Lead Quantity Surveyor – Industrial Project Leader (Hull)

Millbank Holdings; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Millbank Holdings is recruiting an experienced Managing Quantity Surveyor for a major industrial project in Hull. You will oversee all commercial activities, drive cost control, prepare valuations and manage final accounts, while guiding a team of quantity surveyors in a complex programme.

You will work closely with project leadership, procurement and delivery teams, ensuring accurate forecasting and commercial integrity throughout the project lifecycle on a high-value industrial development.

Qualifications

• Significant Quantity Surveying or commercial management experience within engineering, construction, energy or infrastructure projects.
• Strong practical knowledge of NEC3 and NEC4 contracts.
• Experience working under NEC Option B contracts.
• Demonstrable experience in the measurement and valuation of complex construction projects.
• Strong understanding of compensation events and change management processes.
• Experience managing subcontractor accounts from procurement through to final account.
• Strong cost control, forecasting and financial reporting capability.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, scope documents, bills of quantities and commercial schedules.
• Experience using contract management and project financial systems.
• Degree qualified, or equivalent, in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Take day to day responsibility for the commercial management of the project.
• Maintain a detailed understanding of the project scope, contract requirements, pricing structure and commercial assumptions.
• Provide commercial advice and guidance to project and delivery teams.
• Identify and elevate commercial risks, opportunities and contractual issues.
• Lead the measurement and valuation of completed works in accordance with contractual requirements.
• Ensure quantities are accurately measured and supported by records, drawings and calculations.
• Maintain robust measurement and valuation records to support commercial entitlement.
• Reconcile contract quantities, measured quantities, completed works, applications and forecast quantities.
• Identify and assess quantity growth, reductions and associated commercial impacts.
• Prepare and manage applications for payment, ensuring accurate valuation and contractual recovery.
• Monitor certified values, cash received and outstanding balances.
• Own and maintain detailed cost forecasts, cost to complete assessments and estimate at completion reporting.
• Reconcile actual and committed costs against budgets and project performance.
• Identify emerging cost trends and support mitigation actions.
• Support change management activities, ensuring commercial implications are assessed.
• Ensure compensation events and approved changes are reflected in forecasts and records.
• Lead the commercial management of subcontractors and suppliers.
• Manage subcontract applications, valuations, variations, liabilities, accruals and final accounts.
• Maintain contemporaneous records to support measurement and entitlement.
• Support procurement activities and commercial assessment of subcontract and supply packages.
• Manage commercial risks and opportunities and support recovery strategies where required.
• Produce accurate commercial reports covering cost, value, change, risk, forecast and performance.
• Provide leadership and guidance to Quantity Surveyors and commercial team members.
• Drive commercial close out activities and timely final accounts agreement.

Skills

Commercial management

Cost control

Forecasting

Financial reporting

NEC contracts knowledge

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying or Commercial Management

Tools

Contract management systems

Project financial systems

Job description

Millbank Holdings is recruiting an experienced Managing Quantity Surveyor for a major industrial project in Hull. You will oversee all commercial activities, drive cost control, prepare valuations and manage final accounts, while guiding a team of quantity surveyors in a complex programme.

You will work closely with project leadership, procurement and delivery teams, ensuring accurate forecasting and commercial integrity throughout the project lifecycle on a high-value industrial development.