Senior Quantity Surveyor

About The Role

Do you want to be at the forefront of one of the world’s most ambitious sustainability initiatives? Balfour Beatty has created iconic buildings and infrastructure worldwide, redefining excellence and setting industry benchmarks. Our partner, BP, has selected us to construct a first-of-a-kind fully integrated gas‑fired power station with carbon capture and storage, a key component of plans to make Teesside the UK’s first decarbonised industrial cluster.

Balfour Beatty is seeking a dynamic Senior Quantity Surveyor to contribute to the Net Zero Teesside (NZT) project based at our site in Redcar and Cleveland.

• Ensure commercial and contractual control and coordination of the efforts of all parties involved in the execution of a specified project or range of projects.
• Provide guidance to other members of the Commercial/Quantity Surveying team and Project Directors/Managers on all aspects relating to commercial activity.
• Ensure all duties are carried out in accordance with standard company HSE procedures and work instructions.
• Accountable for the activities of any directly reporting quantity surveying staff, mentoring junior members of the team and providing advice and guidance to other members of the team and to Project Directors/Managers, as required.
• Be accountable for the profitability of the project(s) and develop an appropriate commercial strategy to achieve required margins.
• Contribute to the management and maintenance of a contract cost reporting system, ensuring all financial information is managed, updated and tracked against budget/tender allowances, commitments and deviations.
• Produce and provide accurate forecasts of project cost to completion and final value.
• Continually monitor projected costs to completion in line with budget.
• Ensure that necessary interface information between customer, subcontractors and other departments is provided promptly.
• Pro‑actively monitor cash flow and valuation plan, ensuring applications are made correctly and in a timely manner.
• Identify, value and turn contract variations into agreed variation orders with the customer promptly.
• Maintain effective records to support claims and issue applications for payment for variations in a timely manner.
• Manage the subcontract tender process, including selection of sub‑contractors and provision of all relevant contract and schedule documentation.
• Ensure that subcontracts are placed appropriately to step down responsibilities from the main contract.
• Manage each sub‑contractor’s account strictly in accordance with their terms and conditions.
• Notify insurance claims in accordance with CSUK requirements and compile appropriate data for insurance claims.
• Assist Project Management in arranging and undertaking project reviews and issuing associated reports.
• Provide accurate monthly reporting of cost and value in line with the Company’s reporting process and prepare final accounts.
• Agree and resolve final accounts with sub‑contractors.
• Ensure compliance with BMS and Group Minimum Commercial Expectations.
• Where appropriate, utilise BIM to support progress monitoring, provide commercial reporting and incorporate information to support change management, variations and encourage integration into BIM.
• Live the Balfour Beatty Values.
• Maintain a relentless focus on Zero Harm.
• Support the delivery of CSUK’s Sustainability activities.

Substantial previous experience in Quantity Surveying within a relevant business environment and a valid CSCS card are required. Membership of a relevant professional body such as RICS, CIOB, RIBA, ICE or CIBSE is desirable.

• Sound working knowledge of construction and contract law and various forms of Conditions of Contract.
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of tendering and procurement processes.
• Significant knowledge of construction techniques on particular projects.
• Ability to apply commercial management principles to construction projects.
• Working knowledge of basic plant, equipment and materials.
• Understanding of sub‑contracting principles and ability to draft and administer sub contracts.
• Ability to implement procedures to quantify and cost construction works,…