Senior Quantity Surveyor

weServed; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 62,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension scheme

Employee share scheme

Digital GP and health checks

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor at its Devonport Royal Dockyard site in Plymouth, offering hybrid working with 3 days onsite and 2 days remote. You will provide commercial leadership across major defence projects, administering NEC3/JCT contracts and protecting value while managing risk.

The role requires a degree in Quantity Surveying and a track record of large, complex contracts, with strong cost control and stakeholder relationship skills. Competitive package and benefits apply.

Qualifications

• Degree in Quantity Surveying or equivalent.
• Experience with NEC3/JCT contracts.
• Experience on large/complex contracts including bids.
• Strong cost control, change management and risk handling.
• Proven ability to build and maintain stakeholder relationships.

Responsibilities

• Managing commercial activities across infrastructure and engineering projects throughout the contract lifecycle.
• Supporting contract administration, commercial governance, and financial performance management.
• Administering NEC3 and/or JCT contracts, including change management and compensation events.
• Collaborating with project managers, suppliers, finance teams, and stakeholders to manage commercial risk and deliver project objectives.
• Developing commercial strategies, monitoring costs, and contributing to successful project delivery outcomes.

Skills

Commercial leadership

Stakeholder management

Cost control & change management

Relationship building

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying

Tools

NEC3 contracts

JCT contracts

Job description

Job Title: Senior Quantity Surveyor

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £62,500 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74623

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Quantity Surveyor at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you’ll play a key role in delivering some of the UK's most complex and strategically important infrastructure and engineering programmes within Babcock's Naval Nuclear business. Working at the heart of the defence sector, you'll provide commercial leadership across major projects, helping to ensure successful delivery while protecting commercial interests, managing risk, and maximising value.

Day-to-day, you’ll collaborate with project teams, suppliers, and customers to support programmes that contribute directly to national security and critical public infrastructure. In return, you'll gain exposure to high-profile projects, develop your commercial expertise in a highly regulated environment, and build a long-term career with a global engineering organisation.

• Managing commercial activities across infrastructure and engineering projects throughout the contract lifecycle.
• Supporting contract administration, commercial governance, and financial performance management.
• Administering NEC3 and/or JCT contracts, including change management and compensation events.
• Collaborating with project managers, suppliers, finance teams, and stakeholders to manage commercial risk and deliver project objectives.
• Developing commercial strategies, monitoring costs, and contributing to successful project delivery outcomes.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Quantity Surveyor

• Strong commercial management experience within engineering and/or construction environments.
• Detailed knowledge and practical application of NEC3 and/or JCT contracts.
• Experience supporting large, complex contracts, bids, and commercial strategies.
• Strong understanding of cost control, change management, compensation events, and commercial risk management.
• Proven ability to build effective relationships with stakeholders and supply chain partners to achieve project milestones.

Qualifications for the Senior Quantity Surveyor

Essential

• Degree, or equivalent qualification, in Quantity Surveying or Building Services Quantity Surveying.

Desirable

• Professional membership or working towards chartered status with a relevant professional body.
• Additional commercial or contract management qualifications.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 19/08/2026

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