Senior Quantity Surveyor

About the Role

Job Title
:
Senior Quantity Surveyor

Location
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Eastbourne, East Sussex

Project Type
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Living Places - Highways and Public Realm Improvement

Company
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Balfour Beatty Group

Balfour Beatty Living Places provides highways maintenance, street lighting, and public realm services across the UK — creating safe, sustainable environments where communities thrive.

We now have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our East Sussex contract, based from our Eastbourne office. You’ll play a key role in managing the commercial aspects of our local authority partnership, ensuring best value, compliance, and continuous improvement across a varied and dynamic portfolio of work.

As Senior Quantity Surveyor, You’ll

• Support the Commercial and Finance Manager in delivering commercial strategy and performance.
• Manage the commercial lifecycle of assigned contracts, from cost forecasting and valuations to final accounts.
• Lead subcontract management, including procurement, administration, variations, and final settlements.
• Coach and support operational teams on commercial best practice and change management.
• Work closely with finance colleagues on monthly WIP valuations, accruals, and reporting.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and customer focus.
• Promote Balfour Beatty’s values of Integrity, Teamwork, Excellence and Respect in every interaction.

You’ll Bring

• Proven experience as a Quantity Surveyor in a highways or public realm environment.
• Strong working knowledge of NEC3/NEC4 forms of contract.
• Commercial acumen and the ability to deliver results in a collaborative team setting.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• Strong IT skills (Excel, Word, commercial systems).
• Ideally chartered (MRICS/MCInstCES) or working towards professional qualification.

• Be part of a business improving local communities through sustainable infrastructure.
• Access to industry-leading learning, development, and chartership support.
• Competitive salary, company car/car allowance, and comprehensive benefits package.
• Hybrid and flexible working to support work-life balance.

The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.

We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.

We're proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it’s sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10 approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.

70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.

For further information about Balfour Beatty Living Places please go to  - You can also check out further job opportunities in the careers section

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and…