Senior Quantity Surveyor

Location: Hook Norton

Senior Quantity Surveyor | High-End Residential | Oxford | Freelance | Immediate

Join a contractor delivering an £15m high-end residential scheme in Oxford that’s… let’s say keeping everyone on their toes.

For the right person, it’s less “firefighting” and more “commercial problem-solving with influence.”

It’s a project that’s reached that stage where it needs a confident Senior QS to step in, organise the paperwork, tidy up the moving parts, and steer the ship back into calm waters.

If you’re after a quiet, maintenance-mode role where nothing changes… this probably isn’t that.

But if you enjoy getting stuck in, bringing structure to complexity, and turning hard-fought contractual discussions into tangible commercial wins - this is a genuinely interesting opportunity to make a visible impact, quickly.

The Role

• Take control of a live £11m high-end residential scheme

• Build up and substantiate a significant variation account (with plenty of backtracking required)

• Deal with claims, contract changes, and revision management (20 revisions and counting)

• Get properly stuck into subcontractor accounts and drive final accounts to closure

• Work alongside an Assistant QS, with the Project Lead fronting the client

This is a hands-on, commercially sensitive role - more firefighting and commercial recovery than clean-slate delivery.

What they’re looking for

• Strong Senior QS from a main contractor background

• Proven experience navigating difficult contracts or strained project environments

• Confident dealing with claims, variations, and change management

• Comfortable operating in challenging client-facing scenarios (even if you’re not leading that interface here)

• Calm under pressure - someone who doesn’t panic when things get… interesting

High-end residential experience isn’t essential. Experience managing complex commercial situations absolutely is.

The Business
An established contractor delivering high-quality residential schemes — builder-led, delivery-focused, and needing someone commercially sharp to bring order to a tricky situation.

It’s not an easy environment. But for the right operator, this is a chance to step into a live scheme, clear a backlog, stabilise the commercial position, and genuinely add value from day one.

Interested?
Michael Ogunyankin | (phone number removed) | (url removed)

If you’ve ever walked into a project and thought, “Right… let’s sort this out,” we should talk