Senior Quantity Surveyor

Senior Quantity Surveyor

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements Compensation: £62,500 + Benefits Role Type: Full time / Permanent Role ID: SF74623 Closing date: 19/08/2026

About the role

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll play a key role in delivering some of the UK's most complex and strategically important infrastructure and engineering programmes within Babcock's Naval Nuclear business. Working at the heart of the defence sector, you'll provide commercial leadership across major projects, helping to ensure successful delivery while protecting commercial interests, managing risk, and maximising value.

You'll collaborate with project teams, suppliers, and customers to support programmes that contribute directly to national security and critical public infrastructure. In return, you'll gain exposure to high-profile projects, develop your commercial expertise in a highly regulated environment, and build a long-term career with a global engineering organisation.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home.

Responsibilities

• Managing commercial activities across infrastructure and engineering projects throughout the contract lifecycle
• Supporting contract administration, commercial governance, and financial performance management
• Administering NEC3 and/or JCT contracts, including change management and compensation events
• Collaborating with project managers, suppliers, finance teams, and stakeholders to manage commercial risk and deliver project objectives
• Developing commercial strategies, monitoring costs, and contributing to successful project delivery outcomes

Essential experience

• Strong commercial management experience within engineering and/or construction environments
• Detailed knowledge and practical application of NEC3 and/or JCT contracts
• Experience supporting large, complex contracts, bids, and commercial strategies
• Strong understanding of cost control, change management, compensation events, and commercial risk management
• Proven ability to build effective relationships with stakeholders and supply chain partners to achieve project milestones

Essential qualifications

• Degree, or equivalent qualification, in Quantity Surveying or Building Services Quantity Surveying

Desirable qualifications

• Professional membership or working towards chartered status with a relevant professional body
• Additional commercial or contract management qualifications

Security clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement (annual window)
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

About Babcock

We're Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we're building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

Accessibility

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.