Senior Quantity Surveyor

Company Overview

Mott Mac Donald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy. We transform our clients’ businesses, communities, and employee opportunities by focusing on excellence and digital innovation while respecting each person’s differences. We are proud to be a Glassdoor top employer in the UK and are recognised as a Top Inclusive Company.

As Senior Quantity Surveyor you will support the Water and Environment team in delivering complex infrastructure schemes.

• Support Water Companies in delivering large capital programmes, providing an essential service, and improving the environment.
• Provide commercial support to large projects or programmes of work.
• Ensure robust estimates are provided that are aligned to scope and provide due allowance for all risks and opportunities.
• Manage commercial inputs to the procurement process, including ensuring that strategies are developed and agreed.
• Ensure contracts are properly managed in accordance with contract requirements, including compliance with responses to communications, payments, programme submissions, etc.
• Ensure robust cost management is undertaken at all times.
• Proactively manage project and programme risk, ensuring mitigation plans are in place and implemented.
• Develop strong client relationships across the organisation.
• Monitor that technical solutions meet technical standards, legal obligations, and client requirements.
• Use a systematic approach to critically examine the situation from different perspectives.
• Gather relevant information from different sources to reach a decision.
• Generate and weigh options to arrive at decisions.
• Weigh the risks and consequences of all options.
• Make well–reasoned, sound, and timely decisions based on the needs of the situation, the client, and the team member.
• Involve and consult those affected by the decision.
• Maintain and build on existing client relationships to anticipate needs.

• Chartered Surveyor, ideally MRICS, with a degree or equivalent in Quantity Surveying.
• Experience working with NEC Contracts and other target‑cost or cost‑reimbursable contracts.
• Experience delivering commercial and contractual elements of heavy infrastructure projects.
• Experience in Contract Management.
• Background working within a Consultancy or Main Contracting environment.
• Ability to prioritise and work under pressure.
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with clients and colleagues.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Ability to demonstrate a flexible approach to work.
• Technically and commercially aware and able to deliver on all post‑contract service delivery and solve problems.
• Proactive and self‑motivated.
• Strong commercial knowledge.
• Effective time management – efficient and adding value to projects.
• Customer focus – ability to engage in sound relationships with the customer project team.

• Knowledge and expertise in the water/wastewater industry sector.

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts.
• Wellbeing support through a comprehensive wellbeing programme, including for you and your family.
• Flexibility to allocate your salary to a wide range of health benefits, many extendable to family.

• Pension contributions match employee contributions between 4.5 % and 7 %.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 × your basic salary, with an option to increase to 6 ×.
• Income protection scheme, including entitlement and return‑to‑work support.
• Flexible benefits such as increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving, and will writing.
• Annual bonus schemes in line with business success.

• Minimum 33–35 days holiday per year, inclusive of public holidays; ability to buy or sell leave.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Employee saving schemes and discounts from retailers.

• 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave; two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Shared parental leave matches maternity leave up to 24…