Quantity Surveyor

Babcock; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched contribution pension scheme

Life assurance

Aviva DigiCare+ access

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear is seeking a Quantity Surveyor to provide commercial support across projects at Dalton Avenue in Warrington, UK. The role emphasises managing contractual obligations, driving commercial performance, and ensuring governance and compliance within NEC-driven projects.

The position is full-time and hybrid, with three days onsite. A degree in Quantity Surveying or equivalent is required, alongside experience in commercial activities across engineering or construction sectors, to

Qualifications

• Experience with NEC3/NEC4 contracts.
• Ability to manage stakeholder and customer relationships.
• Experience supporting commercial activities across engineering, construction, infrastructure or manufacturing projects.
• Understanding of contract administration, change management and governance processes.
• Experience working collaboratively within project delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide commercial support across project activities including change management, compensation events, contractual notices and governance reviews.
• Support the project team with all commercial aspects of project delivery.
• Develop strong relationships with customers, suppliers and internal stakeholders to achieve shared objectives.
• Manage subcontract commercial activities during project execution and mitigate exposure to subcontractor claims.
• Ensure contractual procedures, compliance requirements and commercial notices are issued accurately and on time.

Skills

NEC3/NEC4

Stakeholder management

Commercial governance

Contract administration

Change management

Team collaboration

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying

Job description

Select how often (in days) to receive an alert:

Quantity Surveyor

Location: Warrington, GB, WA3 6YD

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Quantity Surveyor

Location: Warrington, Cheshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76952

Influence major projects while building a career that delivers real impact

At Cavendish Nuclear, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Quantity Surveyor at Dalton Avenue, near Warrington, Cheshire.

The role

As a Quantity Surveyor, you'll provide commercial support and expertise across project activities, helping to drive both strategic value and operational excellence. You'll work closely with Project Managers, customers, suppliers and subcontractors to ensure contractual obligations are managed effectively while maximising commercial performance and maintaining compliance.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Providing commercial support across project activities including change management, compensation events, contractual notices and governance reviews.
• Supporting the project team with all commercial aspects of project delivery.
• Developing strong relationships with customers, suppliers and internal stakeholders to achieve shared objectives.
• Managing subcontract commercial activities during project execution and mitigating exposure to subcontractor claims.
• Ensuring contractual procedures, compliance requirements and commercial notices are issued accurately and on time.

This is a full-time role working 37 hours per week, based at Dalton Avenue, Warrington. Hybrid working patterns are available with an expectation of three days onsite.

Essential experience of the Quantity Surveyor:

• Experience working with NEC3 or NEC4 contracts.
• Experience developing and maintaining positive stakeholder and customer relationships.
• Experience supporting commercial activities across engineering, construction, infrastructure or manufacturing projects.
• Understanding of contract administration, change management and commercial governance processes.
• Experience working collaboratively within project delivery teams.

Qualifications for the Quantity Surveyor:

• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Building Services Quantity Surveying, or equivalent relevant qualification, or demonstrable experience in a Quantity Surveying role.
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

We're Cavendish Nuclear - a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.

Here, you'll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we're shaping a future that lasts - not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-balance.

Join us and discover how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

#CAVDESTNUC