Senior Quantity Surveyor

Job Description Overview

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will play a pivotal role on a major infrastructure project, taking the lead in managing complex construction changes that shape project success. You will be at the heart of decision‑making—analyzing impacts on cost and schedule, driving clarity, and delivering accurate, transparent insights that enable the project team to move forward with confidence.

• Monitoring and recording impacts on construction costs, including labour, material, equipment, subcontracts and preliminaries.
• Ensure compliance with prime contract obligations.
• Preparing impact analyses and prime contract correspondence.
• Work with the scheduling team to evaluate delays and productivity impacts arising from changes.
• Work with the project controls team to optimise and leverage project controls systems in the management of change.
• Support site teams in understanding and adhering to change management tracking obligations.
• Interface with the owner, design and engineering teams, and other third parties as necessary.
• Support procurement teams with the commercial administration of subcontracts.
• Support construction and project controls team with overall project cost reporting.
• Other quantity surveying and commercial management tasks as required for the project.

• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Engineering, law or a related field.
• 5+ years’ experience in major infrastructure projects.
• Proven experience in complex change management on infrastructure projects, including delay and disruption analysis.
• Strong knowledge of PPP/Target Cost/Collaborative Contracting models.
• Ability to translate technical issues into commercial reasoning.
• Strong contract interpretation and drafting skills.
• Strong change analysis skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• High attention to detail.

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Réalis in Canada. Enjoy competitive compensation, employee recognition, and a brilliant range of flexible benefits you can tailor to your health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle needs. Make the most of diverse opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And take advantage of our hybrid working culture and generous time‑off policies to balance a fulfilling career with your personal life.

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Réalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world‑class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.