Senior Quantity Surveyor

Randstad Construction and Property; Oxford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad CPE is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join their team after multiple contract awards and new bids. The role covers schemes from £20–£120 million on JCT and NEC contracts, with education, MOD, health and blue‑light projects across the M4 corridor.

You will lead cost planning, cost management, and on-site commercial delivery. Responsibilities include reviewing programmes, pricing with the supply chain, and supervising the commercial team to ensure CVR, payments and variations are

Qualifications

• Senior Quantity Surveyor with experience on large-scale schemes.
• Experience with JCT and NEC forms of contract.
• Ability to manage payments, valuations, and CVR reporting.

Responsibilities

• Review and check programmes and cost plans at the 2nd stage.
• Develop detailed prices with supply chain for scope.
• Manage and supervise on-site packages and pre-start meetings.
• Oversee payments, valuations, variations, and contract administration.

Skills

Quantity surveying

Commercial management

Contract administration

Stakeholder management

Job description

Overview

We are working with the regional office of a Tier 1 contractor — one of the best in the business — who need a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join their team after a number of new contract awards and opportunities to bid. They work on schemes from £20 to £120 million on both JCT and NEC forms of contract, a majority of which are framework awards in the education, MOD, MOJ, health, pharma, student and care marketplaces. They have recently been awarded several blue light schemes which are moving to site late 2026 and also have a number of high profile opportunities to bid for around the M4 corridor.

Responsibilities

Your role is to work initially at the 2nd stage to review and check programmes and cost plans, then work with the supply chain to develop detailed prices for the scope of agreed works and convert them into subcontract orders. On larger schemes you will work with a commercial team to manage, supervise and develop including experienced project‑level people as well as assistant and trainee level staff. With the team you will be responsible for taking projects onto site, conducting pre‑start meetings, and then managing and supervising the package on site. Duties include oversight of payments, valuations, variation accounts, administering contracts correctly, forecasting and CVR preparation and presenting to Regional Commercial Directors.

They have experienced commercial teams to integrate into and the commercial function works seamlessly with both pre‑construction and delivery teams to build interesting schemes.

Company and application information

Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are happy to discuss reasonable adjustments or additional arrangements as required to support your application. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK. For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

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