Senior Quantity Surveyor

About The Role

Join our Power Commercial team as a Senior Quantity Surveyor, and you’ll help deliver complex work that really matters to our business, contributing to some of the largest and most significant infrastructure projects in the industry.

Location:
Dundee, Scotland

We are looking for a self‑motivated Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Commercial Team supporting one of the largest infrastructure projects in Scotland, based in Dundee.

You’ll be part of a collaborative, high‑performing commercial team responsible for the full commercial and financial management of major, complex projects—from inception, tendering, negotiating and agreeing contracts (including NEC), through to effective commercial delivery. These projects typically carry values in the many tens of millions.

• Manage costs in relation to infrastructure projects with experience of identifying commercial risks and opportunities in respect of their works.
• Deliver varied commercial duties including responsibility for procuring and managing supply chain.
• Optimise commercial performance through diligent cost control and value for money opportunities, whilst achieving the required standards and quality for our customers.
• Create and maintain commercial relationships to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Contract administration with both client and subcontractors.
• Provide support and adherence for the Gated Business Lifecycle processes.
• Mentor and develop junior members of the team.
• Proactively drive career and personal development, including professional certification.
• Commercial management of a large infrastructure project or a portfolio of smaller projects.

• You will have the following qualities/experience:
• BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or experience equivalent.
• Membership of RICS, ICES or CIOB (or working towards).
• Experience with key contracts such as NEC.
• Good communication skills.
• Great Teamwork / Role Mode.
• Leadership skills.
• Achievement Focus (Achieving Results).
• Business and Customer Awareness.
• Applies organisational aims & objectives.
• Identifies with the customer needs.
• Recognises opportunities & threats.
• Experience working on NEC 3 & 4 Contracts.

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.

This is a hybrid role based in either Iverness or Westhill (Aberdeenshire), with regular travel to current key site locations in Aberdeenshire and Stirlingshire and the flexibility to work from home, supported by Balfour Beatty’s smart working policy.

• Competitive salary + car
• 37.5-hour workweek (Monday to Friday)
• Hybrid and flexibility inline with the Balfour Beatty smart working policy.
• Pension scheme:
  Up to 5% employee & 7% employer contributions
• Family-friendly policies:
• 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave
• 4 weeks full pay for paternity/partner leave
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Professional development:
  Access to a broad range of learning opportunities, including qualifications
• Employee Assistance Programme for support and well-being
• Volunteering opportunities:
  Up to 2 days per year

Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on‑going maintenance, our in‑house experts, flexible resources and industry‑leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

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