Overview
At Balfour Beatty, we don’t just build projects — we deliver the infrastructure that powers communities, businesses, and entire industries. Our Power Transmission & Distribution team is shaping some of the most complex and transformative projects in the UK energy sector.
A Managing Quantity Surveyor has significant experience in managing contracts and costs relating to infrastructure and civil engineering projects. They actively seek to minimise the costs of a project and enhance value for money, while still achieving the required standards and quality for our clients.
What you'll be doing
* Lead the commercial delivery of major power sector projects, ensuring profitability, sustainability, and client satisfaction.
* Drive commercial strategy, manage risk, and uphold governance across complex contracts.
* Coach and develop your team, setting high standards and fostering growth.
* Build trusted relationships with clients, stakeholders, and partners through transparency and delivery.
* Provide commercial input to value engineering reviews across various construction forms.
* Support tender reviews, including cost data and contract analysis.
* Prepare monthly CVRs and associated commercial reports.
* Report and explain commercial progress to senior project staff.
* Advise on client supply chain requirements and alternative procurement strategies.
* Coordinate buying, accounts, planning, supply chain, procurement, estimating, and surveying functions.
Who we're looking for
* Proven experience as a Managing QS or a Senior QS ready to step up, ideally within large-scale infrastructure, energy, or power projects.
* Strong professional QS skills and qualifications, with the ability to apply them in high-pressure environments.
* FIDIC contract experience is desirable but not essential.
* Results-driven mindset with a commitment to excellence.
* Chartered Member or Fellow of RICS, ICES, or CIOB, and a mentor to junior commercial staff.
* Strong alignment with Balfour Beatty’s values: Lean, Expert, Trusted, Safe.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.
About Us
Balfour Beatty's Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions. With experience and expertise across the full spectrum of the electricity grid our teams have capability across overhead lines, cable tunnels, distribution networks and substations. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support clients in the development of some of the world's most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
We are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. We have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan with targeted, proactive, measurable steps to make this a reality. We are Disability Confident and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists. Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
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