Project Quantity Surveyor

Sccsinternational; Hoddesdon; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

VolkerHighways is recruiting a Project Quantity Surveyor for its ICP and EV team in Hoddesdon. The permanent role blends site commercial advice with cost reporting, subcontract management and payment recovery.

The surveyor will advise project colleagues on financial questions and identify cost risks. Responsibilities include tender analysis, issuing instructions, subcontractor payment checks, measuring work, recording variations and monthly forecasts.

Qualifications

• Quantity surveying experience on highways or civil-engineering projects.
• Practical experience administering NEC or JCT contracts.
• Negotiation, accurate forecasting and client-facing confidence desirable.
• Experience with large schemes involving change management, EV work or street lighting preferred but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Analysing tenders.
• Issuing instructions.
• Checking supporting documents for subcontractor payments.
• Measuring completed work and recording variations.
• Agree income and monitor monthly reporting including forecasts, accruals and recovery.
• Managing aged debt and authorising invoices.
• Maintaining records of client performance measures.

Skills

Negotiation

Forecasting

Client management

Microsoft Office

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

VolkerHighways is recruiting a Project Quantity Surveyor for its ICP and EV team in Hoddesdon. The permanent role combines site commercial advice with cost reporting, subcontract management and recovery of payments. The surveyor will advise project colleagues on financial and contractual questions and identify cost risks.

Responsibilities include:

• analysing tenders
• issuing instructions
• checking supporting documents for subcontractor payments

The post also involves measuring completed work, recording variations and agreeing income.

Monthly reporting covers:

• forecasts
• accruals
• recovery

Further tasks include:

• managing aged debt
• authorising invoices
• maintaining records of client performance measures

Applicants should have quantity-surveying experience on highways or civil-engineering projects and practical experience administering NEC or JCT contracts. The advert seeks negotiation skills, accurate forecasting and confidence when dealing with clients. Experience of large schemes involving change management, electric-vehicle work or street lighting is preferred but is not essential.

Microsoft Office proficiency and the ability to meet deadlines are also requested. The employer states that drug and alcohol screening is mandatory for staff.

The details above are taken from the employer's own posting, read on 20-09-2026. Where the posting does not state something, this page says so rather than estimating it. SCCSI is not the employer, is not a recruitment agency and takes no part in the selection.