Quantity Surveyor (North West)
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About The Role
At Balfour Beatty, we're delivering the buildings and infrastructure that shape the world around us. We're looking for an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Regional Build team in the North West, where you'll play a key role in the commercial success of our projects and help deliver outstanding results for our clients.
This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of key commercial activities, work alongside talented construction professionals and contribute to a diverse portfolio of building projects. If you're commercially astute, enjoy building strong relationships and are ready to make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.
As Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll take responsibility for managing the commercial performance of your projects, ensuring costs are controlled, risks are managed and opportunities are maximised throughout the project lifecycle.
What you'll be doing
As a Quantity Surveyor You Will Be
At Balfour Beatty, we're delivering the buildings and infrastructure that shape the world around us. We're looking for an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Regional Build team in the North West, where you'll play a key role in the commercial success of our projects and help deliver outstanding results for our clients.
This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of key commercial activities, work alongside talented construction professionals and contribute to a diverse portfolio of building projects. If you're commercially astute, enjoy building strong relationships and are ready to make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.
As Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll take responsibility for managing the commercial performance of your projects, ensuring costs are controlled, risks are managed and opportunities are maximised throughout the project lifecycle.
What you'll be doing
As a Quantity Surveyor You Will Be
- Leading the commercial management of projects, ensuring financial targets and contractual obligations are achieved.
- Preparing and managing budgets, cost plans, forecasts and regular financial reports.
- Managing subcontract procurement, valuations, payments and final accounts.
- Identifying and managing commercial risks and opportunities, implementing strategies to protect and improve project margins.
- Monitoring project costs and providing accurate financial forecasts and commercial updates to the wider team.
- Managing contractual correspondence and ensuring compliance with relevant contract conditions.
- Building strong working relationships with clients, subcontractors, suppliers and internal stakeholders.
Who we're looking for
You Will Have The Following Experience
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:
Operating across England and Wales, our buildings teams create places where people live, are cared for, work, learn, meet and have fun, with a focus on the aviation, health, defence, education and development sectors.
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
You Will Have The Following Experience
- Proven experience in a Quantity Surveying role within the construction industry, with experience operating at Senior Quantity Surveyor level.
- A degree or equivalent qualification in Quantity Surveying or a related discipline.
- Strong knowledge of construction contracts, commercial procedures and cost management.
- Experience managing subcontract packages, procurement, valuations and final accounts.
- Excellent financial analysis, reporting and forecasting skills.
- The ability to identify commercial risks and opportunities and develop effective solutions.
- Strong communication and negotiation skills, with the confidence to engage with clients and stakeholders at all levels.
- A collaborative approach, with the ability to support and develop colleagues.
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…
Operating across England and Wales, our buildings teams create places where people live, are cared for, work, learn, meet and have fun, with a focus on the aviation, health, defence, education and development sectors.
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
