Senior Quantity Surveyor

Balfour Beatty; Reading; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Balfour Beatty Highways is offering an exciting opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join the M4 Smart Motorway Junction 3-12 scheme in Reading. The successful candidate will support project development, provide commercial advice, and oversee procurement processes while ensuring adherence to contract requirements. Joining a leading company, you'll benefit from a competitive salary, flexible working options, and a wide range of employee perks, making a positive impact on infrastructure across the UK.

Benefits

Attractive salary

42 core base hours per week

23 days annual leave

Pension savings schemes

Refer a friend bonus scheme

Flexible working options

Employee discounts and offers

Qualifications

• Relevant degree or equivalent required.
• Experience of civil engineering construction and highways sector.
• Planning to attain relevant post-degree qualification is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with contract requirements.
• Manage subcontract procurement and administration.
• Forecast cashflow and prepare weekly reports.

Skills

Civil engineering construction

Highways sector experience

Risk Management

Cashflow forecasting

Education

Relevant construction or business degree

Post-degree qualification (in progress or attained)

Tools

Computers

Job description

About the role

OurBalfour Beatty Highwaysbusiness has a terrific opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyorto join our M4 Smart Motorway Junction 3-12 scheme. Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play. We provide high quality asset strategy, management and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers.

We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will be supporting project development and delivery. In conjunction with the Commercial Manager provides contractual and commercial advice to the project team.

What you'll be doing

• Contract requirements related to Project are complied with in full
• Subcontract procurement
• Subcontract administration:
  • Timely instructions are issued to the supply chain with appropriate governance having been secured.
  • The supply chain is paid in accordance with contractual arrangements.
  • Supply chain variations are effectively managed.
• Early warnings and compensation events are produced in accordance with the requirements of the contract
• Risk Management
• Cashflow forecasting
• Ensure effective control of costs in all activity
• Weekly reporting
• Liaison within the team, with other teams and the supply chain.

Who we're looking for

• Relevant construction or business degree, or equivalent
• Has attained or is planning to attain a relevant post-degree qualification
• Full driving licence
• Computer literate
• Experience of civil engineering construction
• Experience in the highways sector

Still interested? then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.

An excellent range of benefits awaits the successful candidate: -

• An attractive / negotiated salary
• 42 core base hours per week
• 23 days annual leave
• Pension savings schemes
• A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, exclusive offers etc)
• Refer a friend bonus scheme
• Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available as well via our balfourbeattycareers.com portal.

Why work for us

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

We are 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]