Senior Quantity Surveyor

About The Role

At Balfour Beatty, we don’t just deliver projects — we deliver the roads people drive on every day, the flood defences that protect communities, the structures that connect cities, and the utilities that power growth.

We’re looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor with strong civil engineering experience to take commercial ownership of major schemes across Yorkshire and the wider region. If you understand the realities of ground conditions, programme pressure, subcontractor management, and NEC risk allocation — and you enjoy being at the heart of delivery — this is your kind of role.

As Senior QS, you’ll take commercial responsibility for major schemes from pre‑contract through to final account. You’ll provide leadership to project teams, ensure robust cost control, and protect commercial performance while maintaining strong client relationships.

As Senior QS, you’ll be the commercial lead on projects that matter. You’ll:

• Take full responsibility for cost control from pre‑construction to final account
• Administer and manage NEC3/NEC4 contracts with confidence
• Lead subcontract procurement, negotiation, and account management
• Own CVRs, forecasting, and reporting with clarity and accuracy
• Drive early identification and resolution of risk and change
• Support operational teams with pragmatic commercial advice
• Mentor and develop Assistant and Project Quantity Surveyors.

• Significant experience in civil engineering or infrastructure projects
• A strong working knowledge of NEC contracts
• A track record of managing high‑value, complex packages
• Experience dealing with self‑delivery and subcontractor models
• Degree‑qualified in Quantity Surveying (or similar)
• MRICS (or working towards) desirable.

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.

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life.

Here are some of our key benefits:

• 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/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

With a strong track record of delivery, our civils teams connect communities through infrastructure projects in the highways, public realm, rail, flood and coastal defence, and industrial sectors across England and Wales.

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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. For more info, visit: https://disabil

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