About the Role
Join our Power Commercial team as a Senior Quantity Surveyor, and you’ll play a key role in delivering complex, high‑value work that truly matters to our business. You’ll also contribute to some of the most significant infrastructure projects in the industry. Balfour Beatty Power is at the forefront of the UK’s transition to Net Zero. We’re reinforcing Scotland’s energy network to secure community connections and support the integration of new wind power. As we deliver this once‑in‑a‑generation energy transition, we have exciting opportunities across all commercial levels to help shape the future of the energy landscape. We welcome applicants from any industry with experience of working under NEC contracts. Direct experience in the power sector isn’t essential, you’ll build this through structured training, on‑the‑job learning, and ongoing professional support. If you’re commercially minded and ready to grow, we’ll equip you with everything you need to develop deep sector expertise and succeed in the role.
What You'll Be Doing
* Manage costs in relation to infrastructure projects with experience of identifying commercial risks and opportunities in respect of their works.
* Deliver varied commercial duties including responsibility for procuring and managing supply chain.
* Optimise commercial performance through diligent cost control and value for money opportunities, whilst achieving the required standards and quality for our customers.
* Create and maintain commercial relationships to both internal and external stakeholders.
* Contract administration with both client and subcontractors.
* Provide support and adherence for the Gated Business Lifecycle processes.
* Mentor and develop junior members of the team.
* Proactively drive career and personal development, including professional certification.
* Commercial management of a large infrastructure project or a portfolio of smaller projects.
Who We're Looking For
* You will have the following qualities/experience:
* BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or experience equivalent.
* Membership of RICS, ICES or CIOB (or working towards).
* Experience with key contracts such as NEC.
* Good communication skills.
* Great Teamwork / Role Mode.
* Leadership skills.
* Achievement Focus (Achieving Results).
* Business and Customer Awareness.
* Applies organisational aims & objectives.
* Identifies with the customer needs.
* Recognises opportunities & threats.
* Experience working on NEC 3 & 4 Contracts.
Why Work for Us
* Competitive Salary
* 37.5 hours Monday to Friday
* Company DC pension scheme up to 5% EEs & 7% ERs
* Company car
* Hybrid working
* 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
* Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications
* Employee assistance programmeUp to 2 days volunteering per year
About Us
Our skilled and dedicated teams deliver a range of proactive and reactive services which support a reliable and safe supply of power flowing to millions of homes and businesses around the world. Our contracts range from 50,000 schemes to 100 million plus major projects. 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.
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone.
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
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