Balfour Beatty plc
Senior Quantity Surveyor
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About The Role
At Balfour Beatty Power T&D, we're growing our Commercial team in Scotland and are looking for multiple Senior Quantity Surveyors to join us on the BBNP (Beauly, Blackhillock, New Deer and Peterhead) 400kV Overhead Line Project.
Whether you're already operating as a Senior Quantity Surveyor or looking to take the next step in your commercial career, we'd love to hear from you.
You can be based from Glasgow, Inverness or Elgin, with flexible travel arrangements to site and hybrid working options available.
Full-time and part-time applications are welcome. We're building our team and are open to different working patterns for the right people.
We're not looking for candidates who have spent their entire career in the power sector. In fact, Power Transmission & Distribution experience and NEC contract experience are not essential. We welcome applications from a wide range of sectors including construction, infrastructure, rail, highways, defence, utilities, energy and manufacturing.
What you'll be doing
As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll take responsibility for managing all costs and income within your area of responsibility, ensuring commercial performance is maximised whilst delivering exceptional outcomes for our customers.
- Managing all commercial aspects of your projects and workstreams.
- Preparing commercial reports, forecasts and financial reconciliations.
- Reviewing and negotiating contracts, rates, prices, variations and compensation events.
- Monitoring subcontract performance and commercial compliance.
- Supporting the preparation of claims and commercial submissions.
- Analysing tender information and developing robust commercial strategies.
- Supporting customer and stakeholder management across your area of responsibility.
Procurement & Supply Chain
- Developing procurement strategies and programmes.
- Managing subcontract enquiries and tender evaluations.
- Supporting supply chain performance and commercial outcomes.
- Undertaking constructability and programme reviews to maximise value.
Leadership & Development
- Supporting the recruitment, development and retention of team members.
- Mentoring Assistant, Graduate and Trainee Quantity Surveyors.
- Sharing knowledge and helping others progress towards professional qualifications.
- Promoting a collaborative, high-performing team culture.
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Who we're looking for
Essential
- BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying, or equivalent experience.
- MRICS, MCIOB, MCInstCES or working towards professional membership.
- CSCS Professionally Qualified Person Card.
- Experience managing commercial activities on construction or infrastructure projects.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
What Will Make You Stand Out
- Leadership experience and a passion for developing others.
- A proactive and solutions-focused approach.
- Strong commercial awareness and negotiation skills.
- The ability to build positive working relationships with customers, colleagues and supply chain partners.
- A commitment to continuous professional development.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About Us
Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.
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From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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