Senior Quantity Surveyor

About the role

You don’t need prior Power sector experience for this role, you can learn that with us. What is essential is experience working under NEC3 contracts.

We’re recruiting for the BBNP project, with flexibility to work from our Inverness or Glasgow office, and with the site based in Elgin.

We welcome applicants from any industry with NEC experience. Direct experience in the power sector isn’t essential — you’ll build this through structured training, on‑the‑job learning, and continued professional development. If you’re commercially minded and ready to grow, we’ll equip you with everything you need to thrive and develop deep sector expertise.

• Manage costs in relation to infrastructure projects with experience of identifying commercial risks and opportunities in respect of their works.
• Deliver varied commercial duties including responsibility for procuring and managing supply chain.
• Optimise commercial performance through diligent cost control and value for money opportunities, whilst achieving the required standards and quality for our customers.
• Create and maintain commercial relationships to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Contract administration with both client and subcontractors.
• Provide support and adherence for the Gated Business Lifecycle processes.
• Mentor and develop junior members of the team.
• Proactively drive career and personal development, including professional certification.
• Commercial management of a large infrastructure project or a portfolio of smaller projects.

• You will have the following qualities/experience:
• BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or experience equivalent.
• Membership of RICS, ICES or CIOB (or working towards).
• Experience with key contracts such as NEC.
• Good communication skills.
• Great Teamwork / Role Mode.
• Leadership skills.
• Achievement Focus (Achieving Results).
• Business and Customer Awareness.
• Applies organisational aims & objectives.
• Identifies with the customer needs.
• Recognises opportunities & threats.
  
  Experience working on NEC 3 & 4 Contracts.

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.

• Competitive Salary
• 37.5 hours Monday to Friday
• Company DC pension scheme up to 5% EEs & 7% ERs
• Company car
• Hybrid working
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications
• Employee assistance programme
• Up to 2 days volunteering per year

Our skilled and dedicated teams deliver a range of proactive and reactive services which support a reliable and safe supply of power flowing to millions of homes and businesses around the world. Our contracts range from 50,000 schemes to 100 million plus major projects.

Balfour Beatty's Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions. With experience and expertise across the full spectrum of the electricity grid our teams have capability across overhead lines, cable tunnels, distribution networks and substations. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on‑going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry‑leading innovations support clients in the development of some of the world's most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

This position is open to all qualified candidates regardless of race, gender, disability, or other protected characteristics.