Senior Quantity Surveyor

Mott MacDonald; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - GBP 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A multi-disciplinary engineering firm in the UK seeks a Senior Quantity Surveyor to manage NEC3 contracts and ensure effective cost management. You will play a key role in large-scale infrastructure projects, focusing on cost control, valuation, and project governance. Ideal candidates will have experience in complex projects, NEC ECC accreditation, and a strong understanding of commercial practices. The company's hybrid policy supports well-being and flexible work arrangements.

Benefits

Employee ownership model

Enhanced family and parenting leave

Private medical insurance

Flexible holiday benefits

Life assurance up to 4x salary

Qualifications

• Hold or be working towards MRICS membership.
• Experience working on technically complex infrastructure projects.
• Demonstrable experience administering contracts using CEMAR.

Responsibilities

• Manage and administer NEC3 contracts efficiently.
• Control and implement contract variations.
• Maintain accurate cost control and forecasting.

Skills

NEC ECC accreditation

Experience with NEC3 ECC contracts

Cost control and valuation

Competent in Microsoft Office

Managing contract cash flow

Education

Membership of MRICS or equivalent

Tools

CEMAR

Thinkproject Contracts

Job description

Overview of the role

Are you passionate about navigating the complexities of large-scale infrastructure projects and ensuring their success? Join our team at Mott MacDonald, where we are seeking an established Senior Quantity Surveyor to deliver commercial and cost management within a multidisciplinary team. In this dynamic role, you will play a pivotal part in shaping the landscape of some of the most exciting projects in the UK.

The Senior Quantity Surveyor will support the successful delivery of client projects. The role focuses on effective cost management, valuation, NEC3 contract administration, and commercial leadership to ensure efficient, transparent delivery aligned with client objectives. The Senior Quantity Surveyor will drive value, manage risk, build effective stakeholder relationships, and champion commercial best practice throughout the construction lifecycle.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Manage and administer NEC3 contracts in accordance with project and governance requirements
• Control and implement contract variations efficiently, ensuring timely and compliant agreement
• Maintain accurate cost control, monitoring, and forecasting
• Valuation of construction works as they progress on site
• Assist the Project Manager in commercial and cost matters in a proactive and diligent manner
• Continuously improve the quality and reliability of cost forecasts and budgets
• Work collaboratively with client and contractor teams to achieve project objectives, KPIs, and value outcomes
• Demonstrate value for money of quotations, working with the contractor to drive best practice and value engineering

Candidate Specification

• NEC ECC accreditation and practical experience administering NEC3 ECC contracts
• Hold, or be working towards, membership of an appropriate professional body or equivalent such as MRICS
• Experience working on technically complex infrastructure projects, including during construction phases
• Experience managing contract cash flow, contract governance, and change to essential criteria
• Demonstrable experience administering contracts using CEMAR
• Proven experience in cost control and valuation of works
• Competent in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, Teams, Access, and PowerPoint
• Practical, hands-on experience administering NEC3 ECC and or PSC contracts
• Demonstrable experience administering contracts using Thinkproject Contracts

Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at [e-mail] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Benefits

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Employee Ownership

• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.

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