Senior Quantity Surveyor

Balfour; Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - GBP 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction and engineering company in the UK is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join its Power Commercial team. This role will involve managing costs for significant infrastructure projects, optimising commercial performance, and developing relationships with stakeholders. The ideal candidate should possess a degree in Quantity Surveying or equivalent, alongside key skills in communication, leadership, and contract management. Competitive salary and benefits, including hybrid working and a company pension scheme, are offered.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Company DC pension scheme

Company car

Hybrid working

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Broad range of learning opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Up to 2 days volunteering per year

Qualifications

• Experience with key contracts such as NEC.
• Direct experience in the power sector isn’t essential.
• Ability to mentor and develop junior team members.

Responsibilities

• Manage costs in relation to infrastructure projects.
• Deliver varied commercial duties, including managing the supply chain.
• Create and maintain commercial relationships with stakeholders.

Skills

Good communication skills

Leadership skills

Business and Customer Awareness

Teamwork

Achievement Focus

Identifies opportunities & threats

Education

BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent experience

Membership of RICS, ICES or CIOB

Tools

Experience with NEC contracts

Job description

About the Role

Join our Power Commercial team as a Senior Quantity Surveyor, and you’ll play a key role in delivering complex, high‑value work that truly matters to our business. You’ll also contribute to some of the most significant infrastructure projects in the industry. Balfour Beatty Power is at the forefront of the UK’s transition to Net Zero. We’re reinforcing Scotland’s energy network to secure community connections and support the integration of new wind power. As we deliver this once‑in‑a‑generation energy transition, we have exciting opportunities across all commercial levels to help shape the future of the energy landscape. We welcome applicants from any industry with experience of working under NEC contracts. Direct experience in the power sector isn’t essential, you’ll build this through structured training, on‑the‑job learning, and ongoing professional support. If you’re commercially minded and ready to grow, we’ll equip you with everything you need to develop deep sector expertise and succeed in the role.

What you'll be doing

• Manage costs in relation to infrastructure projects with experience of identifying commercial risks and opportunities in respect of their works.
• Deliver varied commercial duties including responsibility for procuring and managing supply chain.
• Optimise commercial performance through diligent cost control and value for money opportunities, whilst achieving the required standards and quality for our customers.
• Create and maintain commercial relationships to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Contract administration with both client and subcontractors.
• Provide support and adherence for the Gated Business Lifecycle processes.
• Mentor and develop junior members of the team.
• Proactively drive career and personal development, including professional certification.
• Commercial management of a large infrastructure project or a portfolio of smaller projects.

Who we're looking for

• You will have the following qualities/experience:
• BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or experience equivalent.
• Membership of RICS, ICES or CIOB (or working towards).
• Experience with key contracts such as NEC.
• Good communication skills.
• Great Teamwork / Role Mode.
• Leadership skills.
• Achievement Focus (Achieving Results).
• Business and Customer Awareness.
• Applies organisational aims & objectives.
• Identifies with the customer needs.
• Recognises opportunities & threats.
• Experience working on NEC 3 & 4 Contracts.

Why work for us

• Competitive Salary
• 37.5 hours Monday to Friday
• Company DC pension scheme up to 5% EEs & 7% ERs
• Company car
• Hybrid working
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications
• Employee assistance programme
• Up to 2 days volunteering per year

About Us

Balfour Beatty's Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on‑going maintenance, our in‑house experts, flexible resources and industry‑leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

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/