Senior Quantity Surveyor (Groundworks)

  • SearchCo Ltd
  • Coventry, Warwickshire
  • 18/02/2026
Full time Construction

Job Description

The Business

A well-established, privately owned main contractor with a strong and growing presence across the Midlands. They deliver schemes across industrial & logistics, commercial, data centres, and retail - typically ranging from £10m to £100m+ in value.

This is a business with a healthy forward order book, a fantastic senior team, and a reputation for delivering quality work for repeat clients. They're expanding their civils capability and this is a newly created role as a result of that growth.

The Role

As Senior QS you'll take full commercial ownership of groundworks and civils packages from pre-construction through to final account. Day to day that includes:

  • Upfront commercial support to the estimating team including bill of quantities creation and supply chain engagement
  • Procurement and vetting of groundworks and civils subcontractors, including tender analysis and negotiation
  • Commercial management of specialist groundworks packages of significant value across live schemes
  • Valuations, variations, change management and cost reporting throughout the project lifecycle
  • Post-completion final accounts both live and historic packages
  • Liaising closely with site, project and pre-construction teams to manage risk, programme and cost
  • Building and maintaining relationships with the groundworks and civils supply chain
  • Supporting the wider commercial team on civils-related matters across the Midlands portfolio

The Package

  • Competitive basic salary DOE
  • Car allowance
  • Fuel card
  • Performance bonus
  • Private healthcare
  • Enhanced holiday
  • Pension

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