Balfour Beatty plc
Senior Quantity Surveyor
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About The Role
Balfour Beatty's Regional Civils business is seeking an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our team, based from our Birmingham office and supporting a diverse portfolio of civil engineering projects across the East and West Midlands. Reporting directly to a Managing Quantity Surveyor, you will play a key role in driving the commercial success of multiple projects, providing expert commercial leadership and ensuring best practice is embedded across your portfolio.
This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially astute professional looking to make a significant impact within a growing region, working on a range of challenging infrastructure and civil engineering schemes. You'll be empowered to take ownership of project performance, build strong relationships with operational teams and clients, and contribute to the continued growth and success of Balfour Beatty's Regional Civils division.
What you'll be doing
- Taking commercial responsibility for a portfolio of civil engineering projects across the East and West Midlands, ensuring strong financial performance and successful project delivery.
- Leading, mentoring and developing Quantity Surveyors and junior team members, while providing commercial guidance to project teams and senior stakeholders.
- Supporting the development and implementation of commercial strategies that maximise project profitability and deliver target margins.
- Producing accurate cost forecasts, cost-to-complete assessments and monthly cost/value reports, ensuring robust financial control throughout the project lifecycle.
- Managing contract administration and change control processes, including valuation, negotiation and agreement of variations through CEMAR.
- Monitoring project budgets, cash flow and applications for payment, ensuring timely valuations and effective working capital management.
- Leading the subcontract procurement process, from tendering and contract award through to account management and final settlement.
- Maintaining accurate commercial records and supporting the preparation and management of claims, variations and insurance notifications where required.
- Collaborating closely with Project Managers, customers, subcontractors and internal teams to ensure commercial objectives are achieved and risks are effectively managed.
- Ensuring full compliance with Balfour Beatty's commercial procedures, Business Management System (BMS), Group Minimum Commercial Expectations and Health, Safety & Environment standards.
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Who we're looking for
- Significant experience as a Senior Quantity Surveyor within the civil engineering sector, with a proven track record of leading the commercial delivery of projects.
- Strong knowledge of construction and contract law, with experience administering and managing contracts, ideally including NEC/ECC forms of contract.
- Demonstrable expertise in commercial management, cost control, forecasting, procurement and subcontract management across complex infrastructure projects.
- Excellent understanding of tendering processes, subcontracting principles and the ability to draft, negotiate and administer subcontract agreements.
- Commercially astute with strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills, able to build effective relationships with clients, supply chain partners and internal teams.
- Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively, with the confidence to lead commercial activities and support project delivery teams.
- Strong analytical, numerical and problem-solving skills, with experience quantifying and valuing construction works using recognised methods of measurement.
- Good understanding of insurance requirements, bonds, warranties, construction techniques, plant, equipment and materials used on civil engineering projects.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and commercial reporting systems, with excellent communication, administration and report-writing skills.
- Results-driven, organised and able to perform effectively in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple projects and competing deadlines.
- Holds a valid CSCS Card; a degree in Quantity Surveying and professional membership (RICS, ICES or CIOB) would be advantageous.
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
With a strong track record of delivery, our civils teams connect communities through infrastructure projects in the highways, public realm, rail, flood and coastal defence, and industrial sectors across England and Wales.
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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