Senior Quantity Surveyor

Balfour Beatty plc; Norwich; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working (up to 40% remote)

25 days annual leave

Family-friendly policies

Pension

Share incentive plan

Volunteering leave

Recognition schemes

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor for its Norwich-based hybrid role. You will act as the commercial conscience within the integrated delivery team, ensuring cost control, value maximisation and compliance with governance across the alliance.

In AMP8, you’ll oversee cost management and reporting, support on-site delivery, and drive improvements to contractual processes while maintaining safety and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in managing costs.
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to drive value.
• Proven leadership and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of commercial and cost management for designated projects.
• Provide robust cost reports, data and analyses to guide commercial decisions.
• Ensure understanding of contract arrangements by project teams and clients.
• Collaborate with Delivery Team to identify, implement and monitor efficiency plans across the project lifecycle.
• Maintain proper records including final accounts for audits and cost assurance.

Skills

Cost management

Commercial awareness

Leadership

Client liaison

Risk management

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Job description

About The Role

Senior Quantity Surveyor – Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

Location: Norwich (hybrid working; 2–3 days per week office‑based)

@one Alliance a ground‑breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and seven industry‑leading partners: Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. Together, we deliver over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.

As we enter AMP8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period, we are preparing to undertake our largest project yet. This is a unique opportunity to drive industry change, set global standards, and foster career growth.

As our new Senior Quantity Surveyor, you’ll act as the commercial conscious to the integrated delivery team, providing commercial support to both the delivery management and on‑site delivery teams. Ensuring that that operations are carried out to control costs, maximise value, minimise future liabilities and maintain the required standard of quality and safety, you’ll also oversee the full compliance with the Alliance and Anglian Water governance procedures on a consistent basis.

What you'll be doing

Key responsibilities:

• Manage all aspects of commercial and cost management of a project or group of projects as designated by the Project Commercial Manager.
• Ensure robust cost management processes are always undertaken with accurate and timely reports, data and analysis on hand to assist in commercial decisions.
• Ensure that all project team members (including site staff) understand the contractual arrangements, in order to satisfy Client & Partner organisation requirements.
• Work in collaboration with the Delivery Team to identify, implement and monitor efficiency plans throughout the lifecycle of a project or programme of projects.
• Ensuring that proper records (including final accounts) are kept & maintained so financial information for audits and cost assurance is readily available.

Who we're looking for

A little bit about your skills, experience and behaviours….

To Be Considered For This Position, You’ll Have

• Extensive experience in managing costs.
• The passion and desire to pursue a career in Commercial Management is more important.
• First‑class customer service and leadership skills.
• In‑depth knowledge of construction and safety and be comfortable challenging processes, practices, and norms to improve the overall commercial offering to the business.
• A degree (or equivalent) in an engineering/ management/ cost discipline would be beneficial.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to play a key role, influence outcomes, and develop their career within an industry‑leading alliance.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

Benefits

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About Us

Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [e-mail]