Quantity Surveyor / Senior QS

Dowds; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

41 Days Holiday

Early Finish Fridays

Private Medical

Bonus

Wellbeing Initiatives

Pension

Work from home

Job summary

Dowds in London is seeking a qualified Quantity Surveyor to join our commercial team on large-scale infrastructure projects. You will oversee commercial activities from pre-construction through handover, ensuring value and financial control.

You will manage valuations, variations, cost-to-complete reviews, final accounts, and risk mitigation with delivery teams. Dowds offers enhanced benefits, career progression, and a flexible work-from-home option.

Qualifications

• Experience within a QS position at this level covering the responsibilities listed.
• Experience in commercial sectors.
• Knowledge working on construction projects from Pre Construction to handover.

Responsibilities

• Commercial and financial management: Full commercial ownership of projects, including valuations, variations, cost-to-complete reviews, final accounts, and overall financial control.
• Contract and risk management: Strong contract awareness, reviewing terms and conditions, assessing commercial risk, mitigating delays, and developing risk mitigation plans with delivery teams.
• Tendering and pre-contract support: Supporting the proposals team during tenders, evaluating risk and opportunity, issuing and assessing subcontract tender packages, and attending pre-and post-tender meetings.
• Supply chain and subcontract management: Procuring subcontractors, negotiating terms, and managing subcontract accounts from tender through to interim and final account agreement.
• Claims, negotiations, and reviews: Preparation and submission of variation and claims, negotiating with clients, suppliers, and subcontractors, and attending internal and external commercial review meetings.
• Value optimisation and continuous improvement: Maximising value and minimising cost through robust controls, productivity analysis, and close collaboration with commercial and operational teams to drive continuous improvement.

Skills

QS experience

Commercial sector experience

Pre-construction to handover know-how

Job description

Dowds is a long established, multidisciplinary engineering and construction Building Services Engineering company headquartered in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. Founded in 1978, our expertise spans the full lifecycle of complex-built environments from initial design and systems integration through to installation, commissioning, and handover. Across specific sectors: life science, commercial, education and healthcare.

Operating at a gold standard for best managed company and investors in people, our vision is to set the standard for excellence, driving progress, responsibility, and lasting impact. While keeping our clients and our people at the heart of what we do.

Dowds are seeking a Quantity Surveyor to join our commercial team in London. This opportunity will work across large scale infrastructure projects which are strategically aligned to our partnerships and future direction. At Dowds we continue to invest into our people with recent enhanced benefits package, and longer career progression, and we’d like you to be part of this journey with us.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

• Commercial and financial management: Full commercial ownership of projects, including valuations, variations, cost-to-complete reviews, final accounts, and overall financial control.
• Contract and risk management: Strong contract awareness, reviewing terms and conditions, assessing commercial risk, mitigating delays, and developing risk mitigation plans with delivery teams.
• Tendering and pre-contract support: Supporting the proposals team during tenders, evaluating risk and opportunity, issuing and assessing subcontract tender packages, and attending pre-and post-tender meetings.
• Supply chain and subcontract management: Procuring subcontractors, negotiating terms, and managing subcontract accounts from tender through to interim and final account agreement.
• Claims, negotiations, and reviews: Preparation and submission of variation and claims, negotiating with clients, suppliers, and subcontractors, and attending internal and external commercial review meetings.
• Value optimisation and continuous improvement: Maximising value and minimising cost through robust controls, productivity analysis, and close collaboration with commercial and operational teams to drive continuous improvement.

Essential

• Experience within a QS position of this level covering the above responsibilities
• Experience in commercial sectors
• Knowledge working on construction projects from Pre Construction to handover

What we are looking for

• Experience within a QS position of this level covering the above responsibilities
• Experience in commercial sectors
• Knowledge working on construction projects from Pre Construction to handover

Desirable

• Experience within MEP sector
• Direct reporting

Why Join Dowds

• 41 Days Holiday
• Early Finish Fridays
• Private Medical
• Bonus
• Wellbeing Initiatives
• Pension
• Work from home
• Plus, many more

Dowds is an Equal Opportunities Employer