UK Power Networks
Quantity Surveyor
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Join UK Power Networks as a Quantity Surveyor in London with a competitive salary of £68,144.00 plus 3% bonus and London Weighting and use your commercial expertise to help deliver the capital projects that keep London connected.
Reporting to a Senior Quantity Surveyor or Commercial Lead, you will manage high-value construction contracts across the London Power Networks portfolio within a collaborative Capital Programme team. You will provide professional quantity surveying support across long-term Capital Programme and Procurement Delivery contracts, acting as commercial lead or supporting larger projects.
Working with programme, project, design, planning, consents and administrative colleagues, you will manage contract set-up, pricing, delivery, scope change, compliance and disputes while ensuring projects meet contractual and reporting requirements.
Your duties will include:
- Reviewing contractor ADP and tender submissions, tender documentation, activity schedules and presentations
- Attending interviews
- Completing tender analysis and fixed-rate comparisons
- Managing your commercial workload
- Assessing applications, Early Warning Notices and Compensation Events
- Raising payment recommendations and certificates
- Preparing correspondence and updating project risk registers to ensure only legitimate costs are certified
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Using Unifier and linked cost-reporting systems, you will:
- Agree or reject CENs
- Agree CEQs and maintain Work Order Tracker dashboards
- Manage risks and opportunities
- Maintain potential-cost schedules
- Advise colleagues on NEC3 and bespoke contracts
- Support purchase-order increases and governance documents
- Contribute to annual rate reviews
- Review subcontract compliance and ensure change-control procedures are followed
You will resolve contractual issues with commercial and project colleagues, prepare dispute documentation, recommend proportionate resolution strategies and work with legal advisers where required. You will also follow company procedures, report non-conformance, produce high-quality reports, challenge decisions appropriately, maintain effective partner relationships and support junior colleagues.
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You will be degree-qualified in quantity surveying or a relevant business discipline, with experience managing complex, high-value and varied contracts and practical knowledge of NEC conditions.
Apply by 2 August 2026 and use your commercial judgement to help deliver safe, compliant and successful construction projects across London.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Where applicable, this role is subject to safer recruitment processes and robust pre-employment checks
If you have any queries in connection to this vacancy or your application, please contact us at careers@ukpowernetworks.co.uk quoting the vacancy reference number and a member of the team will get in touch with you as soon as possible.
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