Balfour Beatty plc
Senior Quantity Surveyor
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About The Role
Balfour Beatty is looking for an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Regional Buildings team in Birmingham, working on a major healthcare project.
This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially driven Senior QS to play a key role on a complex project within a live and highly regulated healthcare environment. You’ll work closely with the wider project team, client, and supply chain, taking responsibility for the commercial management of your packages and helping to deliver the project safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards.
With significant experience across the construction sector, Balfour Beatty offers the opportunity to work on challenging projects while developing your career within one of the UK’s leading infrastructure and construction businesses.
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.
Who we're looking for
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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.
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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
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.
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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 encourages 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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