M Group Transport
Senior Quantity Surveyor
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Role Overview
Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where Will You Be Working?
At M Group Highways, we’re supporting the safe transportation and movement of people across the UK.
We don’t just build roads and bridges- we’re building a better future, creating lasting social value that gives back to the communities in which we work.
You’ll be joining our Highways maintenance team, as the UK’s number one highway maintenance contractor, our teams use the latest innovations to create effective solutions. We offer a range of services including planned and reactive maintenance and highway improvement schemes.
What Will You Be Doing?
- Lead commercial management across a portfolio of contracts, ensuring accurate valuations and strong cost control.
- Shape project-level commercial strategy, supporting tender development and supply chain engagement.
- Provide expert commercial advice, manage risk, and act as the escalation point for subcontract, client, and internal issues.
- Oversee valuations, change control, commercial governance, and contractual compliance.
- Manage subcontract procurement, onboarding, agreements, payments, variations, and final accounts.
- Maintain robust cost and financial controls, ensuring accurate reporting of costs, accruals, liabilities, and margins.
- Produce and present CVRs, forecasts, cashflows, WIP, and commercial performance reporting.
- Analyse contract KPIs and SLAs, identifying risks, opportunities, and value impacts.
- Ensure complete, compliant, audit-ready commercial records and registers.
- Support continuous improvement and development of commercial processes and team capability.
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What You’ll Bring
- Experience in Infrastructure or Construction in a Quantity Surveying role.
- Strong working knowledge of NEC3/NEC4 contract suites.
- Degree in Quantity Surveying or equivalent.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship building skills.
- Excellent Microsoft Excel and commercial data analysis capability.
- RICS or CICES accreditation (or working towards).
- Experience with FIDIC, JCT or bespoke contract forms.
- Experience mentoring or supervising junior team members.
- Wider exposure to varied project types and commercial environments.
- Strong communication skills for reporting and client engagement.
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
In addition, this role offers;
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- Private health care and health care cash plan
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!
- Holiday purchase scheme
- Personal Accident Cover
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About Us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs. Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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