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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).
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