AmcoGiffen
Senior Quantity Surveyor
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Location: Tamworth, West Midlands – North West & Central
Sector: Rail – Civils Asset Management (CP7)
Deliver Critical Rail Infrastructure with AmcoGiffen
AmcoGiffen is a leading engineering and infrastructure business delivering maintenance frameworks and complex projects across the UK. We support key clients including Network Rail, Local Authorities, and major infrastructure organisations, keeping vital transport and public assets safe, operational, and resilient.
Our work spans:
- Rail Infrastructure & Asset Management
- Bridges, Structures & Tunnels
- Flood Alleviation & Environmental Works
- Earthworks & Embankments
- Lineside Civils, Cabling & Telecoms
As part of our CP7 Civils Asset Management framework, you’ll play a key role in maintaining and enhancing critical rail infrastructure across the North West & Central region within a long-term, secure contract environment.
What We Offer
We invest in our people and provide a platform for long-term career success:
- Competitive salary (negotiable depending on experience)
- Company car or car allowance
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays (increasing with service)
- Company contributory pension scheme
- Life insurance
- Medicash Health Cash Plan & rewards platform
- Structured career development and progression pathways
- Access to leadership development programmes including Purposeful Leadership & Women in Leadership
- Ongoing training and development opportunities
- A strong focus on safety, wellbeing and inclusion
- Employee forums – ensuring your voice is heard
The Opportunity
We’re looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our commercial team the North West & Central framework team. This role, based in Tamworth, is responsible for supporting a high-volume programme of reactive, planned and preventative civils works across Network Rail infrastructure.
This is a key role within the commercial team, offering the opportunity to take ownership of commercial performance across multiple workstreams, influence strategic decision-making and support the development of junior commercial staff.
You’ll be operating in a dynamic framework environment covering a wide variety of civils works including structures, earthworks, drainage and rail-side infrastructure.
What You’ll Be Doing
As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will play a leading role in delivering commercial success across the framework:
Commercial Leadership & Financial Control
- Take full responsibility for the commercial management of assigned projects, ensuring profitability and contractual compliance
- Prepare and present applications for payment, CVRs, forecasts and final accounts, ensuring contractual entitlements are maximised
- Manage cost performance, cash flow and financial reporting across multiple schemes
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Framework & Project Delivery
- Support delivery teams to ensure projects are delivered safely, on time and within budget
- Manage variations, compensation events, early warnings and contractual notices
- Provide commercial input into programme planning and delivery strategy
Subcontractor & Supply Chain Management
- Lead the procurement, negotiation and management of subcontractors, through to final account settlement
- Drive value, performance and strong relationships across the supply chain
Stakeholder Management
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, operational teams and supply chain partners
- Act as a key commercial interface within the framework
Leadership & Development
- Mentor and support Quantity Surveyors, Assistant QS and Trainees within the team
- Contribute to a collaborative, high-performing commercial function
About You
We’re looking for a confident and commercially astute Senior Quantity Surveyor who thrives in a fast-paced infrastructure environment.
You will bring:
- Proven experience as a Quantity Surveyor or Senior Quantity Surveyor within civil engineering, rail or infrastructure
- Experience delivering works within asset management or maintenance frameworks
- Strong knowledge of NEC or Network Rail forms of contract
- A relevant qualification in Quantity Surveying or Commercial Management (HNC/HND/Degree)
- Strong leadership, negotiation and stakeholder management skills
- Experience managing multiple projects and mentoring junior team members
- A proactive, solutions-focused approach to commercial management
Why Join AmcoGiffen?
- Be part of a long-term CP7 civils framework offering job security and variety
- Work on critical infrastructure including bridges, embankments and rail systems
- Take on a lead commercial role with real impact and autonomy
- Develop your career with a business committed to progression and internal growth
- Join a collaborative team delivering essential infrastructure across the UK
Ready to Apply?
If you’re a Senior Quantity Surveyor looking for your next challenge in a dynamic civils framework environment, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply today and help shape the future of rail infrastructure with AmcoGiffen.
The Company
Why AmcoGiffen?
You will be joining a reputable and firmly established, engineering contractor operating nationally in rail, civils and engineering markets. AmcoGiffen are renowned in the market as a specialist civil, building, mechanical and electrical renewals and maintenance business with ongoing and successful projects and frameworks across the country, you will become part of our expert outfit.
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AmcoGiffen has a wealth of experience working on sensitive, live assets in highly regulated environments, we deliver exceptional peace of mind for our customers, creating and maintaining assets across a growing range of high-quality public and private sectors. These include rail, power generation, electricity distribution, flood defence, aviation, waterways and much more.
Diversity & Inclusion at AmcoGiffen
We value collective expertise, but also the spark that one person can bring. As one of us, you can be you, because your individuality is an asset to our business and the communities in which we work and represent.
We are working hard as part of the civil engineering and construction industry, to improve diversity & inclusion. Our Diversity and inclusion journey at AmcoGiffen, is constantly evolving and is designed to break down barriers and promote the principles of a diverse workforce through multiple channels. This includes delivering training, raising awareness, regular forums and sharing our engagement calendar of activities and events to encourage participation at all levels throughout our organisation.
Diversity & Inclusion is embodied throughout our SPIRIT core Business values and lies at the heart of our culture of Safety, Professionalism, Innovation, Respect, Integrity and Teamwork.
AmcoGiffen is an Equal Opportunities Employer, offering challenging, worthwhile careers to everyone and is pro-actively committed to improving our understanding year on year to foster a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees as well as for the customers and communities in which we serve and operate within. It doesn’t matter to us what your age, disability, employment status, gender, health, marital status, sexual preference, membership or non-membership of a trade union, nationality, race, religion or social class are, or indeed any other personal characteristics not directly related to the relevant job. Anyone who meets the requirements of the job is eligible for employment with AmcoGiffen.
Health & Wellbeing
Operating from a people first perspective we support safety and wellbeing in the workplace as a priority. We have large number of colleagues that are trained and qualified mental health first aiders to support and listen where appropriate. We enrol all of the AmcoGiffen family onto an employee assistance programme which provides 24 hour, 7 days a week counselling and advice services.
Is AmcoGiffen your next career challenge? If so, apply now!
For more information or to arrange a private and confidential discussion about AmcoGiffen career opportunities, please contact our Recruitment Team:
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