Senior Quantity Surveyor

Senior Quantity Surveyor Major UK Infrastructure Programme

A leading commercial consultancy requires a Senior Quantity Surveyor to deliver commercial leadership on a Tier 1 main contractor's high-value infrastructure programme. This strategic site-based role in West Ruislip offers direct influence over contractual outcomes, cost performance, and commercial strategy within a complex civil engineering environment. Immediate requirement to replace existing resource.

Role Overview
The successful Senior Quantity Surveyor will assume full commercial ownership of allocated post-contract work packages, ensuring robust financial control and contractual compliance. This is a senior appointment involving the direct line management and mentorship of two Quantity Surveyors and lots of client and stakeholder engagement. Focus is on high-fidelity cost reporting, aggressive cost avoidance, and definitive final account settlement.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead all post-contract commercial management across defined work packages.
• Provide leadership to the commercial team, ensuring consistent governance and contractual application.
• Manage the full lifecycle of change control, compensation event valuation, entitlement assessments, and prolongation claims under the NEC form of contract.
• Drive and conclude final account agreements, scrutinizing and auditing cost legitimacy across the supply chain.
• Own the cost control function, producing high-accuracy cost reports and reliable cost-to-complete forecasts.
• Implement proactive cost avoidance strategies through engagement with contractor commercial teams, methodology reviews, and design proposal assessment.
• Monitor and control sub-contractor and supplier commercial performance.

Essential Requirements

• Extensive experience managing high-value, complex commercial matters on major civil engineering projects.
• Proven ability to manage post-contract obligations, including claims and final accounts, specifically under the NEC contract suite.
• Demonstrable track record of leading commercial teams and influencing project-level cost strategy.
• Expert analytical capability in cost reporting, forecasting, and claims evaluation.
• Full understanding of project costs to manage reporting effectively.

Desirable Attributes

• Prior experience in a commercial role directly for a Tier 1 civil engineering contractor.
• Experience in a consultancy capacity, providing client-side commercial assurance.

The successful Senior Quantity Surveyor can expect a rewarding career that includes exposure to an exciting, high profile project, an excellent work life balance and a generous salary & package that includes:

• Starting salary of 75,000 to 82,000
• Travel allowance
• 25 days leave + bank holidays
• Private pension contributions
• Private healthcare
• Paid professional fees

This is an immediate, business-critical appointment. Suitable candidates with the required NEC and civil engineering experience should contact Matt Clegg at Gold Group for a confidential discussion on (phone number removed).

Services advertised by Gold Group are those of an Agency and/or an Employment Business.
We will contact you within the next 14 days if you are selected for interview. For a copy of our privacy policy please visit our website.