Managing Quantity Surveyor

Morrison Utility Services Limited.; West Byfleet; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure services firm is seeking a Managing Quantity Surveyor to oversee high-profile National Grid projects. This role involves leading all commercial activities, managing subcontractors, and ensuring compliance with NEC contracts. The ideal candidate should possess solid Quantity Surveying experience and strong negotiation skills, with a relevant qualification. This is a hybrid position, allowing for flexibility in work location while contributing to essential energy infrastructure projects.

Benefits

Matched or contributory pension scheme

Online GP service

Employee assistance programme

Access to retail discounts

Life assurance

Cycle to work scheme

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Discretionary bonus scheme

Company car and fuel card

Private health care

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Solid experience in Quantity Surveying, ideally in Infrastructure or Energy.
• Strong grasp of NEC3/4 contracts and commercial strategy.
• Full UK driving license is required for travel across sites.

Responsibilities

• Lead all commercial aspects across National Grid sites.
• Manage subcontractor packages, valuations, and final accounts.
• Prepare claims, reports, and forecasts.
• Monitor project risks ensuring compliance with standards.

Skills

Quantity Surveying

NEC3/4 contract knowledge

Communication skills

Negotiation skills

Excel proficiency

Word proficiency

PowerPoint proficiency

Education

Relevant qualification in Quantity Surveying

Tools

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

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?

At M Group Energy, we're enabling the energy essential to support our lives. We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation. This role will be within our Transmission & Renewables team. We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity. This is a hybrid role with a site base in North Wales.

What will you be doing?

We're looking for a confident and commercially savvy Managing Quantity Surveyor to lead the charge on high-profile National Grid OHL projects. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, know your way around NEC contracts, and enjoy working closely with site teams, this could be your next big move!

Responsibilities

• Take the lead on all things commercial across National Grid sites
• Manage subcontractor packages, valuations, and final accounts
• Prepare claims, reports, and forecasts
• Keep a close eye on project risks and making sure the paperwork's watertight
• Spot variations, delays, and opportunities to recover costs
• Work with engineers, planners, and finance teams to keep things on track
• Ensure we stay compliant with health, safety, quality, and environmental standards

Qualifications

• Solid experience in Quantity Surveying, ideally in Infrastructure or Energy
• Strong grasp of NEC3/4 contracts and commercial strategy
• Sound communication and negotiation skills
• Confident with Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• A relevant qualification in Quantity Surveying
• Full UK driving license - this includes travel across sites

Why choose 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.

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
• 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
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

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.