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Principal Project Quantity Surveyor
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Your Impact
Supporting the continued growth of our Glasgow team, this newly created opportunity offers the chance to play a key role in shaping and delivering some of the UK's most complex and high-profile Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) programmes.
Working alongside industry-leading clients and multidisciplinary project teams, you will contribute to the successful delivery of major programmes across our core sectors, including:
- Large-scale Transportation programmes, including Rail, Metro, Airport, and Highways
- Nationally significant Defence infrastructure projects
- Clean Energy and Renewable Power development
- Strategic Water infrastructure programmes
- Science and Technology estates
- Opportunity to support wider UK, Ireland, and International Flagship programmes
As an experienced Quantity Surveyor, you will bring demonstrable industry expertise, strong commercial acumen, and established stakeholder management capabilities. Combining your sound commercial judgement with excellent communication skills, you will build trusted, collaborative relationships with clients, contractors, and project teams, helping to drive successful project outcomes from inception through to completion.
Your remit will include:
- Provide commercial and contractual support throughout the full project lifecycle.
- Passion for delivering value through cost engineering and commercial insight.
- Deliver cost planning, estimating, and benchmarking activities.
- Lead procurement activities, tender governance, and commercial assessment.
- Drive robust cost management, value optimization, and commercial governance processes.
- Identify, assess, and manage project risks and opportunities.
- Manage early warning procedures, change control processes, and corrective action plans.
- Prepare and present accurate financial reporting, forecasting, and performance analysis.
- Foster a collaborative, partnership-based culture with clients, project stakeholders, and wider supply chain.
- Support, mentor, and develop colleagues and peers, contributing to the growth and capability of the wider team.
Here's What You'll Need
As a dynamic, diverse consultancy team with a clear, supported career path, where your professional growth truly matters, we would be delighted to hear from and speak to commercially focused Quantity Surveyors with experience supporting the successful delivery of complex infrastructure projects who have a real blend of the following skills, experience, and attributes:
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- MRICS Chartered status or actively working towards it.
- Demonstrable experience of managing end-to-end procurement aligned to NEC principles.
- Robust understanding of commercial management, procurement, and contract administration.
- Comfortable engaging and collaborating with stakeholders at all levels.
- Sound cost, risk, change, and project performance management experience.
- A passion for continuous learning and supporting the development of others.
- Proficient with CostX or equivalent measurement/estimating tools.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing team, work on nationally significant programmes, and play an important role in delivering infrastructure that creates lasting social, economic, and environmental impact.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary aligned to your experience and professional accreditations.
- Flexible working arrangements — hybrid, part-time, flexible hours, and locations.
- Income protection for long-term security.
- Up to 10% employer pension contributions.
- Comprehensive health cover including single medical cover & Digital GP (with options to add dependants).
- Family planning support including fertility healthcare.
- Employee Networks to support colleagues from all backgrounds.
- Enhanced parental leave and free access to support programmes.
- Life assurance at 4x salary.
- Wellbeing Hub with free access to Calm, Daily Burn, and more.
- Professional Development — we pay your professional membership fees and offer extensive CPD opportunities.
- Community Engagement — matched charity funding, paid volunteering days, and corporate giving schemes.
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With safety and flexibility always top of mind, we’ve gone beyond traditional ways of working so you have the support, means, and space to maximize your potential. You’ll uncover flexible working arrangements, benefits, and opportunities, from well-being benefits to our global giving and volunteering program, to exploring new and inventive ways to help our clients make the world a better place. No matter what drives you, you’ll discover how you can cultivate, nurture, and achieve your goals – all at a single global company. Find out more about life at Jacobs.
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