Quantity Surveyor

Job Title: Quantity Surveyor

Location: Warrington, Cheshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76952

Influence major projects while building a career that delivers real impact

At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Quantity Surveyor at Dalton Avenue, near Warrington, Cheshire.

The role

As a Quantity Surveyor, you'll provide commercial support and expertise across project activities, helping to drive both strategic value and operational excellence. You'll work closely with Project Managers, customers, suppliers and subcontractors to ensure contractual obligations are managed effectively while maximising commercial performance and maintaining compliance.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Providing commercial support across project activities including change management, compensation events, contractual notices and governance reviews.
• Supporting the project team with all commercial aspects of project delivery.
• Developing strong relationships with customers, suppliers and internal stakeholders to achieve shared objectives.
• Managing subcontract commercial activities during project execution and mitigating exposure to subcontractor claims.
• Ensuring contractual procedures, compliance requirements and commercial notices are issued accurately and on time.

This is a full-time role working 37 hours per week, based at Dalton Avenue, Warrington. Hybrid working patterns are available with an expectation of three days onsite.

Essential experience of the Quantity Surveyor:

• Experience working with NEC3 or NEC4 contracts.
• Experience developing and maintaining positive stakeholder and customer relationships.
• Experience supporting commercial activities across engineering, construction, infrastructure or manufacturing projects.
• Understanding of contract administration, change management and commercial governance processes.
• Experience working collaboratively within project delivery teams.

Qualifications for the Quantity Surveyor:

• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Building Services Quantity Surveying, or equivalent relevant qualification, or demonstrable experience in a Quantity Surveying role.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Cavendish

We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

Join us and discover how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 13/11/2026

#CAVDESTNUC