Quantity Surveyor

Galliford Try; Warrington; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday entitlement

Corporate discounts

Cycle to Work

Pension plan

Family leave policy

Save as You Earn

Private medical scheme

Professional association membership

Job summary

Galliford Try Group is recruiting a Quantity Surveyor to join our Asset Intelligence business. The role requires strong commercial and financial management, contract administration and stakeholder engagement across infrastructure projects in Warrington.

You will lead commercial activities, manage cash flow, oversee subcontractor payments and contribute to project governance. Mentoring junior team members and delivering commercial targets are key aspects of the role.

Qualifications

• Experience in a Quantity Surveyor role in infrastructure, utilities, engineering, or construction.
• Strong commercial and financial management skills with forecasting, cost control, cash flow, and reporting.
• Sound understanding of contract administration, change management, and risk management principles.
• Ability to analyse commercial data and provide evidence-based recommendations and reporting.
• Experience coaching or mentoring junior team members.

Responsibilities

• Lead the commercial management of Asset Intelligence projects, ensuring compliance with Galliford Try processes and governance.
• Support the Senior Quantity Surveyor and Managing Quantity Surveyor in delivering commercial strategy and objectives.
• Build strong relationships across commercial, operational, delivery and design teams to drive collaboration.
• Prepare, manage, and monitor cash flow forecasts and explain variances against budgets.
• Maximise cash collection, minimise WIP and debt exposure, and ensure timely client applications and spend profiles.
• Oversee subcontractor payment processes in line with contracts and statutory requirements.
• Produce CVRs, forecasts and month-end reports with clear performance analysis.
• Support delivery of project targets by managing costs, risk, profitability and contractual entitlement.
• Assist with negotiating client and subcontract agreements and risk allocation.
• Manage notices, variations, early warnings, compensation events, and other change controls within timescales.
• Prepare and agree quotations for additional cost/time with the project teams.
• Attend client and supply chain meetings as a key commercial representative.
• Coach and mentor junior commercial team members.

Skills

Commercial management

Forecasting

Contract administration

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Education

RICS or equivalent

Tools

Excel

Job description

Job Description

Title: Quantity Surveyor

Location: Warrington

An opportunity has arisen for a Quantity Surveyor to join the team at Galliford Try within our Asset Intelligence business unit

The role will ensure adherence with all Galliford Try and Asset Intelligence process', principals and guidelines in all aspects.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead the commercial management of a portfolio of Asset Intelligence projects, ensuring compliance with Galliford Try processes, governance, and commercial best practice.
• Support the Senior Quantity Surveyor and Managing Quantity Surveyor in delivering commercial strategy and business objectives.
• Build strong working relationships across commercial, operational, delivery, and design teams to drive collaboration and project success.
• Prepare, manage, and monitor cash flow forecasts, identifying and explaining any variances against budgets and projections.
• Maximise cash collection, minimise WIP and debt exposure, and ensure timely submission of client applications and spend profiles.
• Oversee subcontractor application assessments and payment processes, ensuring compliance with contractual and statutory requirements.
• Produce accurate commercial reporting, including CVRs, forecasts, and month-end documentation, providing clear analysis of performance movements.
• Support the delivery of project commercial targets by actively managing costs, risk, profitability, and contractual entitlement.
• Assist with negotiating and administering client and subcontract agreements, ensuring appropriate risk allocation and contractual compliance.
• Manage contractual notices, variations, early warnings, compensation events, and other commercial change controls within required timescales.
• Work closely with project teams to prepare and agree quotations for additional cost and time, securing the business's contractual entitlement.
• Attend and contribute to client and supply chain meetings, acting as a key commercial representative when required.
• Coach and mentor junior commercial team members, supporting their development and promoting commercial awareness across the business.
• Maintain accurate commercial records, registers, reports, and communications to support effective project governance and decision-making.

About You

• Experience in a Quantity Surveyor role, ideally within infrastructure, utilities, engineering, or construction environments.
• Strong commercial and financial management skills, with experience in forecasting, cost control, cash flow management, and reporting.
• Sound understanding of contract administration, change management, and risk management principles.
• Confident communicator with the ability to build effective relationships with clients, supply chain partners, and internal stakeholders.
• Ability to analyse commercial data and provide clear, evidence-based recommendations and reporting.
• Strong negotiation and problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to securing commercial outcomes.
• Well organised with excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Committed to maintaining high standards of governance, compliance, and commercial best practice.
• Experience coaching, supporting, or mentoring colleagues and contributing to team development.
• Working towards or holding a relevant professional qualification (e.g. RICS or equivalent) would be advantageous.

What We Can Offer in Return

With an impressive order book of over £4.3 billion we are one of the industry’s leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK’s most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment. With an ambitious strategy, we’re poised for further growth and success, so if you’re committed, talented and enthusiastic, Galliford Try is the right place for you.

We are committed to maintaining the physical and mental wellbeing of all our people, through our ‘Be Well’ programme which offers discounts on certain products, advice and support for a range of issues.

We invest in high-quality training for employees of all levels, from our leadership development framework to our apprenticeship programmes. Through our Career Paths initiative, individuals receive tailored training and support to fulfil their potential.

Our industry is all about creating talented teams that excel in their areas of expertise. As an employer, we know you are most motivated to give your best when you feel valued and engaged.

Our Agile Working programme empowers you with flexibility in when, where and how you work. Where appropriate, site and office-based employees can take advantage of a wide variety of working practices, offering different amounts of structure, regularity and flexibility to suit your needs as well as those of your wider team.

Our benefits

• Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
• A wide range of corporate discounts
• Cycle to Work schemes
• Comprehensive pension plan
• Competitive family leave policy
• Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
• Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees, and our employee assistance programme also provides free 24/7 support to those who need it
• Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role

About us

Our purpose is to improve people’s lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote the very best working practice and caring for the environment in which we work.

We do this by holding true to our values, delivering excellence for our clients and the community, being passionate about our role in providing vital services, putting integrity at the heart of our business by doing the right thing, and collaborating with our clients, supply chain and stakeholders to deliver lasting change and long-term value.

For more information on this role or to enquire about other positions available within our business please contact Chloe Wharton - [e-mail]

Asset Intelligence

Galliford Try is one of the UK’s leading construction groups with a vision to continuously be a people-orientated, progressive business, driven by our values to deliver lasting change for our stakeholders and the communities we work in.

Our purpose is to improve people’s lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote the very best working practice and caring for the environment in which we work.

We do this by holding true to our values, delivering excellence for our clients and the community, being passionate about our role in providing vital services, putting integrity at the heart of our business by doing the right thing, and collaborating with our clients, supply chain and stakeholders to deliver lasting change and long-term value.

Galliford Try’s Asset Intelligence business works predominantly within the UK’s Critical National Infrastructure market, focussing on Defence, Water, Energy, Transport and Telecommunications sectors. We deliver multi-site security programs, and our expertise in the planning, design and delivery processes, together with our CNI Security knowledge and experience, enables us to efficiently deliver fully integrated physical and electronic security programmes and portfolios of work on critical operational assets.

Additional Information

Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full-time, reduced hours or flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail as part of the recruitment process.

We encourage, and would be grateful if, you could confirm any requirements we can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience for you.

Don’t meet every requirement of the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Galliford Try, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement of the role, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

As a Disability Confident employer, we have committed to offer an interview to any candidate with a long-term health condition or disability that meet the essential criteria for the advertised position. Please contact the Resourcing Partner listed within the job advert if you believe this applies to you. We will also take the opportunity to discuss any adjustments required for your interview.

A full job description for this role is available upon request.