Senior Quantity Surveyor

Balfour; Grays; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure company is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to manage commercial activities for major projects. The role includes contract management, client communication, and risk assessment. The ideal candidate will have a degree in Quantity Surveying and relevant certifications. This opportunity offers competitive pay and comprehensive benefits alongside a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Attractive salary

Company car

25 days annual leave

Pension savings schemes

Employee benefits and discounts

Referral bonus scheme

Qualifications

• MRCIS/MCInstCES/MCIOB or working towards them.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day commercial management of the project.
• Administer the defined cost contract including cost assessments.
• Maintain effective communication with client’s teams regarding financial matters.

Skills

Knowledge of governance requirements

Commercial management expertise

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Education

BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent knowledge

Tools

CSCS Card

Job description

Senior Quantity Surveyor

Closing date: 19/12/2025 Location: Leeds, England, United Kingdom

About The Role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our £1.2 billion Lower Thames Crossing project, consisting of 43 bridges, including viaducts, 17 km of complex highways construction, complex utility diversions, and a scheme‑wide, industry‑leading approach to carbon reduction. Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live, work and play.

What you’ll be doing

Governance

• Has a good knowledge of and adheres to the Company’s governance requirements and maximises LEAN/digital opportunities.

Commercial Management

• Lead the day‑to‑day commercial management of the project, ensuring compliance with the main contract and subcontract agreements.
• Administer the defined cost contract including disallowed cost assessments, compensation events and pain/gain verification.
• Support project cost forecasting and manage the cost control process to maintain budget discipline.

Customer/Change Management

• Understanding of the Customer Contract and undertakes customer and stakeholder management.
• Maintain effective communication with the client’s commercial and project management teams to ensure alignment on financial and contractual matters.
• Manage change control processes, including early warnings, compensation event notifications and submission of detailed quotations in accordance with the contract.
• Provide robust valuation and justification for changes, ensuring entitlement is demonstrated and recoverable.
• Support risk and opportunity management, identifying and escalating potential commercial risks early.

Reporting

• Support the preparation of periodic commercial reports for senior management and client review meetings.
• Monitor and report on subcontractor account status, including payments, liabilities and variations.
• Provide commercial input into project reviews, audits and lessons‑learned exercises.
• Contribute to project dashboards, ensuring key commercial metrics, KPIs and earned value data are up to date.

Who we’re looking for

• BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent knowledge.
• MRCIS/MCInstCES/MCIOB or working towards them.
• CSCS Card (Professional Qualified Person).

Benefits

• An attractive / negotiated salary.
• 42 core base hours per week.
• Company car.
• 25 days annual leave.
• Pension savings schemes.
• A whole host of other BB staff employee benefits (discounts, exclusive offers etc).
• Refer a friend bonus scheme.
• Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available via our balfourbeattycareers.com portal.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

About Us

Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong order book and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and add social value to the communities within which we work.

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 can 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.

We are 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/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [e-mail]

Still interested?

Come and become a colleague with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded £8.6 bn in revenues last year, achieved industry‑leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.