Senior Quantity Surveyor

Balfour Beatty plc; Redcar; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

25 days annual leave

Pension

Share incentive plan

Volunteering leave

Recognition schemes

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to lead commercial management on the Net Zero Teesside project, ensuring robust governance and effective change control across challenging industrial works.

You will manage costs from initial estimates to final accounts, mentor junior team members, and collaborate with clients and supply chains to maximise value for money while delivering on time and to the required quality standards.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Senior Quantity Surveyor on major construction or industrial projects.
• Strong commercial management with the ability to control costs from estimates to final accounts.
• Expertise in change control and negotiation of compensation events under NEC contracts.
• Understanding of contract administration, governance, risk, and opportunity management.
• Experience collaborating with clients and project teams to secure timely change agreements.

Responsibilities

• Manage all commercial and contractual aspects of designated work packages, ensuring cost control from estimates to final accounts.
• Support the Commercial Manager/MQS in delivering the NZT project with governance compliance.
• Lead client change management, pricing, negotiating, and securing compensation events promptly.
• Ensure contract adherence and proactively manage risks and opportunities.
• Produce valuations, forecasts, cost reports, and commercial submissions for decision-making.

Skills

Contract management

Change control

NEC contracts

Cost reporting

Final account settlement

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Team leadership

Mentoring

Education

Chartered status (RICS/CICES/CIOB)

Tools

NEC contract administration

Job description

About The Role

Join Balfour Beatty's Regional Civils division and play a key role in delivering one of the UK's most significant decarbonisation projects. As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll be part of the team delivering works on the landmark Net Zero Teesside (NZT) project, an industry-leading development that aims to kick-start the decarbonisation of the Teesside industrial cluster and help create the UK's first zero-carbon industrial cluster. Working within our UKCS Regional Civils business, you'll contribute to the successful delivery of a complex programme of industrial infrastructure, including sub-stations, control rooms, storage facilities, welfare and laboratory buildings, and water treatment plants. The wider project comprises a large-scale power generation plant with an advanced post-combustion carbon capture system, placing NZT at the forefront of sustainable energy infrastructure and innovation. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor with a strong background in commercial management, change control and administration of compensation events to apply their expertise on a nationally significant project. Working as part of Balfour Beatty's Regional Civils division, you'll be instrumental in managing project change, maximising commercial opportunities, and ensuring robust commercial governance across a complex and technically challenging programme of works, while helping to deliver infrastructure that will support the UK's journey towards a lower-carbon future.

What you'll be doing

• Managing all commercial and contractual aspects of designated work packages, ensuring effective cost control from initial estimates through to final account settlement.
• Supporting the Commercial Manager/MQS in the successful delivery of the Net Zero Teesside project, maintaining commercial governance and ensuring compliance with contractual requirements.
• Taking a lead role in the management of client change, identifying, pricing, negotiating and securing agreement of compensation events in a timely manner.
• Ensuring contract adherence across the project, proactively managing commercial risks and opportunities to protect and enhance project performance.
• Producing robust valuations, forecasts, cost reports and commercial submissions to support effective decision-making throughout the project lifecycle.
• Minimising project costs while maximising value for money, ensuring the required standards, quality and project objectives are achieved.
• Developing and maintaining strong working relationships with project teams, clients, supply chain partners and key stakeholders to drive successful commercial outcomes.
• Managing subcontractor procurement, administration and account management, ensuring contractual obligations are met and commercial performance is maximised.
• Providing commercial support to project delivery teams, offering expert advice on contractual matters, change control and cost management.
• Leading, managing and developing less experienced members of the commercial team, providing day-to-day guidance, support and technical expertise.
• Mentoring and coaching Assistant Quantity Surveyors and Quantity Surveyors in their professional development, including supporting their journey towards chartership and professional qualifications.
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of commercial processes, helping to drive best practice across Balfour Beatty's Regional Civils division.

Who we're looking for

• Proven experience as a Senior Quantity Surveyor within major construction, civil engineering, infrastructure or industrial projects.
• Strong commercial management experience with the ability to manage project costs from initial estimates through to final account settlement.
• Demonstrable expertise in change control, including identifying, pricing, negotiating and securing agreement of compensation events under NEC contracts.
• A thorough understanding of contract administration, contractual compliance and the management of commercial risk and opportunity.
• Experience of working closely with clients and project teams to ensure timely agreement of change and successful commercial outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of cost reporting, forecasting, valuations and commercial governance processes.
• The ability to minimise project costs, maximise value for money and maintain the highest standards of quality and performance.
• Proven experience managing subcontractor accounts and maintaining effective commercial relationships across the supply chain.
• Excellent negotiation, communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence decisions at all levels.
• Experience leading, managing and developing Assistant Quantity Surveyors, Quantity Surveyors or other junior commercial professionals.
• A passion for mentoring and supporting colleagues on their journey towards professional qualifications and chartership.
• Membership of a relevant professional institution, such as RICS, CICES or CIOB, ideally at Chartered status.
• A proactive and collaborative approach, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced and complex project environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen eye for detail and commercial opportunity.
• A commitment to delivering safe, sustainable and commercially successful outcomes on major infrastructure projects.

Desirable

• Previous experience working on NEC contracts in a change-driven environment.
• Experience on large-scale industrial, energy, power generation, process engineering or decarbonisation projects.
• Chartered status with RICS, CICES or CIOB.
• Experience working within a principal contractor environment on complex, multidisciplinary projects.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

Benefits

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

With a strong track record of delivery, our civils teams connect communities through infrastructure projects in the highways, public realm, rail, flood and coastal defence, and industrial sectors across England and Wales.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.

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