Senior Quantity Surveyor

Sccsinternational; Rickmansworth; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training & career development

Pension

Holiday purchase

Medical cover

Job summary

Galliford Try in Rickmansworth seeks a Senior Quantity Surveyor to oversee commercial performance across multiple projects, with travel to regional sites. The role requires negotiating subcontract terms, administering work packages and interim assessments, and controlling contract changes.

Applicants should have civil-engineering experience (rail, water or aviation) and be MCIOB or MRICS-desirable, with CSCS, Excel and Word skills.

Qualifications

• Experience with civil engineering contracts and final accounts.
• Proven ability to negotiate subcontract terms and prices.
• Strong client communication and negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Issue notices and deal with compensation events.
• Agree monthly client applications and conduct cost-value reconciliations.
• Manage risks, opportunities and cash/profit targets; support bidding teams.

Skills

Negotiation

Communication

Tools

Excel

Word

Commercial systems

Job description

Galliford Try is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor in Rickmansworth, with travel to regional sites. The post oversees commercial performance across several projects and includes responsibility for developing the commercial team. The surveyor will negotiate subcontract terms and prices, administer work packages and interim assessments, and control contract changes.

Duties include issuing notices, dealing with compensation events and agreeing monthly client applications. Financial reporting covers cost-value reconciliation, while the role also requires managing risks and opportunities and supporting targets for cash, profit and capital returns. The appointment includes client meetings and contractual support to bidding colleagues.

Applicants should understand construction processes and standard contracts, demonstrate negotiation and final-account experience, and communicate effectively with clients and colleagues.

The advert seeks civil-engineering experience, including:

• rail
• water or aviation

MCIOB or MRICS qualifications, or progress towards membership, are desirable.

Appropriate CSCS certification and skills in Excel, Word and commercial systems are also identified.

• training and career-development support,
• a pension,
• holiday-purchase arrangements,
• medical-cover options.

Applications for full-time, reduced-hours or flexible working will be discussed during recruitment.