Senior Quantity Surveyor in Birmingham

Balfour Beatty's Regional Civils business is seeking an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our team, based from our Birmingham office and supporting a diverse portfolio of civil engineering projects across the West Midlands. The portfolio includes projects at both PreConstruction and delivery stages, providing the opportunity to support schemes from their early commercial development and procurement through to live project delivery. Reporting directly to a Managing Quantity Surveyor, you will play a key role in driving the commercial success of multiple projects, providing expert commercial leadership and ensuring best practice is embedded across your portfolio.

This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially astute professional looking to make a significant impact within a growing region, working on a range of challenging infrastructure and civil engineering schemes across different stages of the project lifecycle. You'll be empowered to take ownership of project performance, build strong relationships with operational teams and clients, and contribute to the continued growth and success of Balfour Beatty's Regional Civils division.

• Taking commercial responsibility for a portfolio of civil engineering projects across the East and West Midlands, ensuring strong financial performance and successful project delivery.
• Leading, mentoring and developing Quantity Surveyors and junior team members, while providing commercial guidance to project teams and senior stakeholders.
• Supporting the development and implementation of commercial strategies that maximise project profitability and deliver target margins.
• Producing accurate cost forecasts, cost-to-complete assessments and monthly cost/value reports, ensuring robust financial control throughout the project lifecycle.
• Managing contract administration and change control processes, including valuation, negotiation and agreement of variations through CEMAR.
• Monitoring project budgets, cash flow and applications for payment, ensuring timely valuations and effective working capital management.
• Leading the subcontract procurement process, from tendering and contract award through to account management and final settlement.
• Maintaining accurate commercial records and supporting the preparation and management of claims, variations and insurance notifications where required.
• Collaborating closely with Project Managers, customers, subcontractors and internal teams to ensure commercial objectives are achieved and risks are effectively managed.
• Ensuring full compliance with Balfour Beatty's commercial procedures, Business Management System (BMS), Group Minimum Commercial Expectations and Health, Safety & Environment standards.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…