Senior Quantity Surveyor

Overview

In this Senior Quantity Surveyor role, you will lead commercial management for complex project packages, ensuring robust governance and accurate cost control. You’ll collaborate with project teams, subcontractors and clients to optimise budgets and cash flow while managing variations and contract changes. The role sits at the core of delivering financial performance across major projects, balancing risk with opportunity. You’ll contribute to senior-level reports and drive cross-functional collaboration to support project delivery and governance.

Pay / Benefits

• Benefits package available

Responsibilities

• Manage budgets, cost forecasts, cash flow and cost reporting
• Oversee contract administration and change management
• Handle variations, compensation events, claims and contractual change
• Manage procurement, tendering, valuations, payments and account management with subcontractors and suppliers
• Maintain commercial governance, cost assurance and audit compliance
• Prepare and review interim valuations and final accounts
• Produce comprehensive commercial reports for senior management and clients
• Collaborate with engineering, planning, project controls, procurement, risk and delivery teams
• Identify issues, assess commercial exposure and escalate as needed

Key requirements

• Proven experience as Quantity Surveyor, Senior Quantity Surveyor or Commercial Surveyor in major construction, engineering, infrastructure or complex project environments
• Strong experience in commercial and cost management of projects or defined work packages
• Experience managing budgets, cost forecasts, cash flow and cost reporting
• Strong knowledge of contract administration and change management
• Experience managing variations, compensation events, claims and/or contractual change
• Experience managing subcontractors and suppliers including procurement, tendering, valuations, payments, and account management
• Strong understanding of commercial risk and opportunity management
• Experience preparing and reviewing interim valuations and final accounts
• Strong understanding of commercial governance, cost assurance and audit requirements
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills with attention to detail
• Ability to produce accurate commercial reports for senior management and clients
• Strong communication, negotiation and stakeholder management skills

• collaborative mindset
• strong communication and negotiation
• stakeholder management
• cost management
• contract administration
• change management

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