Senior Quantity Surveyor in London

Location: London
Salary: Hidden
Recruiter: Balfour Beatty
Job Hours: Full-time
Remote: Work from home

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About the role

Become part of something special and join our Rail Team working in the heart of London: Were offering a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor to deliver the high-profile engineering and construction works on our London St Overbridge project and leave an outstanding legacy for the community. The project involves the structural repair of the overbridge road between Paddington Station and St Mary's hospital for Network Rail. The project team, based directly in Paddington, are in the process of designing, engineering, building, and managing an exciting project both technically and commercially.

Were offering an exciting and attractive package including hybrid and flexible working to ensure a positive work-life balance. This is a great opportunity to work for a company which values everyone, drives actions to improve diversity and creates an inclusive culture. We encourage innovative and fresh ways of thinking and allowing every employee to be themselves and perform at their very best.

Own your career and build something you can be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our well-established construction team working on a significant pipeline of large-scale future projects, you'll work with true experts wholl share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement, and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning.

What you'll be doing

- Responsible for monthly CVR and NSV reporting and presenting to Management

- Monthly Application to Client

- Quarterly Cost to Complete

- Subcontract Management

- Assessment of change entitlement

- Pricing Changes, submission to Client's representative and negotiation

Who we're looking for

The role requires an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor with several years experience managing costs relating to building and civil engineering projects, as the project contains many changes, a vast experience in change management is fundamental for the job. Exposure to Network rail contracts and working relationship with them in the past would be of advantage. It also requires a level of confidence, the ability to work independently and have a positive can-do-approach to work, work well under pressure, communicate effectively and problem solving.

As the Senior Quantity Surveyor, it is their responsibility to take ownership of all financial and commercial reporting, both internally and towards the Client. A strong IT knowledge is necessary for the fulfilment of the role. The ideal candidate has some line management experience, as the Senior QS will manage a small commercial team of a QS and SQS.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

Supporting these projects, are dedicated and industry leading people delivering on our customer's needs every day.


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