Details:
- Salary: £53,000 - 75,000 - Annum
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: Cambridge Cambridgeshire
- Date: 19 minutes ago
Description:
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading civil engineering and infrastructure specialist delivering some of the UK’s most significant water infrastructure projects.
As the industry enters a period of unprecedented investment, our client is expanding its commercial teams to support a major programme of works focused on innovation, sustainability, and building a better environment for future generations.
As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will act as the commercial conscience of the delivery team, providing expert cost and commercial support across a range of complex civil engineering projects. Working closely with project managers, site teams, and key stakeholders, you’ll play a vital role in controlling costs, maximising value, managing risk, and ensuring projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and successfully.
This role offers the opportunity to work on challenging, high-profile infrastructure schemes while developing your career within a collaborative and forward-thinking commercial environment.
Key Responsibilities
* Manage all aspects of commercial and cost management across allocated projects or programmes of work
* Lead robust cost control processes, ensuring accurate reporting, forecasting, and commercial analysis
* Provide commercial insight to support key project decisions and drive successful outcomes
* Ensure project teams understand contractual obligations and commercial requirements
* Work collaboratively with delivery teams to identify and implement efficiency improvements
* Monitor project performance, manage risk, and support value improvement initiatives
* Maintain accurate records, including project accounts and final accounts, ensuring audit and assurance requirements are met
* Support compliance with internal governance, contractual obligations, and client requirements
About You
We’re looking for an experienced and commercially driven Senior Quantity Surveyor who thrives in a collaborative project environment and enjoys making a tangible impact on delivery.
Essential:
* Extensive experience managing costs within construction, civil engineering, or infrastructure projects
* Strong commercial awareness with the ability to analyse data, identify opportunities, and manage risk
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
* Ability to work collaboratively with project delivery teams and senior stakeholders
Desirable:
* Degree (or equivalent) in Quantity Surveying, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline
* Experience working within infrastructure, utilities, or major projects
* Membership of a professional body or working towards professional accreditation
What’s on Offer
* Competitive salary package
* Company pension and life assurance
* Private medical cover
* 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays and loyalty days
* Flexible benefits through salary sacrifice
* Employee Assistance Programme supporting mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
* Leadership development, coaching, and structured career progression
* Internal and external training opportunities
* Continuous service recognition awards
* Opportunities to work on some of the UK’s most important infrastructure projects
Join a team where your commercial expertise will help shape major projects, improve communities, and contribute to a more sustainable future