Senior Defence Quantity Surveyor – MoD Projects

Turner & Townsend; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to work in our Defence business in the UK, based in Birmingham with hybrid working. You will lead commercial activity across major programmes, establishing relationships with clients and internal teams, and ensuring cost control, governance and value engineering.

Key duties include contract administration, cost monitoring, forecast reporting and managing contract changes to keep projects within budget and governance.

Qualifications

• Qualification in Estimating, Quantity Surveying or Cost Engineering.
• Experience in Infrastructure sectors (Rail, air, power, highways).

Responsibilities

• Establishing friendly, professional relationships with clients, colleagues and other parties involved in the projects and programmes we support.
• Administering a variety of contracts in accordance with project objectives and policies.
• Providing accurate project cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting to completion in line with budget.
• Pro-actively monitoring and managing cost variance and contract cash flow and ensuring that applications are made correctly and in a timely manner.
• Collaborating with client and contractor teams to manage the delivery of project deliverables, KPIs, and objectives, including programme performance, cost control, and value engineering.
• Managing contract change effectively, ensuring that projects remain within governance and adopt best practice

Skills

Contract Management

Change management

Cost Management

Procurement

Governance processing

Line management

Commission management

MS Excel / Office

Client-facing communication

Education

Qualification in Estimating, Quantity Surveying or Cost Engineering

Chartered status or degree-level education

Tools

Industry standard estimating software

Job description

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to work in our Defence business in the UK, based in Birmingham with hybrid working. You will lead commercial activity across major programmes, establishing relationships with clients and internal teams, and ensuring cost control, governance and value engineering.

Key duties include contract administration, cost monitoring, forecast reporting and managing contract changes to keep projects within budget and governance.