Location
London

Hours
37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday (part time applicants welcomed)

Salary
Competitive Salary

About the Role
Balfour Beatty Power T&D is recruiting for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to support the Lower Thames Crossing Project. The Senior Quantity Surveyor is responsible for the commercial management of projects from pre-contract through to final account, ensuring robust cost control, value for money, commercial compliance, and effective risk management. This role provides leadership to the commercial team and supports the delivery of projects in line with contractual, financial, and governance requirements. The successful candidate will seek to minimise project costs while maximising value, ensuring the highest standards of safety, quality, and performance are achieved.

Typically, the Senior Quantity Surveyor will be a Chartered Member of RICS, ICES, or CIOB (or working towards chartership) and will have experience managing and mentoring less-experienced commercial team members, supporting their development towards professional qualification. The role requires a commitment to maintaining Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and contributing to the ongoing development of commercial capability within the project team.

Key responsibilities include leading the commercial management of assigned projects, ensuring adherence to contract conditions (typically NEC4 or equivalent), managing project budgets, forecasting, cost reporting (CVRs), and change control processes. You will prepare, assess, and agree compensation events, valuations, and final accounts, ensuring payment mechanisms, applications, and certifications are managed accurately and on time. You will manage subcontract procurement strategies, including tendering, negotiation, and contract award, identify and mitigate commercial and contractual risks, and support governance approvals and compliance with internal commercial and financial controls.

Providing clear commercial advice to project teams and senior stakeholders, contributing to dispute avoidance and resolution, and offering line management, mentoring, and technical guidance to Quantity Surveyors and Assistant Quantity Surveyors are also key aspects of the role. Collaboration with project managers, procurement, legal, and finance teams to support successful project delivery is essential, as is building effective relationships with clients, supply chain partners, and internal stakeholders. Producing accurate, timely commercial reports for internal review and senior leadership, ensuring robust record-keeping and audit trails, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives within commercial processes and systems complete the role.

Why work for us
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions was not rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You will have the freedom to shape the package that is right for you and your life. Key benefits include:
- Competitive Salary
- 37.5 hours Monday to Friday (part time applicants welcomed)
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Pension scheme, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, as well as opportunities for remote working where the role allows
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave

Experience
- Strong experience managing commercial activities on major construction or infrastructure projects
- Excellent working knowledge of NEC contracts (NEC3/NEC4 preferred)
- Proven ability to manage risk, change, and cost forecasting
- Experience leading or mentoring commercial team members
- Strong negotiation, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- High level of commercial awareness and attention to detail
- Demonstrated ability to work to deadlines efficiently and to a high standard

About you
- An organised, innovative, and creative Senior Quantity Surveyor with enthusiasm for gaining knowledge and experience of working on diverse projects and portfolios
- Excellent communication skills with all internal and external stakeholders
- Demonstration of resilience and determination to succeed with an achievement focus
- Proactively manages opportunities, risks, and threats

Qualifications
- Typically a Chartered Member of RICS, ICES, or CIOB (or working towards chartership)
- Commitment to maintaining Continuing Professional Development (CPD)