Senior Quantity Surveyor

NG Bailey; Reading; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Pension with employer contributions

Private healthcare

Employee assistance program

Discounts

Personal development

Flexible benefits

London travel allowance

Job summary

NG Bailey are looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our team on a commercial build project in Reading. The role requires extensive experience in quantity surveying with an M&E background and a solid understanding of NEC3/4 contracts.

You will manage changes, subcontracts, and payments, ensuring commercial performance and risk control. You will work closely with operations to produce accurate reports, maintain records, and secure project entitlements.

Qualifications

• Experience as Quantity Surveyor with an M&E background.
• Degree or HNC level qualification and/or significant experience.
• Experience of change and subcontract management
• Good understanding of NEC3/4 contracts (desirable)

Responsibilities

• Ensure safety is visible in all project activities.
• Comply with legal and company policies and contractual obligations.
• Understand project contracts and manage risk and opportunities to commercially mitigate or enhance.
• Maintain records to maximise contractual entitlements.
• Communicate with operations on risk and contract terms and conditions.

Skills

Quantity surveying

Risk management

Contract administration

Education

Degree or HNC in relevant field

Job description

Reading

Permanent

NG Bailey are currently searching for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our team to work on a commercial build project in Reading.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that our safety first and foremost message is visible and alive through all activities on the project.
• Ensure the use of, and compliance to, legal and company policies and processes in line with contractual obligations.
• Understand project contract terms, manage risks and opportunities, ensuring they are commercially mitigated or enhanced. Identify any changes in line with NG Bailey's contractual obligations.
• Maintain all records in order to maximise contractual entitlements.
• Communicate with the operational teams on risk and contract terms and conditions and have a continual understanding of project status.
• Prepare, submit applications, and secure recovery of payment, with substantiation of compensation or variations.
• With support, manage sub-contract accounts through to final account settlement.
• Monitor and control progress with the operational team, providing accurate internal reporting.
• Ensure availability of all project reports, applications, certificates, payments, timeliness and quality of delivery, and tender allowances.
• With support, negotiate to settle the project account with the client.

Requirements

• Previous experience as a Quantity Surveyor with an M&E background.
• A degree/HNC level qualification and/or significant experience.
• Experience of change and subcontract management
• A good understanding of NEC3/4 contracts (desirable)
• Will need to be able to gain Security Clearance.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday per annum, plus bank holidays
• Pension with leading provider and up to 8% employer contribution
• Private healthcare
• Free 24/7 365 Employee assistance program to support mental health and wellbeing (including counselling sessions and legal advice)
• Discounts
• Personal development programme
• Flexible Benefits
• London Travel Allowance

Next Steps:

As a business, we're on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation.

We'll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notice. If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.

About Us:

We are one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training.

Working across a variety of sectors within the building and infrastructure industry, our innovative, responsible and forward-thinking approach allows us to work on fantastic ground-breaking projects, providing solutions using the latest tools and technologies.

Progression is something we value, and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be.