Quantity Surveyor

About The Role Quantity Surveyor – Balfour Beatty – Connect Plus Services (CPS)

Location:

Dartford, Leatherhead or South Mimms

We have an exciting opportunity for a Quantity Surveyor to join our Connect Plus Services (CPS) team, supporting the M25 London Orbital Motorway project.

CPS is a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins and Egis, responsible for operating and maintaining the M25—Europe’s busiest motorway. Delivering over £100m of annual investment, alongside planned and reactive maintenance, this is a complex and high-profile network requiring robust and efficient planning.

If you are building a career in highways, this role offers exposure to one of the UK’s most challenging and dynamic infrastructure environments.

A Quantity Surveyor has a number of years’ experience in measurement and valuation of civil engineering work and reconciling to costs. They will be supporting other more senior members of the commercial team in delivering the varied commercial duties as well as being responsible for procuring and administrating our supply chain agreements. They actively seek to minimise the costs of a project and enhance value for money, while still achieving the required standards and quality for our Customers.

Typically a QS will be chartered or in the final stages of achieving professional membership of the RICS, ICES or similar professional body and will be a peer role model for those less experienced members of the commercial team.

• Has a good knowledge of and adheres to the Company’s GMCEs, BMS and other governance

• Orders information and systematically checks data

• Measure, record & value work unsupervised in accordance with appropriate rules and procedures

• Measure & interpret specifications & drawings
• Build up estimates from first principle including net and gross estimates
• Translate measurement from drawings and Specifications and prepare Bills of Quantities and Schedules of rates

• Review weekly, monthly, section programmes of works
• Plan commercial activities to meet requirements of section programmes
• Have an understanding of delay and disruption programmes

• Use the company’s ERP System
• Collation of Cost and Value Information
• Preparation of Cost reconciliation statements

• 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.

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• 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…

Connect Plus Services (CPS) brings together the collective strength of our parent companies - Balfour Beatty, Atkins and Egis Road Operation UK. With around 600 people, based at eight locations across the M25 network, we work on behalf of Connect Plus and National Highways to manage the operation of the M25 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, from routine maintenance to managing the whole-life requirement of thousands of assets across the network.

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