Senior Quantity Surveyor

TipTopJob; Slough; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad CPE is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join a Tier 1 contractor, with involvement from cost-planning and programme reviews through to on-site package management. You’ll work with the commercial team on large schemes along the M4 corridor and collaborate with pre-construction and delivery teams to ensure commercial success.

The role emphasizes managing payments, valuations, variations, and contract administration across education, health, MOD and blue-light projects, with

Qualifications

• Experience reviewing programmes and cost plans with supply chain.
• Ability to manage payments, valuations, variations, and CVR.
• Site-based responsibility on larger schemes with coordination of commercial team.

Responsibilities

• Review and check programmes and cost plans.
• Work with supply chain to develop detailed prices.
• Take responsibility for site meetings and on-site package management.
• Oversee payments, valuations, variations, and contract administration.

Skills

Cost planning

Contract administration

CVR

Site management

Payments & valuations

Job description

We are working with the regional office of a Tier 1 contractor : one of the best in the business : who need a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join their team after a number of new contract awards and opportunities to bid.

They work on schemes from GBP20 to GBP120 million on both JCT and NEC forms of contract, a majority of which are framework awards in the education, MOD, MOJ, health, pharma, student and care marketplaces.

They have recently been awarded several blue light schemes which are moving to site late 2026 and also have a number of high profile opportunities to bid for around the M4 corridor.

Your role is to work initially at 2nd stages to review and check programmes and cost plans and then work with supply chain to work up detailed prices for the scope of agreed works and then convert into subcontract orders. You will on the larger schemes have a commercial team to manage, supervise and develop including experienced Project level people as well as assistant and trainee level people and with the team you will then be responsible for taking onto site, pre start meetings and then managing and supervising the package on site. Oversight of payments, valuations, variation accounts, administering contracts correctly, forecasting and CVR preparation and presentation to Regional Commercial Directors form part of the duties.

They have experienced commercial teams to integrate into and the commercial function works seamlessly with both precon and the delivery teams to build some really interesting schemes.

Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.