UK

Certain Advantage is partnering with a key client to recruit a Quantity Surveyoron a contract basis.

You'll be responsible for delivering robust cost management across the fullengineeringproject lifecycle, ensuring accurate financial control, commercial compliance and high‑quality reporting.

What will you be doing?

Collaborate with the client to shape and develop future Quantity Surveying (QS) capability.
Support portfolio-level projects and contribute to strategy for QS deployment and site-wide supportability.
Develop robust cost plans, engineering estimates, and expenditure profiles.
Maintain accurate budgets, forecasts, and commercial performance reporting.
Lead contract administration activities, including variation management and change control.
Support procurement processes through cost evaluation, tender assessments, and supplier reviews.
Monitor project expenditure against baseline costs and proactively identify potential risks.
Produce structured cost models, pricing schedules, and supporting commercial documentation.
A couple of things you should know:

Experience supporting commercial, cost, or contract management within engineering, construction, or technical project environments.
Strong understanding of cost planning, estimating, and financial control across engineered scopes of work.
Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, contract terms, and technical documentation.
Knowledge of procurement processes, supplier evaluation, and contractor management within engineering supply chains.
Highly analytical with strong numerical capability and a keen attention to detail.
During an interview, you may be asked about:

Your experience in Defence, Nuclear, Rail, Energy, or infrastructure environments.
Your familiarity withengineeringcost management tools, ERP systems orproject controlsplatforms.

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