Senior Quantity Surveyor

Peoplebank; Exeter; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the UK seeks a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join their Exeter team. With over six decades of experience, you'll support vital infrastructure projects while promoting a sustainable approach. Strong commercial awareness and a proven track record in contract management are essential for this role, alongside negotiation skills and team leadership capabilities.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Pension plan

Healthcare

24-26 days holiday allowance

Employee benefits programme with discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Extensive commercial experience in contractor environment.
• Proven ability to motivate teams toward shared goals.
• Demonstrable expertise in managing complex contracts.

Responsibilities

• Support commercial leadership and maximize profitability.
• Manage and train a team of professionals.
• Assist in budget development and cost control.

Skills

Commercial awareness

Negotiation

Relationship building

Attention to detail

Resourceful

Job description

That’s why we need people like you, to help us deliver on our promises. People who enjoy getting things done with a focus on cost controls and profitability.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our team, to play an important role in helping us to achieve our vision of building a World where all infrastructure is sustainably built and maintained.

With over six decades of experience and an excellent reputation, we have been chosen to support South West Water (SWW), to deliver an exciting programme of works, aimed at strengthening and future-proofing the water and wastewater networks across the region.

Here a some of the activities you will be involved in…

• Support commercial leadership on the contract by fully understanding the company’s rights and obligations, helping to maximise profitability and mitigate risks.
• Provide line management to a team of professionals, promoting effective commercial management while ensuring personnel are trained and competent to meet company and contract goals.
• Build and maintain strong long-term relationships with internal and external teams, using negotiation and persuasion to meet business needs.
• Assist in the development of budgets and cost controls, contributing to the achievement of financial and project targets.
• Contribute to the weekly and monthly cost value reconciliation process by supplying accurate and timely data for informed decision-making.
• Effectively manage cash flow by maximising income and reducing exposure to work in progress.
• Identify, price, and negotiate variations to the contract scope in accordance with contractual obligations.
• Oversee the engagement of subcontracts at appropriate rates and terms, ensuring administration aligns with company procedures and contractual requirements, and reflects the value and risk of the subcontracted works.

We would love to hear from you if…

You possess a positive, can-do attitude and bring extensive commercial experience within a contractor environment, with a proven ability to motivate teams toward shared goals. You have demonstrable expertise in managing a variety of contracts, including complex contractual arrangements, and possess significant technical construction knowledge. Your strong commercial awareness is underpinned by clearly evidenced experience at a Senior Quantity Surveyor level. With excellent verbal and written communication skills, you are adept at building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders at all levels. Resourceful and detail-oriented, you perform well under pressure and consistently deliver high standards of work.

Our Company

Every day we work smarter, greener and use our imaginations.

Our purpose at Clancy is simple - we make life better for everyone’s growing families. We play a vital role in providing fresh drinking water and power to millions of homes and businesses and so much more.

We are one of the biggest family owned construction businesses in the UK and we care about our people, our clients and the environment.

What Next

You apply, and we respond within two weeks (we know how annoying it is not to hear anything back)! If you don’t receive feedback within that timescale, please don’t be afraid to chase us - one of our values is to do what we say we will do!

In addition to helping you reach your career goals, a competitive salary, pension, healthcare and holiday allowance starting at 24-26 days per annum, we also offer perks including Clancy Xtras, our employee benefits programme with discounts for numerous well-known retailers such as Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Currys PC World and Vue Cinemas, cycle to work scheme as well as an Employee Assistance Programme.

Clancy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made for you to attend an interview, please do let us know and we will be happy to accommodate.

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and Disability Confident Committed.