Pre-Contract Quantity Surveyor

  • SNG (Sovereign Network Group)
  • Basingstoke, Hampshire
  • 26/01/2026
Full time Construction

Job Description

Are you a qualified QS who is passionate about delivering exceptional value for money, reducing risk in construction projects, and ensuring high-quality outcomes for customers? We're looking for a proactive and commercially minded professional to join our Major Works Projects team and play a key role in shaping cost-effective, compliant, and customer-focused building solutions.

About the Role

In this vital position, you will act as a trusted client-side specialist, ensuring our construction, repairs, and maintenance projects meet statutory requirements, achieve high-quality standards, and deliver the best possible value.

You will also help maintain high-quality data within our asset management system (Keystone), ensuring transparency, accuracy, and strong compliance across your portfolio.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Deliver VfM appraisals and cost plans to support a £10m annual projects programme.
  • Act as the client, leading pre-contract cost estimates, feasibility studies, and statutory compliance checks.
  • Prepare elemental cost plans, BOQs, schedules of work, and tender documentation.
  • Manage procurement activities in partnership with internal teams and specialist consultants.
  • Analyse project risks, assess tender submissions, and support contract negotiation.
  • Provide commercial advice relating to contract terms, claims, and disputes.
  • Monitor and maintain accurate asset data in Keystone, ensuring compliance and transparency.
  • Support Project Managers to ensure live projects meet agreed scope, quality, and value objectives.
  • Manage stakeholder relationships and prepare detailed progress reports.
  • Be a visible, supportive, and knowledgeable presence within the team, championing best practice and professional standards.

About You

Essential:

  • Qualified Quantity Surveyor (RICS/CIOB).
  • Strong commercial awareness and analytical ability.
  • Experience in construction.
  • Knowledge of current building safety, compliance, and health & safety regulations.
  • Working knowledge of construction contracts and procurement processes.
  • Ability to assess data quality, identify issues, and manage impacts.

Desirable:

  • Understanding of data quality monitoring methods (e.g., data reconciliations).
  • Knowledge of data breaches and relevant standards for prevention and response.

What We Offer

  • The opportunity to shape high-impact projects that improve homes and communities.
  • A supportive and collaborative team culture.
  • Learning and development that grows your professional capability.
  • A workplace that values trust, transparency, wellbeing, and safety.

If you're commercially savvy, detail-driven, and ready to champion value for money in major construction projects, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today and help us deliver safe, high-quality homes for our customers.