Managing Quantity Surveyor

About The Role

Balfour Beatty is looking for an experienced Managing Quantity Surveyor to join our Regional Civils division, supporting a range of projects across the Central and South East region.

This is a senior commercial position with responsibility for ensuring strong commercial and contractual control across projects, working closely with operational teams and key stakeholders to drive effective commercial performance. You’ll lead and coordinate commercial activity, managing a small team of Quantity Surveyors either on a major project or across a portfolio of projects, depending on location and workload.

As Managing Quantity Surveyor, you’ll provide commercial leadership, guidance and support to the wider Quantity Surveying team and Project Directors and Managers, helping to manage contractual obligations, commercial risk, change control, cost performance and project outcomes throughout the delivery lifecycle.

It’s an excellent opportunity for an established commercial professional looking to take a leading role within Regional Civils, combining hands-on project involvement with team leadership and wider commercial responsibility across the Central and South East portfolio.

What you'll be doing

• Lead and manage the commercial performance of projects, ensuring appropriate commercial and contractual control is maintained throughout delivery.
• Manage, support and develop a team of Quantity Surveyors, providing commercial guidance to the wider project team and Project Directors/Managers.
• Work closely with Project Management teams to develop and implement the commercial strategy, protecting project profitability and delivering required margins.
• Manage project cost and value reporting, ensuring financial information is accurate, up to date and aligned with budgets, tender allowances and commitments.
• Produce accurate cost-to-complete forecasts, continually monitoring projected costs against agreed budgets.
• Take ownership of change control, ensuring variations are identified, valued, submitted and converted into agreed contractual change in a timely manner.
• Proactively manage cash flow, valuations and applications for payment, ensuring submissions are accurate and made in accordance with contractual requirements.
• Maintain robust commercial records to support variations, contractual entitlements and claims where required.
• Lead the subcontract procurement and tendering process, including subcontractor selection, commercial evaluation and preparation of appropriate contract documentation.
• Ensure subcontract packages appropriately reflect and step down relevant Main Contract obligations, with subcontract accounts managed in accordance with agreed terms and conditions.
• Manage commercial interfaces with customers, subcontractors, supply chain partners and internal teams, ensuring information is provided effectively and on time.
• Provide accurate monthly cost and value reporting and contribute to formal project reviews with the Project Management team.
• Lead the preparation, negotiation and agreement of final accounts, including the resolution of subcontractor final accounts.
• Ensure projects operate in accordance with company commercial procedures, BMS requirements and Group Minimum Commercial Expectations.
• Where appropriate, utilise BIM to support progress monitoring, commercial reporting, change management and variation control, while encouraging effective supply chain integration.
• Ensure all commercial activities are undertaken in accordance with company health, safety and environmental procedures, maintaining a relentless focus on Zero Harm.
• Support the delivery of wider sustainability objectives and demonstrate Balfour Beatty’s values in the day-to-day leadership of the commercial function.
  
  

Who we're looking for

• Substantial experience in Quantity Surveying and commercial management within a relevant construction, civil engineering or infrastructure environment.
• Proven experience of managing the commercial performance of major projects, with a strong understanding of margin, risk, cost, cash flow and profitability.
• Strong commercial and contractual awareness, with the ability to identify opportunities, manage commercial risk and maximise project performance.
• Demonstrable experience of leading, managing and developing commercial teams, including Quantity Surveyors at different levels of experience.
• A proven ability to lead, influence and communicate effectively with project teams, senior stakeholders, clients and supply chain partners.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to develop and implement commercial strategies that support and exceed project profitability targets.
• Significant experience working within a relevant sector, ideally across civil engineering, infrastructure or major construction projects.
• A strong understanding of change control, cost management, forecasting, subcontract management and final accounts.
• The confidence to provide commercial advice and challenge to Project Directors and Project Managers, supporting effective commercial decision-making.
• A valid CSCS card.
• A relevant professional qualification and/or membership of a recognised professional body such as RICS, CIOB, ICE, RIBA or CIBSE would be desirable.
  
  

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.

Why join us?

Benefits

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
  
  

About Us

With a strong track record of delivery, our civils teams connect communities through infrastructure projects in the highways, public realm, rail, flood and coastal defence, and industrial sectors across England and Wales.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.

We’re looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via candidaterecruitmentenquiries@balfourbeatty.com