Senior Quantity Surveyor

Mott MacDonald; Brighton; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join a forward-thinking consultancy dedicated to improving society through engineering and development. In this role, you will collaborate with client teams to deliver complex infrastructure projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and to high-quality standards. This position offers exposure to a diverse range of projects while promoting a culture of safety and excellence. Join a team that values diversity, innovation, and professional growth, and make a meaningful impact on the communities we serve.

Benefits

Pension matched up to 7%

Life insurance

Annual professional institution subscription

Continuous development opportunities

Agile/flexible working

Enhanced parental leave

Flexible benefits

Wellbeing support

Access to Advanced Employee Networks

Qualifications

• Chartered Quantity Surveyor with extensive NEC4 Contracts experience.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills essential for client management.

Responsibilities

• Provide robust estimates aligned to project scope and risks.
• Manage contracts and ensure compliance with requirements.
• Develop strong client relationships and proactive risk management.

Skills

Chartered Quantity Surveyor (MRICS)

NEC4 Contracts

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving

Team Management

Client Relationship Management

Presentation Skills

Flexibility and Adaptability

Commercial Awareness

Education

Chartered Quantity Surveyor Qualification

Job description

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Market: Environment and society

Discipline: Cost and quantity surveying

Job Ref: 6760

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities, and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

Overview of the role

Owing to the expansion of our Environment and Water portfolio, we have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join us on a permanent basis. The successful applicant will exhibit a keen enthusiasm for collaborating with our client teams to ensure the successful delivery of their complex projects on schedule, within budget, and to high-quality standards, while upholding a strong commitment to safety. This exceptional opportunity provides the successful candidate with exposure to complex infrastructure projects in the UK.

What you will contribute to the team:

• Ensuring robust estimates are provided that are aligned to scope and make due allowance for all risks and opportunities.
• Managing commercial inputs to the procurement process including ensuring that strategies are developed and agreed.
• Contracts are properly managed and administered in accordance with contract requirements including compliance with all responses to communications, payments, programme submissions, etc.
• Ensuring robust cost management is undertaken at all times, taking a proactive approach, providing solutions with a ‘can do’ attitude.
• Ownership of accurate commercial reporting.
• Proactive management of project and programme risk including ensuring that mitigation plans are in place and implemented.
• Development of strong client relationships across its organisation.

Required for the position of Senior Quantity Surveyor:

• Chartered Quantity Surveyor (MRICS).
• Extensive experience with NEC4 Contracts.
• Skilled in prioritizing tasks and performing well under pressure.
• Capable of building and maintaining strong relationships with clients and colleagues.
• Exceptional presentation and communication abilities.
• Flexible and adaptable in approach to work.
• Technically and commercially proficient, delivering comprehensive pre and post-contract services.
• Strong problem-solving and advisory skills.
• Proactive and self-motivated.
• Effective team management capabilities.
• Able to make well-reasoned, timely decisions considering the needs of the situation, clients, and team members.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred, but not required:

• Knowledge and expertise of projects within the Environment/water/wastewater industry sector.
• Experience of working on flood risk management projects.

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognize that differences in ability, skills, and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

About the business unit
Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors. We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world-leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services.

Environment & water

Our multidisciplinary experts help water, wastewater, and government organisations find sustainable, cost-effective solutions to the challenges of climate change, net-zero, water scarcity, and environmental protection.

We work with around half of the UK’s regulated water and wastewater companies, and our work stretches across the entire project lifecycle - from pre-contract cost estimating and benchmarking to post-contract quantity surveying and commercial assurance.

For project and programme management, we deliver capital projects on behalf of our clients, both internal and external that range from several hundred thousand pounds in value to major projects and programmes worth over £0.5bn.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at [e-mail] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• Pension matched up to 7%.
• Life insurance.
• An annual professional institution subscription.
• Continuous development opportunities – because we want you to thrive.
• Agile/flexible working – because life isn’t 9-5.
• Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies – for parents and caregivers.
• Flexible benefits that suit you, including the ability to buy/sell annual leave entitlement, cycle to work & interest-free season ticket loans.
• Wellbeing support including access to an independent Employer Assistance Scheme, wellbeing champions, and access to learning and support resources.
• Access to our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.