Managing Quantity Surveyor

MGroup Water; Neath; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure services provider in the UK is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to lead and mentor a team across multiple water infrastructure projects. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in the water or utilities sector, strong knowledge of NEC contracts, and a proven ability to manage large-scale projects. This role includes competitive benefits such as a pension scheme, online healthcare services, and a discretionary bonus scheme.

Benefits

Matched or contributory pension scheme

Online GP service, 24/7

Employee assistance programme

Access to retail discounts

Life assurance

Cycle to work scheme

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Company car and fuel card

Health Care Cash Plan

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Discretionary bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Senior Quantity Surveyor role focusing on water infrastructure projects.
• Leadership and mentorship of a team of Quantity Surveyors.
• Managing commercial risk and procurement strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team across multiple water infrastructure projects.
• Oversee cost planning, forecasting, and reporting.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and client standards.

Skills

Extensive experience in a senior QS role within the water or utilities sector

Strong working knowledge of NEC contracts

Proven track record of managing large-scale, complex infrastructure projects

Excellent leadership skills

Strong communication skills

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying or a related field

RICS or equivalent chartership preferred

Job description

About The Role

Right across infrastructure, there's a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you're at in your career, with us you'll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We're problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

What will you be doing?

You’ll lead and mentor a team of Quantity Surveyors across multiple water infrastructure projects along with managing commercial risk, procurement strategies, and contract negotiations (NEC/JCT).

You’ll oversee cost planning, forecasting, and reporting to ensure financial targets are met whilst collaborating with project managers, engineers, and client teams to ensure alignment on scope, budget, and delivery.

You’ll support the development of commercial frameworks and continuous improvement initiatives and ensure compliance with regulatory and client standards, including AMP and environmental targets.

What you’ll bring

• Extensive experience in a senior QS role within the water or utilities sector.
• Strong working knowledge of NEC contracts and public sector procurement.
• Proven track record of managing large‑scale, complex infrastructure projects.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying or a related field; RICS or equivalent chartership preferred.

Benefits

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

Additional Benefits

• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice salary sacrifice EV/Hybrid car scheme
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We're one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours. We're responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet. We're open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations. We're together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We're ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life. Whether you're a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It's an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

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