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 and build something to be proud of. Based at the Warrington office, the role requires occasional visits to site at Sellafield, Seascale, Cumbria.

We’re looking for an Engineering Construction Senior Quantity Surveyor with experience in the nuclear or energy sector to manage commercial activities on complex industrial projects, including energy and utilities infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will have experience working on large‑scale engineering construction projects such as power generation, water treatment, energy infrastructure, or nuclear decommissioning. A good understanding of NEC contracts is essential.

You will be responsible for cost management, contract administration, and commercial reporting across multidisciplinary engineering projects, working closely with technical teams to manage interfaces and support successful project delivery.

You will seek to minimise the costs of a project and enhance value for money, while still achieving the required standards and quality. Typically, the successful applicant will be a Chartered Member of the RICS, ICES or CIOB, have experience managing a small team of less experienced commercial staff, and mentor others on their journey to becoming professionally qualified. They will maintain their Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and work within Engineering Construction for nuclear waste processing and storage and nuclear decommissioning.

• Clean driving licence
• Must be able to pass a DBS check as part of BPSS security clearance
• Must come from an Engineering Construction background
• Must have experience working on large scale engineering construction projects such as power, water, energy or nuclear decommissioning
• Experience with multidisciplinary engineering projects and technical interfaces
• Good Excel skills (formulas, vlookups, pivot tables, sumifs
• Ability to analyse data
• Knowledge of and adheres to the company’s governance requirements and maximises LEAN/digital opportunities.
• Commercial Management / Quantity Surveying
• NEC experience
• Subcontract procurement
• Management of subcontract packages
• Change management and pricing compensation events
• CVR
• Application for payment
• Cost forecasting
• Cost reporting
• Internal forecasting
• Cost audit
• Cash flow forecasting
• Stakeholder management
• Use of CEMAR
• Remeasurement

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

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/partner leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much 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.

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