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Senior Quantity Surveyor – NEC3/4 Specialist
Location: Warrington
Sector: Nuclear, Renewables, Water & Infrastructure
Our client is a Chartered Quantity Surveying practice with a clear ambition to become the UK's leading NEC4 consultancy. They work across major power, energy, infrastructure, engineering, and utilities projects and frameworks ranging from £250k to £1.5bn, and are investing heavily in developing NEC4 expertise across their teams.
As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll bring NEC contractual expertise to deliver strategic commercial advice, managing contract and commercial matters across diverse client projects. You'll act as a trusted advisor both on-site and in the office — this role requires regular site visits to engage with project delivery teams, contractors, and subcontractors, building relationships and driving collaborative project outcomes. Whether you're stepping up to Senior QS for the first time or bringing extensive NEC experience, this offers a genuine, structured career pathway from NEC Practitioner to Specialist level.
Your role and responsibilities
NEC Contracts
- Demonstrate detailed working knowledge of the NEC suite of contracts, including Main and Secondary Options and Contract Data
- Compile and advise on NEC contracts, ensuring documents are concise, compliant, and fit for purpose; supervise drafting of conditions of contract
- Advise on Scope and Site Information, ensuring alignment with contractual requirements
- Understand the roles, responsibilities, and obligations of all parties (Project Manager, Supervisor, Contractor, Subcontractor)
- Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, including health and safety, defects, bonds, insurances, HGCRA, delay damages, and dispute avoidance/resolution
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Programme Management
- Assess, manage, and implement compensation events and anticipated programme impacts
- Interrogate programme requirements, logic, and methodologies alongside the Project Manager and planner
Payment & Change Management
- Manage commercial aspects of NEC contracts, including Defined Cost, Disallowed Cost, Fee, and the Schedule of Cost Components
- Lead production of pricing documents and assess compensation events with project teams
- Advise clients on contractual positions and manage the early warning process
Leadership
- Act as a visible, trusted leader within project teams and with stakeholders
- Facilitate workshops and presentations on NEC matters and commercial best practice
- Champion a culture of joint collaboration and collective responsibility, supporting problem-solving and innovation across the supply chain
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Requirements
- Degree (or equivalent) in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, or Engineering (HNC/HND considered)
- NEC Practitioner-level competence, with a strong understanding of NEC4 structure, principles, and commercial application
- Membership (or working towards) RICS, CICES, CIOB, or MAPM preferred
- Practical expertise in NEC payment mechanisms, compensation events, programme management, and risk mitigation
- Strong interpersonal, leadership, and communication skills
- Full UK driving licence and access to a car for site visits and business travel
Rewards & benefits
- Excellent salary package
- Significant £ flexible allowance, company health cash plan, enhanced family leave, private medical insurance, life assurance
- Flexible benefits including holiday buy/sell, EV scheme, and matched pension contributions up to 8%
- Company bonus scheme up to 10% of salary
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Hybrid working — exact pattern agreed based on client/project needs
- Structured progression from Practitioner to Specialist level, including sponsored NEC4 accreditation and tailored leadership development
Interested? Please contact me for an informal chat if interested, on 07890 609 653, or apply for the role via the link.
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