Senior Quantity Surveyor - Eastbourne

Balfour Beatty; Eastbourne; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure services company is looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor in Eastbourne. You will manage commercial aspects of local authority partnerships, ensuring compliance and continuous improvement. Ideal candidates have experience in highways, strong commercial skills, and ideally hold a professional qualification. This role offers a competitive salary and flexible working options.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Company car/car allowance

Comprehensive benefits package

25 days paid annual leave

Family friendly policies

Pension and share incentive plan

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a highways or public realm environment.
• Strong working knowledge of NEC3/NEC4 forms of contract.
• Ability to deliver results in a collaborative team setting.

Responsibilities

• Support the Commercial and Finance Manager in delivering commercial strategy.
• Manage the commercial lifecycle of assigned contracts.
• Lead subcontract management including procurement and final settlements.

Skills

Quantity Surveyor experience

Stakeholder management

Commercial acumen

Communication skills

IT skills (Excel, Word)

Education

Chartered MRICS/MCInstCES qualification

Job description

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About the role

Job Title: Senior Quantity Surveyor

Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex

Project Type: Living Places - Highways and Public Realm Improvement

Company: Balfour Beatty Group

About Us

Balfour Beatty Living Places provides highways maintenance, street lighting, and public realm services across the UK - creating safe, sustainable environments where communities thrive.

We now have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our East Sussex contract, based from our Eastbourne office. You'll play a key role in managing the commercial aspects of our local authority partnership, ensuring best value, compliance, and continuous improvement across a varied and dynamic portfolio of work.

What you'll be doing

• Support the Commercial and Finance Manager in delivering commercial strategy and performance.
• Manage the commercial lifecycle of assigned contracts, from cost forecasting and valuations to final accounts.
• Lead subcontract management, including procurement, administration, variations, and final settlements.
• Coach and support operational teams on commercial best practice and change management.
• Work closely with finance colleagues on monthly WIP valuations, accruals, and reporting.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and customer focus.
• Promote Balfour Beatty's values of Integrity, Teamwork, Excellence and Respect in every interaction.

Who we're looking for

• Proven experience as a Quantity Surveyor in a highways or public realm environment.
• Strong working knowledge of NEC3/NEC4 forms of contract.
• Commercial acumen and the ability to deliver results in a collaborative team setting.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• Strong IT skills (Excel, Word, commercial systems).
• Ideally chartered (MRICS/MCInstCES) or working towards professional qualification.

Why join us?

• Be part of a business improving local communities through sustainable infrastructure.
• Access to industry-leading learning, development, and chartership support.
• Competitive salary, company car/car allowance, and comprehensive benefits package.
• Hybrid and flexible working to support work-life balance.

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.

Professional and personal development

The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.

We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.

We're proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it's sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10* approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.

*70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.

For further information about Balfour Beatty Living Places please go to www.balfourbeatty.com/careers - You can also check out further job opportunities in the careers section

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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.

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

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also 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]