Quantity Surveyor

About The Role

At Balfour Beatty, we don’t just deliver projects—we shape communities, connect people, and create infrastructure that stands the test of time. We are looking for a talented and driven Quantity Surveyor to join our team, bringing expertise, innovation, and a passion for excellence to some of the UK’s most exciting construction and infrastructure projects. This is an opportunity to be part of a collaborative environment where your skills will directly influence project success, cost efficiency, and long-term value.

If you’re ready to take on challenging projects, work alongside industry leaders, and grow your career with a company that invests in its people, Balfour Beatty is the place for you.

• Ensure all duties are carried out in accordance with standard company HSE procedures and work instructions
• Commercial management of various civil engineering subcontract packages
• Contribute to the management and maintenance of a contract cost reporting system, ensuring all financial information is managed and up-to-date and tracked with budget/tender allowances, commitments and deviations highlighted and managed
• With other members of the team, produce and provide accurate forecasts of project cost to completion and final value
• Continually monitor projected costs to completion in line with budget
• Ensure that necessary interface information between customer, subcontractors and other departments is provided in a timely manner
• Pro-actively monitor cash flow and valuation plan, ensuring applications are made correctly and in a timely manner
• Ensure contract variations are identified, valued and turned into agreed variation orders with the customer in a timely manner
• Assist in ensuring effective records are maintained to support claims and that applications for payment for variations are issued in a timely manner
• Manage the subcontract tender process, including the selection of sub-contractors and provision of all relevant contract and schedule documentation
• Ensure that subcontracts are placed in an appropriate manner to step down appropriate responsibilities from the Main Contract
• Ensure that each sub-contractor’s account is managed strictly in accordance with their terms and conditions
• Ensure that any insurance claims are notified in accordance with CSUK requirements and that appropriate data is compiled for insurance claims
• Take an active role in assisting the Project Management team member(s) in arranging and undertaking project reviews and issue of associated reports
• Provide accurate monthly reporting of cost and value on the project(s) in line with the Company’s reporting process
• Be responsible for the preparation and agreement of final accounts
• Agree and resolve final accounts with sub-contractors
• Ensure compliance with BMS and Group Minimum Commercial Expectations
• Where appropriate and where used on the specified project , utilise BIM to support progress monitoring, provide commercial reporting and incorporate information to support change management, variations orders and encourage all sub-contractors/ supply chain members to integrate their work into BIM
• Live the Balfour Beatty Values
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm
• Support the delivery of CSUK’s Sustainability activities

• BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or experience equivalent

• Communication
• Teamwork
• Achievement Focus (Achieving Results)
• Previous Commercial Work experience
• Industry knowledge

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…

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