Managing Quantity Surveyor

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

Job summary

A leading water infrastructure company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to lead projects in the water sector. Responsibilities include mentoring a team, managing commercial risks, and ensuring financial targets are met. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in the utilities sector, strong knowledge of NEC contracts, and excellent leadership skills, with a degree in Quantity Surveying preferred.

Benefits

Matched or contributory pension scheme

Online GP service

Employee assistance programme

Discounts portal

Life assurance

Health Care Cash Plan

Discretionary bonus scheme

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Quantity Surveyors across water infrastructure projects.
• Oversee cost planning, forecasting, and reporting to meet financial targets.
• Support the development of commercial frameworks and improvement initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Risk management

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying

RICS or equivalent chartership

Tools

NEC contracts

JCT contracts

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.

This role will be within our Water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long‑term while protecting the environment.

Want to be a part of it?

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).

We’ll need you to 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

• Do you have extensive experience in a senior QS role within the water or utilities sector?
• Have you got a strong working knowledge of NEC contracts and public sector procurement?
• Do you have a proven track record of managing large-scale, complex infrastructure projects?
• Have you got excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills?
• Are you degree qualified in Quantity Surveying or a related field; RICS or equivalent chartership preferred?

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include:

• 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

In addition, this role offers:

• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/Hybrid car scheme
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eye care 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.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.