Lead Quantity Surveyor – Major Projects (NY)

National Grid; City of Syracuse (NY); On-site; USD 142,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

National Grid in New York seeks a Quantity Surveyor Manager to lead a team delivering cost value for Major Projects, overseeing pricing, contract changes, and cost databases. Based in Albany, Syracuse, or Buffalo, you will ensure robust cost control, provide commercial guidance, and report on safety, schedule, and financial performance to support the capital plan.

This senior role requires extensive experience in utilities/construction, strong SAP/PowerBI skills, and a disciplined governance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education or experience in Estimating, Planning, Construction Management, Project Management, Engineering, or similar technical fields.
• At least 8 years of experience in utilities or construction industries.
• Microsoft Office and strong systems usage experience (SAP, PowerBI).

Responsibilities

• Lead and embed positive safety culture and process safety within team to improve collective safety performance ensuring adherence to company policy, aims and objectives.
• Maintain accountability for first level assurance across all team activities and responsibilities.
• Develop and share best practice in SHESQ and Project Delivery.
• Lead team to manage and deliver program of projects safely to time, cost and specification within governance requirements including project initiation documents, project execution plans and management of plans, schedule, National Grid resources, budgets, quality and risks.
• Challenge project teams to ensure project scope, designs and delivery solutions are innovative, efficient, fit for purpose and prevent creep.
• Provide accurate and timely monthly project status reports covering SHE performance, milestone progress, risk management, current and forecast financial performance to ensure robust tracking and reporting against the long-term capital plan.
• Ensure that Project Engineers are robustly positioned commercially on scheme delivery, and coordinate and prioritize commercial / contractual support systems in place.
• For Major Infrastructure Schemes, agree and implement a community consultation plan for the project with the SPM and local authorities. Ensure a robust response management system is in place for the recording of the receipt and response to all statutory and public feedback.

Skills

Cost estimation

Team leadership

Pricing strategy

Contract management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

SAP

PowerBI

Job description

National Grid in New York seeks a Quantity Surveyor Manager to lead a team delivering cost value for Major Projects, overseeing pricing, contract changes, and cost databases. Based in Albany, Syracuse, or Buffalo, you will ensure robust cost control, provide commercial guidance, and report on safety, schedule, and financial performance to support the capital plan.

This senior role requires extensive experience in utilities/construction, strong SAP/PowerBI skills, and a disciplined governance