Senior Quantity Surveyor

Senior Quantity Surveyor – Infrastructure

Location:

Bedfordshire

Galliford Try is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Infrastructure team, supporting the successful delivery of a variety of local authority projects across the Bedfordshire region. You’ll play a key role in managing the commercial performance of civil engineering schemes, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget while maintaining strong relationships with clients and stakeholders.

• Ensure a safe working environment
• Produce and negotiate subcontract documentation, including terms, prices, and programme
• Manage subcontract works packages, including interim assessments and change management
• Produce and issue all commercial notices to both the client and subcontractors as required by the contract
• Oversee and manage changes in a timely manner, including compensation event quotations
• Produce, submit, and agree monthly applications with the client per contract terms
• Liaise with operational and engineering staff to maintain required site records
• Produce detailed monthly reports, Cost Value Reconciliation (CVR), and maintain a cost plan with expenditure tracking and forecasting

• Good appreciation of NEC contracts
• Strong IT skills including Excel, Word and contract and cost management systems (CEMAR, Oracle)
• Relevant degree or equivalent and/or experience of working in a relevant commercial environment
• Experience working on large single or multiple smaller schemes
• CSCS appropriate
• First‑class time and outcome management skills
• Professional qualification such as MCIOB or MRICS, ideally incorporated member, working towards full membership (desirable)

With an impressive order book of over £4.1 billion we are one of the industry’s leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK’s most exciting projects. We provide stability, the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long‑held career goals, high‑quality training and support through our career paths initiative, and an agile working programme that offers flexibility in when, where and how you work.

• Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
• A wide range of corporate discounts
• Cycle to work schemes
• Comprehensive pension plan
• Competitive family leave policy
• Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
• Private medical scheme options for salaried employees and 24/7 employee assistance programme
• Paid yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role

Our purpose is to improve people’s lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need. We provide opportunities for our people to learn, grow and progress while promoting best working practice and caring for the environment. We hold true to our values, delivering excellence for our clients and the community, with integrity at the heart of our business.

For more information on this role or to enquire about other positions within our Infrastructure business please contact Jenny Reid at .

Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full‑time, part‑time or flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail as part of the recruitment process. We encourage you to confirm any requirements we can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience. As a Disability Confident employer, we offer an interview to any candidate with a long‑term health condition or disability that meets the essential criteria for the advertised position and will discuss any adjustments required.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Management and Manufacturing

Construction, Civil Engineering, and Utilities