Senior Quantity Surveyor

About The Role

Amazing infrastructure isn’t the only thing that gets built here. Incredible careers do too. Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Senior Quantity Surveyor based from our Maxim Park office in Motherwell and build something to be proud of.

We are looking for an Experienced Quantity Surveyor with a track record in managing all costs and income within their area of responsibility. They seek to minimise the costs of a project and enhance value for money, while still achieving the required standards and quality. Preferably, they will be a Chartered Member of the RICS, CICES or CIOB or working to achieve one in the near future.

Experience of managing a small team of commercial staff as well as mentoring others on their journey to becoming professionally qualified is desirable. They will maintain their Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

• Request information and systematically check data
• Prepare Activity Schedules, Resource Schedules & analyse tender documents
• Critically appraise, estimate and negotiate the above with 3rd parties
• Review complex contract programmes such as Time-Location
• Assist with the preparation of delay and disruption programmes
• Monitor subcontract activities, measure and respond appropriately
• Prepare internal reports, commercial progress and financial reconciliation and report to senior project staff
• Understand the Customer Contract and undertake customer and stakeholder management
• Analyse rates & prices, agreement of variations and or compensation events as required
• Prepare, submit and negotiate claims when required
• Manage commercial aspects with Customer and Stakeholders for their area of responsibility
• Undertake constructability analyses using construction programmes
• Prepare procurement programme and help develop strategy
• Support recruitment, supervision and development of team members
• A good knowledge of and adheres to the Company’s governance requirements and maximises LEAN/digital opportunities

• BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent knowledge
• MRICS/MCInstCES/MCIOB or working towards
• CSCS Card (Professional Qualified Person)

• Smart working, flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, up to 40% remote working where roles allow
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies including 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 more

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick is a leader in mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions. We design, install and maintain the complex systems and technologies that underpin the UK’s national infrastructure and bring buildings to life. We value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, reservists and people with disabilities.

Balfour Beatty is a Disability Confident Employer and is committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We also encourage applications from people who have lived or worked in Facilities Management, Operations and Service Management.