Location: Home-based with regular travel to sites across the South Coast
Salary: Competitive base salary plus excellent company benefits
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 5:00pm, 40 hours per week
Job Type: Permanent
Sector: Utilities, Smart Metering, Streetworks, Infrastructure, Commercial, NEC Contracts
RecruitME is recruiting for a Quantity Surveyor – Utilities / Streetworks to support a major smart metering and boundary box replacement programme.
This is a home-based role with regular travel to sites across the South Coast, making it ideal for a commercially minded Quantity Surveyor, Utilities QS, Commercial Quantity Surveyor, Commercial Analyst, Commercial Officer or NEC Contracts professional with experience across utilities, infrastructure, smart metering, streetworks, excavation works, operational reporting or commercial assurance.
The role sits between Commercial, Operations, Planning, Streetworks, Finance and Programme teams, ensuring aborted installation jobs, excavation requirements, boundary box replacements and enabling works are correctly evidenced, commercially validated and managed in line with contract requirements.
What’s in it for you?
1. You’ll receive a competitive package including:
2. 25 personal holiday days plus 8 public holidays
3. Holiday allowance increasing to 30 personal days after 5 years’ service
4. Option to buy and sell holiday
5. Home-based / hybrid working options
6. Automatic enrolment into the Employee Participation Plan
7. Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
8. 24/7 confidential employee assistance service
9. Medicash health plan, including optical, dental and physio cashback
10. Discounted gym memberships
11. Free 24/7 online GP
12. Life insurance at 4x annual salary
13. Pension matching scheme up to 5%
14. Internal and external training, accredited courses, secondments and study support
The Role
As Quantity Surveyor – Utilities / Streetworks, you will be responsible for reviewing, validating and managing aborted or failed smart meter installation jobs that may require excavation, enabling works, boundary box replacements or Streetworks activity.
You’ll assess operational evidence including photos, surveys, operative notes and asset data to confirm whether dig works or follow-on works are genuinely required.
This is a commercially important role focused on reducing unnecessary costs, preventing unsupported dig claims, improving data quality and providing audit-ready commercial assurance across the programme.
Key Responsibilities
Review and validate aborted or failed smart meter installation jobs
Assess photos, surveys, operative notes and asset data
Confirm whether dig works, excavation, boundary box replacement or enabling works are genuinely required
Ensure abort reasons are accurately classified, evidenced and commercially supported
Ensure activity is managed in line with NEC4 TSC contract requirements and Scope obligations
Support payment validation, compensation event reviews, Pay Less support and dispute defence
Identify trends linked to operational, contractual or data quality issues
Produce dashboards and reports covering aborted jobs, dig volumes, defect trends, excavation requirements and financial exposure
Analyse repeat failures, operational inefficiencies and high-risk locations
Manage incidents and defects through systems such as MWorks, Power BI, Freshdesk or similar platforms
Track follow-on actions, permits, excavation requirements and remediation activity
Work closely with Commercial, Operations, Streetworks, Finance and Programme teams
Act as the link between operational field data and commercial decision-making
About You
We’re keen to speak with candidates who have experience in utilities, infrastructure, smart metering, streetworks, commercial reporting, operational data analysis or NEC contract environments.
You’ll ideally have:
Experience as a Quantity Surveyor, Assistant Quantity Surveyor, Commercial Quantity Surveyor, Commercial Analyst, Commercial Officer or Commercial Assurance professional
Experience in utilities, infrastructure, smart metering, telecoms, water, energy, streetworks or civil engineering
Experience working with NEC contracts or regulated environments, ideally NEC4 TSC
Experience managing operational and commercial datasets
Strong Power BI and reporting capability
Advanced Excel and Microsoft Office skills
Strong analytical and commercial judgement
Confidence challenging unsupported operational claims
Experience producing dashboards, trend reports or continuous improvement reporting
The ability to manage multiple priorities and work at pace
Strong communication skills and the ability to influence a wide range of stakeholders
A proactive, resilient and commercially aware approach
A relevant university degree would be beneficial, although equivalent commercial, utilities, infrastructure or operational experience will also be considered.
Why Apply?
This is an excellent opportunity to join a leading smart energy and utilities business in a role that combines quantity surveying, NEC contract awareness, commercial validation, operational data analysis and stakeholder management.
You’ll play a key role in supporting a major Boundary Box Replacement Programme, helping to validate excavation requirements, reduce unsupported claims, improve cost control and strengthen commercial assurance across the programme.
Apply Now
Apply now for this Quantity Surveyor – Utilities / Streetworks role, or contact RecruitME for a confidential conversation.
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