Senior Quantity Surveyor

Senior Quantity Surveyor Lower Thames Crossing (Delivery) — Balfour Beatty Highways

At Balfour Beatty, we deliver infrastructure that shapes communities, supports connectivity and leaves a lasting legacy. As a leader in major civil engineering, we combine technical excellence with an industry leading commitment to innovation, digital delivery and low carbon construction. Join us and be part of projects that strengthen the UK's future.

Help deliver one of the UK’s most significant highways programmes.

Our £1.2bn Lower Thames Crossing package includes 43 bridges (including viaducts), 17km of complex highways construction, major utility diversions, and a scheme‑wide, industry‑leading approach to carbon reduction. Join the delivery side of the project and be the commercial heartbeat of high‑profile work packages that make a national impact.

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will act as a key commercial interface between project delivery teams, subcontractors, and the client, ensuring compliance with contract terms, robust cost control, and clear, accurate reporting.

• Lead the day‑to‑day commercial management of live works, ensuring full compliance with main contract and subcontracts.
• Administer NEC target cost arrangements (defined cost, disallowed cost, compensation events, pain/gain verification) with clear, auditable records.
• Drive cost forecasting and control, aligning budgets with construction programmes and progress on site.
• Own change control: raise early warnings, prepare/agree compensation event quotations, and secure timely approvals.
• Partner with delivery, design and the client to de‑risk utilities interfaces, resolve issues quickly and keep work moving.
• Track and report subcontractor accounts (payments, liabilities, variations) and support final account agreement.
• Produce concise, insight‑led commercial reports, CVRs, risk/opportunity updates and inputs to project dashboards and reviews.
• Champion governance and LEAN/digital ways of working to improve speed, clarity and value.

• BSc/MSc in Quantity Surveying (or equivalent knowledge).
• MRCIS/MCInstCES/MCIOB (or progressing towards).
• CSCS (Professional Qualified Person).
• Strong highways/major civils experience
• Sharp commercial acumen, confident communicator and collaborator across multiple stakeholders.
• Track record of proactive risk, change and cost management in fast‑paced delivery environments.

• Work on a career‑defining national infrastructure programme with clear scope, scale and complexity.
• Join a team committed to predictable performance, carbon reduction and modern methods of delivery.
• Competitive reward, flexible benefits and real opportunities to grow your career across our Highways portfolio.

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’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

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