Senior Quantity Surveyor (Water)

Arcadis; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis in the UK is seeking an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor to join the Cost & Commercial Management team supporting our resilience water sector projects in Reading and London. You will lead post-contract administration, manage cost monitoring, and ensure governance and value engineering.

The role requires NEC contract experience, client liaison, mentoring junior staff, and the ability to deliver projects from inception to completion within £5m–£40m scopes.

Qualifications

• Strong self-management and ability to prioritise under pressure.
• Solid knowledge of construction processes and cost/CM in consultancy.
• Experience with NEC contracts.
• Ability to manage junior staff on projects (£5m–£40m).
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Knowledge of procurement routes, value management and value engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team and manage post-contract administration of NEC contracts.
• Establish professional relationships with clients and project teams.
• Provide accurate cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting.
• Manage cost variance and cash flow across gateways.
• Collaborate with client/commercial teams to deliver KPIs and value engineering.
• Provide risk and value management meetings as required.
• Manage client relationships and pursue new business opportunities.
• Analyse data to identify trends and inform decisions.
• Lead commissions and junior staff as needed.
• Ensure final accounts are audited, negotiated and agreed.

Skills

Self-management

Cost & Commercial management

NEC contracts

Stakeholder management

Mentoring juniors

Leadership

Value engineering

Data analysis

Education

Degree in a relevant subject

MRICS or chartership in progress

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

We are currently seeking a number of personable, enthusiastic, and energetic Senior Quantity Surveyors to join our Cost & Commercial Management team to support our continuing growth within our resilience business for a Global Client in the Water Sector.

You will be a Senior Cost Consultant within our Cost & Commercial Management team, working on a variety of water/utilities projects and programmes in the Reading and London area.

You’ll help deliver some of the biggest, most iconic projects imaginable with some of the best talent around. With your energy, agility and keen eye for detail, you’ll deliver transformational outcomes for multiple clients to deliver a more sustainable tomorrow.

The role sits within our Resilience GBA, where we work to protect our natural environment and water resources while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects of climate change, rapid urbanisation, and loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we are seeing large-scale, unforeseen events, such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities

• Working as part of and leading a team alongside the Commission Lead, with the ability to take ownership of projects and manage and administer the post-contract administration of NEC contracts, including assessment of contractual change and payments, ensuring that projects remain within governance and adopt best practices.
• Establishing friendly, professional and appropriate relationships with clients, colleagues and other parties involved in the projects and programmes we support.
• Work within established financial systems to provide accurate project cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting to completion in line with budget.
• Proactively monitor and manage cost variance and contract cash flow to ensure that applications are made correctly and on time through all gateways to minimise cost and scope changes throughout the project life cycle.
• Collaborating with client and commercial teams to manage the delivery of project deliverables, KPIs, and objectives, including programme performance, cost control, and value engineering.
• Provide advice on and manage Risk and value management/meetings as required for the projects.
• Manage relationships and collaborate with clients and external stakeholders to ensure client satisfaction and create new business opportunities
• Analyse and review a range of data and documents to collate key themes and trends, using this analysis in conjunction with own knowledge to provide advice and make recommendations to support cost and commercial management decision-making.
• Leading people and commissions as needed
• Ensuring that final accounts are audited, negotiated and agreed

Other requirements

Hybrid working with requirements for client travel between London & Reading areas

Qualifications & Experience

• Demonstrating self-management and prioritisation skills with the ability to work under pressure.
• Good knowledge of specialised fields, including construction processes and cost and commercial management in a consultancy setting.
• NEC Contract experience.
• Possess the skills to actively support the internal team and manage more junior staff on projects typically ranging between £5m and £40m.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to influence stakeholders and third parties.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering
• Experience in managing, coaching and mentoring more junior colleagues and emerging leadership skills.
• Capable of taking a project through from inception to completion.
• Ideally, degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant subject.
• Ideally appropriate professional body membership, MRICS or working towards chartership.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.