Location: Whitehaven, UK
Contract type: Permanent. Work pattern: Full Time.
Market: Defence and security. Discipline: Cost and quantity surveying. Job ref: 14075.
Overview of the Role
Owing to the organic expansion of our Defence portfolio we have a unique opportunity for Quantity Surveyors to join our fast-growing teams in Scotland. This role will be involved in some of the most complex and challenging projects in the UK. The Quantity Surveyor will support the successful delivery of client projects with a focus on effective cost management, NEC contract administration, and commercial leadership. The role requires delivering value, managing risk, building stakeholder relationships, and championing commercial best practice through the project lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
* Manage and administer NEC4 contracts according to project and governance requirements.
* Control and implement contract variations efficiently, ensuring timely and compliant agreement.
* Maintain accurate cost control, monitoring and forecasting.
* Continuously improve the quality and reliability of cost forecasts and budgets.
* Work collaboratively with client and contractor teams to achieve project objectives, KPIs and value outcomes.
Candidate Specification
Essential
* Degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline.
* NEC ECC accreditation and practical experience administering NEC4 ECC contracts.
* Hold, or be working towards, membership of an appropriate professional body or equivalent such as MRICS.
* Experience working on technically complex infrastructure projects within a highly regulated industry.
* Experience managing contract cash flow, contract governance and change.
* Demonstrable experience administering contracts using CEMAR.
* Proven experience in cost control and estimating.
* Competent in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, Teams, Access and PowerPoint.
* Practical, hands‑on experience administering NEC4 ECC and/or PSC contracts.
Desirable
* Demonstrable experience administering contracts using ThinkProject Contracts.
NEC4 Project Manager Accreditation.
Offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.
Benefits
Financial Wellbeing
* We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
* Life assurance equal up to 4 × your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 × your salary.
* Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long‑term illness or injury.
* Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
* As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
Employee Ownership
* Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us.
* Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through personal and group performance bonuses.
* As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long‑term impact and contribution.
* Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels.
* For senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.
Health and Wellbeing
* Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
* Health cash plan to support you with everyday health costs and treatments.
* Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
* A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing programme, including access for you and your family.
* Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family.
Lifestyle
* Minimum of 33‑35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
* Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years of service.
* Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high‑street retailers.
Enhanced Family and Carers Leave
* 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
* Shared parental leave matches maternity leave; we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
* Up to five additional days leave for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
Learning and Development
* Primary annual professional institution subscription.
* Opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self‑development options.
Networks, Communities, and Social Outcomes
* Wide range of employee networks that support LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
* Opportunity to make a difference within our communities through social outcomes.
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