Managing Quantity Surveyor

OCU Group; Swindon; On-site; GBP 55,000 - GBP 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm is seeking a Managing Quantity Surveyor to manage a busy Commercial Team in Swindon. The role involves ensuring contract compliance, managing a team, and negotiating contracts with clients. Applicants should possess a degree-level education, experience in a similar role, and excellent communication skills. The firm emphasizes inclusion and values integrity and collaboration. If you're driven by values and looking to shape the future, apply now.

Qualifications

• Experience within a similar role is essential.
• Confident IT skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure commercial interests are maintained in all activities.
• Manage quantity surveying team tasks effectively.
• Negotiate with clients concerning contract provisions.
• Ensure contract compliance across OCU region.
• Support the region with new work tenders.

Skills

Full UK Drivers Licence

Proficient in MS Office, particularly MS Excel

Excellent Communication skills

Education

Degree level education or equivalent experience

Tools

CEMAR

Job description

Role Overview

2026 is continuing to provide sustainable growth within OCU Group. Due to this continued growth, an opportunity has arisen for a Managing Quantity Surveyor to join our busy Commercial Team . This role would suit an experienced Managing Quantity Surveyor looking to develop their career in this fast-paced industry.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensuring the commercial interests of OCU are always maintained and throughout all activities undertaken.
• Overall responsibility for managing the quantity surveying team in daily/ weekly/ monthly tasks.
• Proficient in reviewing forms of contract, notably NEC3/ NEC4 and negotiating with clients concerning contract provisions.
• Ensuring contract compliance across the entire OCU region and always be seeking to mitigate the exposure of OCU to any commercial risk from poor contract administration.
• Responsible for all business reporting requirements, to support key business targets.
• Assisting the region and central functions with tendering new works.
• Ensuring the process for raising variations/ compensation claims to clients are produced and submitted in a timely manner covering all additional scope works.
• Ensuring the clients commercial management tools are updated and monitored by all key personnel for all commercial activities.
• Managing submission of all payment assessments through to prompt cash collection.
• Ensuring a robust subcontractor management process is employed supported by robust governance procedures.
• Promote cost saving and increased productivity through initiatives and value engineering.
• Ensuring sound commercial practice is employed by commercial, and operational, teams on all works and promote business culture.
• Ensuring a fluid line of communication with key client representatives.
• Manage effective dispute resolution with clients and subcontractors as required.
• Supporting Regional Director with monthly reporting.

Skills and Experience

• Holder of a Full UK Drivers Licence.
• Educated to Degree level, or equivalent experience.
• Experience within a similar role.
• Confident IT skills, proficient in the use of MS Office in particular MS Excel.
• Experience of CEMAR preferable, but not essential.
• Excellent Communication skills.

Driven by values, powered by inclusion.

At OCU, our values guide everything we do: integrity, collaboration, respect, innovation and one company united. They shape how we work with our clients, communities, and each other. We believe that inclusion is more than a principle — it’s the foundation of our success. By embracing equity and ensuring that every individual has the opportunity to thrive, we create a workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, and everyone feels they belong.

Together, we build stronger teams, deliver better outcomes, and grow in ways that reflect the communities we serve. If you want to be part of a culture where values matter and inclusion is at the heart of everything we do apply now and help us shape the future together.

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