Aldwych Consulting Ltd
Quantity Surveyor
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Quantity Surveyor - Major Infrastructure Projects
Location: Swindon
Are you a Quantity Surveyor looking to work on some of the UK's most high-profile infrastructure projects? We're recruiting on behalf of a leading consultancy for an exciting opportunity to join a collaborative commercial team supporting major programmes across the utilities, defence, aviation, energy, highways, and rail sectors.
This is a client-facing role, with the opportunity to work directly within client teams through long-term secondments, gaining invaluable project experience while developing your career within a supportive and forward-thinking environment.
The Role
As a Quantity Surveyor, you'll play a key role in the commercial delivery of complex infrastructure projects, working closely with project managers, contractors, and client stakeholders to ensure successful project outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with clients, project teams, and contractors.
- Monitor and control project costs, ensuring projects are delivered within budget.
- Validate contractor and supplier costs, applications, and payments.
- Produce regular commercial and financial reports, presenting cost performance and risk updates.
- Support procurement activities, including contractor evaluation and appointment.
- Administer construction contracts, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations.
- Manage contract variations, assessing validity, reviewing quotations, and agreeing changes.
- Identify and mitigate commercial risks while supporting value engineering initiatives.
- Maintain accurate commercial records alongside project management teams.
- Mentor and support junior colleagues, contributing to the development of the wider commercial team.
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About You
We're looking for candidates who can demonstrate:
- Membership of, or progress towards, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) or an equivalent professional body.
- A degree (or equivalent) in Quantity Surveying or a related discipline.
- Experience working on civil infrastructure projects.
- Knowledge of standard UK construction contracts, including NEC, ICC, FIDIC, or JCT.
- Strong commercial, analytical, and stakeholder management skills.
- Previous experience supporting or mentoring junior team members.
What's on Offer
- Opportunity to work on nationally significant infrastructure programmes.
- Flexible hybrid working with a mix of home, office, and client-site locations.
- Long-term career development and structured professional support.
- Exposure to a diverse range of sectors and complex projects.
- A collaborative culture with genuine opportunities for progression and professional growth.
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If you're looking to take the next step in your Quantity Surveying career and want to be involved in delivering some of the UK's most challenging infrastructure projects, we'd love to hear from you.
Aldwych Consulting values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
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