Location
London, based out of Canary Wharf

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Attractive/negotiated salary with discretionary annual bonus

About the Role
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Managing Quantity Surveyor to join our Ground Engineering team in London. In this role, you will take a lead commercial position across large building and civil engineering projects, or a portfolio of smaller schemes, managing all costs and income from initial estimates through to final accounts. You will bring significant experience in controlling project costs, maximising value for money, and maintaining the required standards of quality, governance, and commercial performance.

With a strong track record of leading commercial teams, you will support effective decision-making, guide junior colleagues, and act as a mentor to others working towards professional qualification. Ideally, you will be a Chartered Member of RICS, ICES or CIOB, committed to maintaining your Continuing Professional Development and promoting best practice across the commercial function.

The successful candidate will be accountable for adhering to company governance requirements while identifying opportunities to maximise LEAN and digital ways of working. You will apply strong commercial management principles including cost control, elemental cost analysis, and lifecycle cost considerations. Managing subcontractors and wider supply chain partners effectively to support successful project delivery will be key.

You will identify cost-sensitive areas, mitigate commercial risks, and support robust risk and opportunity management. Responsibilities also include preparing and managing pricing documents, activity schedules, bills of quantities, target costs, forecasts, and budgets, as well as monitoring project progress against programme, performance indicators, budgets, and critical commercial processes.

Additional duties include preparing delay and disruption programmes, supporting accurate reporting of commercial progress and performance, managing customer and stakeholder commercial requirements including cost planning, pre-contract cost control, and contractual correspondence. You will lead procurement activity by evaluating and negotiating complex tenders with subcontractors and suppliers and support recruitment, development, and people management activities for direct and indirect reports.

At Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering, our commercial staff play a key role in delivering some of the UK's most complex and technically challenging ground engineering projects. You will be part of a national business with opportunities to work alongside industry-leading specialists and contribute to high-profile projects across the UK.

Ground engineering is at the heart of major infrastructure delivery, from piling and foundations through to complex geotechnical solutions. Our commercial teams operate at the forefront of these specialist works, providing a unique opportunity to develop expertise within a highly technical and commercially rewarding sector.

With an exciting pipeline of work across infrastructure, energy, rail, and major construction projects, you'll join a fast-paced business that combines the agility of a specialist contractor with the strength of a national organisation. Most importantly, you'll join a collaborative and supportive team that takes pride in delivering excellence for our customers whilst creating an environment where people can develop, challenge themselves, and build rewarding careers.

Some of our key benefits include medical health cover, company car or car allowance, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, pension savings schemes, enhanced maternity/paternity and family friendly policies, access to our Refer and Earn scheme, and discretionary annual salary reviews.

Experience
- Quantity Surveyor with a BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying, or equivalent professional experience
- Strong commercial management experience including cost control, pricing documents, forecasts, budgets, and cost reporting
- Experience managing subcontractors, suppliers, tenders, procurement activity, and supply chain relationships
- Confident in identifying commercial risks, cost-sensitive areas, and opportunities to improve project outcomes
- Strong understanding of project governance, programme monitoring, stakeholder requirements, and contractual correspondence

About you
- A collaborative and proactive professional who can support people development, embrace digital ways of working, and contribute to successful project delivery
- Ability to lead commercial teams, support effective decision-making, and mentor junior colleagues

Qualifications
- Membership of RICS, ICES or CIOB, with CPD maintained, or actively working towards professional membership
- Professionally qualified individual with a valid CSCS card or ability to obtain relevant accreditation