Balfour Beatty plc
Senior Quantity Surveyor
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About The Role
Join Balfour Beatty as a Senior Quantity Surveyor and play a leading role in the successful delivery of a major project within a live healthcare environment in Birmingham. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced commercial professional with either an MEP or construction background to contribute to a complex, high-profile scheme where collaboration, innovation, and excellence are at the heart of everything we do. You'll be joining a project that requires strategic commercial management, stakeholder engagement, and strong leadership within a highly operational setting, where maintaining business continuity is critical throughout construction activities.
We are particularly interested in candidates who have experience working in constrained or live environments such as hospitals, airports, schools, universities, data centres, manufacturing facilities, or other operational sites where works must be delivered safely and efficiently alongside day-to-day activities. Your ability to navigate the unique challenges of these environments, manage commercial risk, lead stakeholder engagement, oversee project change, and drive commercial performance will be essential to the success of the project.
As part of an experienced and supportive project team, you'll work closely with operational, design, and commercial colleagues to maximise value, lead commercial decision-making, manage subcontractor relationships, and ensure commercial objectives are achieved throughout the project lifecycle. You will play a key role in forecasting, cost control, contract administration, and the commercial governance of the project, helping to deliver successful outcomes for both our client and the business.
Whether your experience has been gained through MEP packages, building construction, or wider infrastructure projects, this is an excellent opportunity to further your career with one of the UK's leading construction and infrastructure businesses while helping to deliver a facility that will make a lasting difference to the communities it serves.
What you'll be doing
As a Senior Quantity Surveyor You Will
- Take responsibility for the commercial management of designated packages and elements of the project.
- Manage costs from pre-construction through to final account.
- Prepare and manage forecasts, budgets, and cost reports.
- Monitor and manage project expenditure, identifying risks and opportunities.
- Lead the procurement and commercial management of subcontractors and suppliers.
- Prepare, negotiate, and agree subcontract accounts, variations, and final accounts.
- Manage change effectively, ensuring that commercial impacts are identified and communicated.
- Work closely with the Project Manager, Design Manager, Planning, and wider delivery team.
- Build strong working relationships with the client, consultants, and supply chain.
- Provide commercial advice and support to the project team.
- Ensure contractual and commercial processes are followed and appropriately documented.
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Who we're looking for
You Will Have The Following
- Experience working as a Senior Quantity Surveyor on major construction projects.
- Previous experience within healthcare, hospitals, or other complex buildings would be highly desirable.
- Strong experience in subcontract procurement, cost control, forecasting, and final accounts.
- Good knowledge of construction contracts and commercial processes.
- Experience managing change, variations, risk, and opportunity.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
- The ability to build effective relationships with clients, consultants, and supply chain partners.
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…
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About Us
Operating across England and Wales, our buildings teams create places where people live, are cared for, work, learn, meet, and have fun, with a focus on the aviation, health, defence, education, and development sectors.
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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