Quantity Surveyor; United Utilities

Lanes Group is one of the UK's leading utility services providers, with almost 5,000 employees delivering essential services nationwide. As one Lanes Group, we combine specialist expertise, innovation and a customer-first approach to provide industry-leading solutions across the sectors we serve. With annual revenues exceeding £700 million, we are a growing business that offers exciting opportunities, a collaborative culture and the chance to make a real impact.

Join us and be part of an organisation that values diversity, invests in development and helps people build successful careers.

Sapphire Utility Solutions, a Lanes Group Company specialise in multiple divisions.

works closely with operational, delivery, and support teams across the business, providing commercial oversight, contract management, financial control, and strategic guidance to ensure projects are delivered efficiently, profitably, and in line with contractual obligations.

The team is responsible for protecting and enhancing business value through effective cost management, risk mitigation, procurement support, and stakeholder engagement. By driving commercial best practice and informed decision-making, they help maximise project performance, support sustainable growth, and ensure the business delivers outstanding outcomes for customers and partners.

We are looking for a commercially focused Quantity Surveyor to take ownership of allocated work streams across our United Utilities contract.

This is a high-volume, low-value contract environment where accuracy, pace, strong process control and attention to detail are essential. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the end-to-end Quantity Surveying process across several work streams, ensuring works are commercially controlled from instruction and delivery through to valuation, Application for Payment, WIP management, query resolution and final account.

The role will require someone who can work confidently with Operations, Planning, Finance, Administration and client representatives to ensure works are valued correctly, costs are captured accurately, payments are progressed, and commercial entitlement is protected.

Leyland

40 Hours per week

• Take ownership of the QS process across allocated work streams.
• Manage works from instruction/completion through to valuation, Application for Payment, payment resolution and final account.
• Ensure each workstream is commercially controlled, accurately reported and progressed in line with contract requirements.
• Manage a high volume of low-value jobs, ensuring pace, accuracy and strong attention to detail.
• Ensure all works are valued correctly using the appropriate schedule of rates, agreed pricing mechanism or commercial process.
• Identify and resolve commercial issues that could delay billing, payment or final account agreement.
• Maintain strong audit trails and supporting evidence across allocated work streams.

• Prepare, review and submit accurate Applications for Payment for allocated work streams.
• Ensure submissions are complete, accurate and supported by the required evidence.
• Review completed works to ensure all chargeable activities, materials, plant, subcontractors and variations are captured.
• Progress client queries, rejections and unpaid items in a timely manner.
• Work with Operations and Administration teams to obtain missing photos, measures, job notes, completion details or supporting information.
• Track reasons for rejected or delayed items and support actions to reduce repeat issues.
• Ensure revenue is recognised accurately and in line with commercial governance.

• Own and manage WIP across allocated work streams.
• Review aged WIP regularly, challenging and progressing outstanding items.
• Identify blockers preventing billing, approval or payment and drive actions to resolve them.
• Monitor outstanding AFPs, queried items, rejected items and unpaid values.
• Support final account agreement across allocated work streams, ensuring values are accurate and well evidenced.
• Escalate aged, high-risk or recurring issues where required.

• Monitor cost, value and margin performance across allocated work streams.
• Manage CVR reporting for allocated work streams, ensuring revenue, cost, margin, WIP, risk and opportunity positions are accurate and clearly understood.
• Review job-level costs,…