Quantity Surveyor

Balfour Beatty plc; Norwich; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working with up to 40% remote

25 days annual leave (pro rata)

Pension

Share incentive plan

Volunteering leave

Recognition schemes

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking an Assistant Quantity Surveyor to join the Commercial team on the @One Alliance in Norwich. The role focuses on commercial support, cost control, and governance compliance within a major infrastructure alliance.

The role requires extensive cost and commercial management experience, strong communication, and a drive for continuous improvement. Hybrid working allows 2-3 days in the office.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in cost and commercial management.
• Degree (or equivalent) in a commercial, engineering, management or cost discipline is desirable.
• Confident communicator with first-class customer service and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of commercial and cost management for projects or programmes.
• Ensure robust cost management processes with accurate reporting and analysis.
• Support commercial decision-making through forecasting and cost control.
• Ensure project teams understand contractual arrangements and partner requirements.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to identify and monitor efficiency plans.

Skills

Cost management

Commercial management

Communication

Leadership

Construction knowledge

Education

Degree in cost/engineering/management

Job description

About The Role

Assistant Quantity Surveyor – Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

Location: Norwich (hybrid working; 2-3 days per week office- based)

Balfour Beatty play a key role as part of the {(6) Anglian Water's @one Alliance: Overview | LinkedIn} @Anglian Water’s one Alliance. The Alliance is a ground-breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and eight industry-leading partners: Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. And together, we deliver around 40% of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.

Entering year 2 of AMP 8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period yet, we're taking on nature-based, sustainable solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes. We’re setting global benchmarks in environmental infrastructure and empowering our people with exceptional career growth opportunities.

To support our journey of commercial excellence, Balfour Beatty’s is seeking an experienced Quantity Surveyor to join the Commercial team on the @One Alliance and play a key role in delivering successful project outcomes.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Quantity Surveyor within the @One Alliance, you will act as the commercial conscience of the integrated delivery team, providing commercial support to both project management and site-based delivery teams.

You will ensure operations are delivered in line with cost control objectives, maximising value, minimising future liabilities, and maintaining the required standards of quality and safety. You will also ensure consistent compliance with Alliance and Anglian Water governance procedures.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of commercial and cost management for projects or programmes, as directed by the Project Commercial Manager
• Ensure robust cost management processes are in place, supported by accurate and timely reporting, data and analysis
• Support commercial decision-making through effective forecasting and cost control
• Ensure project teams, including site staff, fully understand contractual arrangements and partner requirements
• Work collaboratively with delivery teams to identify, implement and monitor efficiency plans throughout the project lifecycle
• Maintain accurate commercial records, including final accounts, to support audits and cost assurance

About You

• Extensive experience in cost and commercial management
• Degree (or equivalent) in a commercial, engineering, management or cost discipline is desirable
• A strong passion for pursuing a career in Commercial Management
• Confident communicator with first-class customer service and leadership skills
• In-depth knowledge of construction and safety standards
• Comfortable challenging processes and practices to drive continuous improvement

Benefits

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About Us

Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.