Senior Quantity Surveyor

Senior Quantity Surveyor

Location: Salford

Hours: 42 per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired

About the role

You'll be joining the Rail & Aviation team, working on some of the UK's most important transport infrastructure projects. The team delivers a wide range of complex projects, including the £54m remodelling of Manchester Airport railway station. You'll have the opportunity to apply your expertise across varied and challenging projects that help keep people and communities connected.

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll work within the Rail and Aviation team, supporting them in delivering commercial excellence across infrastructure projects. You'll take responsibility for the quantity surveying function on allocated projects, providing robust commercial control, maximising sustainable value, and managing risk to support project profitability. You'll work within a supportive commercial governance framework and play a key part in delivering successful outcomes for our clients.

Responsibilities

• Take commercial responsibility for allocated projects, maintaining effective relationships with project teams, clients and supply-chain partners

• Manage subcontract accounts from procurement through to final account, ensuring fair and commercially robust outcomes

• Prepare and submit client applications for payment, monitoring certification and supporting timely agreement of final accounts

• Prepare monthly reports, forecasts and KPIs, clearly explaining movements and emerging issues to support decision-making

• Proactively manage commercial risks and opportunities, working closely with operational colleagues to ensure project decisions are well-informed and governed

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience as a Quantity Surveyor on construction, infrastructure or rail projects, ideally within a main contractor environment

• Strong working knowledge of construction contract conditions, including NEC contracts and the management of compensation events and commercial risk

• Practical experience managing subcontract accounts independently and preparing client applications for payment

• Strong commercial judgement with the ability to identify risk, challenge assumptions and work collaboratively across teams

• Degree or equivalent qualification in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management or a related discipline

Important notes

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

Benefits and workplace

We offer a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

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