Senior Quantity Surveyor

Balfour Beatty plc; Reading; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in the construction sector as a Senior Quantity Surveyor, where you'll impact the commercial success of major infrastructure projects. This role offers opportunities for career growth and a commitment to a diverse and inclusive work environment. Lead teams, manage costs, and ensure project quality while benefiting from professional development and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Pension Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Generous Annual Leave

Share Plan

Volunteering Leave

Qualifications

• The role requires a BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent.
• Membership of RICS, ICES, or CIOB is essential.
• Experience managing costs for building and civil engineering projects is important.

Responsibilities

• Manage all costs related to building and civil engineering projects.
• Prepare activity schedules, resource schedules, and analyze tender documents.
• Monitor subcontract activities and report on commercial progress.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Team Leadership

Communication

Cost Engineering

Education

BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying

Membership of RICS, ICES or CIOB

Job description

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About The Role

Shape the commercial success of inspiring infrastructure projects as a Senior Quantity Surveyor. You’ll join for our stability, award-winning training and huge scope for career development. You’ll stay for our culture that feels like family in an organisation that’s the biggest of its kind. From community-based projects to the UK’s biggest engineering works, we’ve a presence in almost every market. This is your chance to grow with us.

About The Role

Shape the commercial success of inspiring infrastructure projects as a Senior Quantity Surveyor. You’ll join for our stability, award-winning training and huge scope for career development. You’ll stay for our culture that feels like family in an organisation that’s the biggest of its kind. From community-based projects to the UK’s biggest engineering works, we’ve a presence in almost every market. This is your chance to grow with us.

As part of our Regional Buildings division, as a Senior Quantity Surveyor you will have a track record in managing all costs relating to building and civil engineering projects, from the initial calculations to the final figures. Seeking to minimise the costs of a project and enhance value for money, while still achieving the required standards and quality. Typically, you will be a Chartered Member of the RICS, ICES or CIOB. Experience of managing a small team of less experienced commercial staff as well as mentoring others on their journey to becoming professionally qualified.

You will be part of the project team responsible for the design and build of a state of the art engineering and laboratory work spaces for a high security site in Reading.

The project consists of 5 new build facilities featuring a truly breath-taking street environment which connects the new offices, learning spaces and science laboratories with the natural environment.

What you'll be doing

• Analytical Thinking & Decision Making
• Orders information and systematically checks data
• Cost Engineering
• Prepares Activity Schedules, Resource Schedules & analyses tender documents
• Estimating
• Critically appraises, estimates and negotiates the above with 3rd parties
• Planning
• Reviews complex contract programmes such as Time-Location,
• Assists with the preparation of delay and disruption programmes
• Project Management
• Monitors subcontract activities, measure and respond appropriately
• Analyses the commercial progress and report to senior project staff
• Procurement
• Undertakes constructability analyses using construction programmes
• Prepares procurement programme and helps develop the strategy
• Commercial Management
• Analyses rates & prices, agreement of variations and or compensation events as required
• Prepares, submits and negotiates claims when required
• Prepares Internal reports, commercial progress and financial reconciliation
• Development, Recruitment and Retention
• Maintains own Personal Development Plan
• Actively supports the development of others
• Produces plans for team to achieve goals / aspirations
• Supports recruitment of lower grades
  
  

Who we're looking for

The Following Qualifications Are Essential

• BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or experience equivalent
• Membership of RICS, ICES or CIOB (or working towards)
  
  

The Following Qualities/experience Are Desirable

• Communication
• Teamwork / Role Model
• Leadership
• Achievement Focus (Achieving Results)
• Business and Customer Awareness
• Applies organisational aims & objectives
• Identifies with the customer needs
• Recognises opportunities & threat
  
  

Why work for us

If you’re inspired by the chance to grow like never before through meaningful work, join us as a Senior Quantity Surveyor. As well as benefits that include a share plan, pension, recognition scheme, employee assistance programme and generous annual and volunteering leave, you’ll be safe, seen, heard and respected throughout your career with us. You’ll also discover Smart Working. It’s our flexible approach to when, where and how you work, and at the heart of a warm and inclusive culture that supports you to be you. Apply now.

About Us

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone D&I Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. Our Smart Working policy enables employees to work flexibly where operationally possible, and we would be happy to explore this with you.

To find out more about our Value Everyone D&I Strategy and Action Plan, visit our website at https://www.balfourbeatty.com/how-we-work/diversity-and-inclusion/

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with disabled people and people with 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.

Further information about Disability Confident can be found at https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Construction

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