Senior Quantity Surveyor

Senior Quantity Surveyor

Location: Peterborough / Norwich / Northampton

Hours: 45 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired

Sponsorship: We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

About the role

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll lead the commercial and cost management performance of our Planned Works Programme and Integrated Metering Alliance. You'll provide robust cost leadership from planning through to delivery and close-out, ensuring accurate forecasting, transparent reporting and strong commercial governance. This is a key leadership role where you'll embed commercial best practice across the alliance and support stakeholders to make informed, value-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

• Providing strategic cost management leadership, ensuring accurate cost forecasting, reporting and financial assurance

• Acting as the principal commercial advisor to delivery teams and stakeholders, supporting sound commercial decisions

• Leading cost planning, estimating, change control and final account settlement in line with NEC contracts

• Monitoring and managing commercial risk, implementing effective mitigation strategies and ensuring early escalation

• Driving efficiency initiatives, cost reduction opportunities and continuous improvement across commercial processes

Requirements

• A degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Construction or Finance

• Knowledge of NEC contracts and construction/commercial law

• Proven experience in a senior commercial, cost management or client-facing role within infrastructure or utilities

• A confident leader with strong stakeholder management and advisory skills

• Full driving licence

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

About us

If you would like to explore more about the incredible growth and scale of our water business, dive into our diverse project portfolios, and uncover both current and future career opportunities, you can see more information about our water business here.

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.