Senior Quantity Surveyor

M Group Water; Reading; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading infrastructure services company as a Senior Quantity Surveyor in Reading. You'll manage subcontractors, mentor junior staff, and oversee wastewater network upgrades. The role emphasizes commercial acumen and offers a supportive environment with numerous benefits.

Benefits

Matched pension scheme

Online GP service

Employee assistance programme

Life assurance

Cycle to work scheme

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Company car and fuel card

Health Care Cash Plan

Discretionary bonus scheme

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Experience as a Senior Quantity Surveyor or similar level in civil engineering.
• Ability to manage and mentor Quantity Surveyors.

Responsibilities

• Manage procurement and subcontractors for wastewater network upgrades.
• Produce CVRs and applications for payment.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities.

Skills

Commercially astute

Education

BSc in Quantity Surveying

Job description

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

This role will be within our water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.

Want to be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

As our Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll be working on our Thames Water Capital Delivery contract in Reading area. The works will consist of wastewater network upgrade (Rising & Gravity Main, Trenchless Crossing) in Thames Valley.

You'll provide effective procurement and management of subcontractors, from agreement of terms and conditions, risk attribution and scope through to Final Account.

You'll manage and mentor Quantity Surveyor / Assistant Quantity Surveyors and work closely with the operational teams.

You will be administering the bespoke Principal Contract containing, among others, elements of NEC and I Chem E Burgundy Book. Manage change through the early warning and variation process with both the Client and the subcontractors alike. Value and Margin maximisation.

You'll be producing or supporting with the production of CVRs, applications for payment and costs forecasts. Close monitoring of staff, material, plant and other resources on site.

Seeking out opportunities and challenging practices, planning and approaches where cost savings are identified.

What you’ll bring

• Experience as a Senior Quantity Surveyor, or a similar level within a civil engineering or utilities contractor.
• Commercially astute.
• A BSc in Quantity Surveying or similar qualification.

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to thousands of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers;

• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice, our salary sacrifice EV/Hybrid car scheme
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for dental, eye care, physiotherapy, and more
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry-recognised programmes, training, and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, we may close job adverts before the stated closing date. We’d encourage you to apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to third-party background checks as part of our hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of our induction.