Managing Quantity Surveyor

About the Role

At Balfour Beatty, we don’t just build projects, we deliver the critical infrastructure that connects remote communities and strengthens the UK’s energy network. Our Isle of Skye project plays a vital role in supporting the region’s long‑term power resilience, enabling cleaner, more reliable electricity for homes and businesses across the Highlands and Islands.

As part of this major scheme, our Power Transmission & Distribution team is helping to upgrade and reinforce the network across some of Scotland’s most challenging and environmentally sensitive landscapes.

A Managing Quantity Surveyor on the Isle of Skye project will bring deep expertise in commercial management for large‑scale infrastructure and civil engineering works. They will drive effective cost control, manage NEC contracts, and proactively identify opportunities to enhance value for money – all while ensuring the project meets the high standards expected by our clients, local stakeholders, and environmental requirements unique to working on Skye.

• Lead the commercial delivery of major power sector projects, ensuring profitability, sustainability, and client satisfaction.
• Drive commercial strategy, manage risk, and uphold governance across complex contracts.
• Coach and develop your team, setting high standards and fostering growth.
• Build trusted relationships with clients, stakeholders, and partners through transparency and delivery.
• Provide commercial input to value engineering reviews across various construction forms.
• Support tender reviews, including cost data and contract analysis.
• Prepare monthly CVRs and associated commercial reports.
• Report and explain commercial progress to senior project staff.
• Advise on client supply chain requirements and alternative procurement strategies.
• Coordinate buying, accounts, planning, supply chain, procurement, estimating, and surveying functions.

• Proven experience as a Managing QS or a Senior QS ready to step up, ideally within large‑scale infrastructure, energy, or power projects.
• Strong professional QS skills and qualifications, with the ability to apply them in high‑pressure environments.
• FIDIC contract experience is desirable but not essential.
• Results‑driven mindset with a commitment to excellence.
• Chartered Member or Fellow of RICS, ICES, or CIOB, and a mentor to junior commercial staff.
• Strong alignment with Balfour Beatty’s values:
  Lean, Expert, Trusted, Safe.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions. With experience and expertise across the full spectrum of the electricity grid our teams have capability across overhead lines, cable tunnels, distribution networks and substations. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on‑going maintenance, our in‑house experts, flexible resources and industry‑leading innovations support clients in the development of some of the world’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.

You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long‑term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabil