Senior Quantity Surveyor

Balfour Beatty plc; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor for a large infrastructure project in Birmingham. You will oversee commercial management, client relationships, and support team members to ensure contractual compliance. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in civil engineering, possesses relevant qualifications, and is committed to achieving project goals within a collaborative team environment.

Benefits

Flexible working available

Travel allowance

Family friendly leave policies

Health risk assessments

Access to employee assistance programmes

Annual flu vaccinations

Qualifications

• Experience working on large infrastructure and civil engineering projects.
• Membership in RICS, ICES or CIOB.
• Demonstrates high level of commercial and technical knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead tasks independently, ensuring BBV's commercial position is protected.
• Liaise with project and commercial managers for commercial aspects.
• Prepare subcontract invitations, evaluate tenders, and manage subcontracts.

Skills

Commercial management

Contractual knowledge

Client relationship management

Team management

Education

BSc in Quantity Surveying

MSc in Quantity Surveying

Job description

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Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?

Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’s new high speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Senior Quantity Surveyor within the Commercial team. This role will be based on site in Birmingham, West Midlands.

Role Responsibilities:

• Tasked with initiating and leading tasks and processes, taking ownership and being accountable, where relevant, for the work and roles of others whilst exercising broad autonomy and judgement within broad parameters in their area of governance
• Liasing to a Project Manager or Commercial Manager for relevant commercial aspects of a section of a project
• Ensure that BBV’s commercial position is protected using in depth understanding and experience of contractual, commercial, insurance and legal processes
• Some ownership for effective client relationship management to encourage smooth commercial progression of the contract(s)
• Expected to manage and provide development and support to other commercial team members
• Demonstrates and maintains a high level of commercial and technical knowledge and works closely with the delivery team to develop techniques and solutions to meet business and customer needs
• Prepare subcontract invitations to tender and evaluate tender returns and make recommendations to appoint and places subcontracts accurately and on time

Experienced required:

• BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or experience equivalent.
• Experience working on a large infrastructure project.
• Experience on a civil engineering project.
• Membership of RICS, ICES or CIOB.

Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.

Benefits of working with us

• Flexible working available for some roles

• Travel allowance for eligible candidates

• Family friendly leave policies

• Health risk assessments

• Access to employee assistance programmes

• Access to annual flu vaccinations

About Balfour Beatty VINCI

Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.

Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:

• 9.3km of viaducts

• 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels

• 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses

Diversity and Inclusion

Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.

We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Civil Engineering

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