Senior Quantity Surveyor
- RMS Recruitment
- Middlesborough
- Oct 28, 2025
Job Description
RMS is proud to be partnering with a well-established civil engineering and construction company to offer an exciting new career opportunity. This vacancy represents a fantastic chance to join a respected industry leader, known for delivering high-quality projects across the UK.
- Role: Senior Quantity Surveyor
- Location: Middlesborough
- Salary: Up to 70k per annum
- Overtime: Overtime is calculated at time plus a half Monday to Saturday. Sundays at Double time.
- Working Hours: Site hours are between 7am-7pm Monday to Friday. 47.5 hour per week.
About the Role:
This is a senior role, ideal for a confident and knowledgeable QS who thrives in a collaborative, delivery-focused environment.You will play a key part in supporting the commercial success of major contracts, working closely with project leadership and client representatives to manage cost, value, and change throughout the project lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage cost capture and produce accurate, timely applications for payment in line with client-specific requirements.
- Administer contracts effectively, including NEC (various options) and bespoke oil & gas agreements.
- Oversee change management processes, including variations, Early Warnings, and Compensation Events (or equivalents), ensuring contractual compliance.
- Collaborate with project leads and take an active role within the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) for the contract.
- Produce detailed weekly and monthly reports, end-out forecasting, and cost/value reconciliations for both internal stakeholders and the client.
- Lead and manage internal commercial meetings and ensure alignment across delivery and commercial teams.
- Support the wider business and regional contracts as needed, offering commercial expertise and consistency.
About You:
The ideal candidate will have:
- A degree in Quantity Surveying or equivalent qualification.
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in the construction or oil & gas sectors.
- Excellent working knowledge of Commercial and Contract Managent – NEC contract options & bespoke contracts.
- A strong understanding of cost control, Application Payments, forecasting, and variation management.
- Excellent IT skills with a particular focus on Microsoft Excel.
- The ability to engage confidently with clients, project teams, and senior stakeholders.
If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please apply via the link or contact us directly for more information: Jobs@rms-recruitment.co.uk / 01325 389333
RMS is an equal opportunities employer, if you have not been contacted within 7 days following your application, please accept this as you have not been successful on these occasions.
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Resource Management Solutions NE Ltd (RMS) is a long-established specialist in employment solutions.
Established in 2000, we are a private, family-owned and progressive business and a trusted partner of choice for employment solutions. We work with companies of varying size, in a wide range of industries, to provide national recruitment, payroll and HR managed services – all of which are tailored to meet a company’s individual requirements and to complement the entire employment cycle.
We are a people centric business and our continued success is undoubtedly down to our prime asset – our people – and through the development of a service that focuses on these assets we have seen our reputation and business go from strength to strength. Since RMS launched, we have expanded year on year and have grown from one office and five staff to a company with offices strategically located throughout the UK and a team of over 30 trained CIPD and REC specialists.
All of our clients benefit from close customer support, expert advice and guidance, as we act as an extension of their HR team or as their full employment solutions partner, helping to reduce their HR and administrative burden. Our services put the foundations in place for control and visibility of the recruitment & HR function. This adds structure to process and reporting tools to drive improved return on our client’s investment, whilst bringing recruitment & HR much closer to the strategic core of their business.
This unique approach allows us to work with many of the UK’s leading organisations, demonstrating a track record of quality and success which reflects ‘our people’, product and sustainability in an ever-evolving and competitive industry. We work closely with all our clients to strategically engage the next generation of workers by providing apprenticeship and skilled training opportunities in order to shorten the skills gap and satisfy labour demand.
It is these bespoke and truly innovative services that allow us to be at the forefront of industry requirements and provide our clients with services which encourage productivity allowing them to perform at their optimum levels and deal effectively with changes to their organisation and market sectors.
In short, we’ve put our industry knowledge and forward thinking into practice to continuously progress our services. Our partnerships originate from our excellent service with recommendation and reputation being pivotal to our continuing success and organic growth and with offices located throughout the UK, we are proud to be based within some of the most prestigious areas for industry growth.