Balfour Beatty plc
Senior Quantity Surveyor
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About The Role
Senior Quantity Surveyor – Balfour Beatty – Connect Plus Services (CPS)
Location: Dartford, Leatherhead or South Mimms
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Connect Plus Services (CPS) team, supporting the M25 London Orbital Motorway project.
CPS is a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins and Egis, responsible for operating and maintaining the M25—Europe’s busiest motorway. Delivering over £100m of annual investment alongside planned and reactive maintenance, this is a complex and high-profile network requiring strong commercial leadership and effective delivery.
If you are looking to progress your career in highways and infrastructure, this role offers the opportunity to work within one of the UK’s most challenging and dynamic environments.
What you'll be doing
As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will play a key role in leading the commercial management of civil engineering works, ensuring projects are delivered efficiently, within budget, and in line with contractual requirements.
You will be responsible for managing cost, value and risk, while supporting and developing a small team of commercial professionals. You will work closely with project teams, clients and stakeholders to drive commercial performance and maximise value.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare activity and resource schedules and analyse tender documentation
- Monitor and audit costs to ensure compliance with subcontract terms
- Critically assess, estimate and negotiate with subcontractors and third parties
- Review complex programmes (including Time-Location) and support delay and disruption analysis
- Monitor and report on commercial performance across main and subcontract accounts
- Provide commercial insight and reporting to senior project stakeholders
- Manage commercial relationships with clients and key stakeholders
- Administer contracts, including issuing notices, certificates and managing change
- Lead on cost value reconciliation (CVR) and earned value reporting
- Assess variations and changes in accordance with contract conditions
- Prepare, submit and negotiate claims where required
- Produce accurate cost and value forecasts for projects
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Who we're looking for
About You
We are looking for a commercially astute professional who can lead, influence and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
Essential
- Degree (BSc or MSc) in Quantity Surveying or a related discipline (or equivalent experience)
- Experience within civils, highways or infrastructure environments
- Strong NEC contract knowledge and commercial management experience
- Proven ability to lead commercial delivery and manage project performance
- Experience managing or mentoring junior commercial team members
- Strong stakeholder engagement and client-facing experience
Desirable
- Membership of RICS, ICES or a similar professional body (or working towards)
Why join us?
This is an excellent opportunity to take a leading commercial role on a nationally significant infrastructure project, within a collaborative and high-performing team.
Apply now and join the CPS team working on the M25 and make a real impact.
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.
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
Connect Plus Services (CPS) brings together the collective strength of our parent companies - Balfour Beatty, Atkins and Egis Road Operation UK. With around 600 people, based at eight locations across the M25 network, we work on behalf of Connect Plus and National Highways to manage the operation of the M25 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, from routine maintenance to managing the whole-life requirement of thousands of assets across the network.
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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 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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