Balfour Beatty plc
Senior Quantity Surveyor
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About The Role
Balfour Beatty Power T&D is recruiting for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to support the Lower Thames Crossing Project.
The Senior Quantity Surveyor is responsible for the commercial management of projects from pre-contract through to final account, ensuring robust cost control, value for money, commercial compliance, and effective risk management. The role provides leadership to the commercial team and supports the delivery of projects in line with contractual, financial, and governance requirements.
The successful candidate will seek to minimise project costs while maximising value, ensuring that the highest standards of safety, quality, and performance are achieved.
Typically, the Senior Quantity Surveyor will be a Chartered Member of RICS, ICES, or CIOB (or working towards chartership) and will have experience managing and mentoring less-experienced commercial team members, supporting their development towards professional qualification.
The role also requires a commitment to maintaining Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and contributing to the ongoing development of commercial capability within the project team.
What you'll be doing
- Lead the commercial management of assigned projects, ensuring adherence to contract conditions (typically NEC4 or equivalent).
- Manage project budgets, forecasting, cost reporting (CVRs), and change control processes.
- Prepare, assess, and agree compensation events, valuations, and final accounts.
- Ensure payment mechanisms, applications, and certifications are managed accurately and on time.
- Manage subcontract procurement strategies, including tendering, negotiation, and contract award.
- Identify, manage, and mitigate commercial and contractual risks.
- Support governance approvals and ensure compliance with internal commercial and financial controls.
- Provide clear commercial advice to project teams and senior stakeholders.
- Contribute to dispute avoidance and, where necessary, support resolution procedures.
- Provide line management, mentoring, and technical guidance to Quantity Surveyors and Assistant Quantity Surveyors.
- Collaborate with project managers, procurement, legal, and finance teams to support successful project delivery.
- Build effective relationships with clients, supply chain partners, and internal stakeholders.
- Produce accurate, timely commercial reports for internal review and senior leadership.
- Ensure robust record-keeping and audit trail in line with contractual and business requirements.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives within commercial processes and systems.
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Who we're looking for
An organised, innovative, and creative Senior Quantity Surveyor with enthusiasm for gaining knowledge and experience of working on diverse Projects and Portfolio’s.
- Strong experience managing commercial activities on major construction or infrastructure projects.
- Excellent working knowledge of NEC contracts (NEC3/NEC4 preferred).
- Proven ability to manage risk, change, and cost forecasting.
- Strong negotiation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience leading or mentoring commercial team members.
- High level of commercial awareness and attention to detail.
- Demonstration of working to deadlines, working efficiently and to a high standard.
- Excellent communication skills with all internal and external stakeholders.
- Demonstration of resilience and determination to succeed (achievement focus).
- Proactively manage opportunities, risks, and threats.
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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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.
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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