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Managing Quantity Surveyor
📍 Based in Redhill ¦ 💼 Full-time ¦ Binnies UK, an RSK Group company
Binnies, an RSK Group company, is looking for an experienced Managing Quantity Surveyor to join our growing Delivery team.
Reporting directly to the D&B Service Line Commercial Lead, your role will allow hybrid working based out of Redhill and working across the Home Counties and South of England, working on a mix of Thames Water and Southern Water. You’ll play a key role in building future succession within the team while supporting our current commercial leadership — taking on GTb troubleshooting and workload to free up focus for strategic priorities, ensuring that commercial performance, contractual compliance, governance and risk management objectives are achieved.
The role combines strategic commercial leadership with operational delivery, providing direction to commercial teams while supporting project delivery teams to maximise profitability, minimise risk and maintain strong client relationships.
Commercial Management
- Lead robust cost estimates aligned to project scope.
- Manage and support commercial and procurement strategies, ensuring tender processes are correctly followed.
- Prepare and manage subcontracts to ensure they reflect agreed scope and terms.
- Develop and implement commercial strategies aligned with business objectives.
- Ensure consistent application of company commercial policies and governance.
Cost Control
- Deliver accurate, live forecasting aligned with project programmes.
- Monitor actual costs against baseline estimates, identifying and resolving variances.
- Produce detailed reports on cost performance and forecasts.
Contract Management
- Administer contracts effectively, managing contractual notices and obligations, while maintaining compliance and ensuring contractual entitlement is protected.
- Lead negotiations on:
- Variations
- Compensation Events
- Claims
- Final Accounts
- Dispute resolution
- Maintain thorough records for audits and cost assurance.
- Prepare and finalise project accounts in a timely manner.
Contract Change
Lead the commercial management of change by ensuring:
- Early identification
- Accurate pricing
- Timely submission
- Robust substantiation
- Successful negotiation
- Prompt agreement
Risk & Opportunity Management
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- Identify, quantify and manage:
- Commercial risks
- Contractual risks
- Cost risks
- Programme risks
- Supply chain risks
- Implement mitigation and opportunity plans.
- Monitor and report on identified efficiencies and variances.
Team Leadership
- Lead the commercial delivery of various projects or portfolio of projects.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a small commercial team.
- Support the professional growth and performance of your team members.
- Provide commercial advice to Project Directors and senior management.
- Drive commercial best practice across projects.
- Promote a proactive commercial culture focused on value creation.
About You
You’ll be a strong commercial professional with a proactive and solutions-focused mindset. You’ll bring:
- A degree-level qualification in Quantity Surveying or similar.
- Professional accreditation (RICS, CIOB, or CICES).
- Strong understanding of commercial governance.
- Proven experience leading commercial teams.
- Proven experience managing complex, multi-million-pound projects.
- Strong understanding of the NEC suite of contracts.
- Excellent negotiation, estimating, and stakeholder management skills.
- The confidence to challenge decisions and drive continuous improvement.
About Us
We develop intelligent solutions using our award-winning integrated planning and design approach to deliver functional infrastructure and lasting environmental and social legacies. This is backed by a culture that has stayed true since our foundation over 100 years ago. We create new possibilities for humanity through our innovative approach to delivery.
Together with our clients, we are always striving to find a smarter way to deliver projects. From providing low carbon, sustainable and resilient water solutions, flood alleviation and environment services, to connecting people with insights and data. Our business exists to improve the quality of life for our local communities today and for generations to come.
Binnies is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then.
At RSK, we operate as a group of businesses that work together seamlessly, aiming for growth through diversification. Our strategy helps us build a strong and resilient business, capable of weathering external challenges, while also providing greater value to our clients and more opportunities for our employees.
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Since the beginning, our philosophy has remained the same: employ, develop and reward talented individuals. People are crucial to our company, and we recognise that our success hinges on our colleagues' growth. We're committed to preserving RSK's people-first culture, promoting innovation, and fostering a supportive and caring environment for collaboration. At RSK, we want you to be part of our successes and help you reach your career aspirations. We take pride in offering employees fulfilling and challenging careers by promoting ongoing growth and empowering individuals to excel.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We firmly believe that embracing and celebrating the diversity in our workforce makes us a stronger and more innovative company.
If you're passionate about making a difference, join us as we work together to build a brighter, more equitable, and sustainable future for all. Do you have what it takes?
Benefits
- Private Health Insurance
- Income Protection
- High Street Vouchers
- Life Assurance
- Annual Leave Purchase
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Discounted Gym Membership
- Mental Health Support
- Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
Sectors
Environment
We create sustainable critical infrastructure across the whole asset life cycle to meet the net zero challenge. We integrate sustainability into everything we do, utilising digital innovation to create value. We de-risk projects through collaborative engagement and holistic thinking which builds inclusive wealth for our clients, stakeholders and communities.
Water
We are engaged in every aspect of the water industry, helping clients efficiently and effectively collect, store, move and treat water and wastewater; plan and manage watersheds; harness the energy embedded in the treatment and movement of water and enhance sustainability. We incorporate leading-edge digital transformation to create more resilient and reliable solutions using data analytics to provide powerful insights.
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