Job Title: Quantity Surveyor
Location: BB Stanton Close Depot, Wellingborough (Northampton) – 3 days per week onsite
Company: Balfour Beatty – Living Places
Project: Northants LP & Street Lighting
About The Role
Balfour Beatty Living Places is recruiting a Quantity Surveyor to support the Northants Local Partnership business, with a commercial focus on the Northamptonshire Street Lighting contract – a long‑term 25‑year agreement.
This role blends commercial leadership, rigorous cost management, and stakeholder engagement while supporting essential infrastructure services that keep Northamptonshire’s roads safe, illuminated, and maintained.
You will be based at the Stanton Close Wellingborough depot three days per week, working closely with operational teams across Northamptonshire and supporting both planned and reactive street lighting programmes.
Commercial Context of the Northants Street Lighting Contract
Cost Control & Value Management
* Managing a large, continuously operating street lighting asset base under a long‑term maintenance model.
* Delivering value through efficient cost planning, accurate measurement, and proactive commercial forecasting.
* Supporting both routine maintenance and emergency repairs – including making safe “door off” or live‑column incidents that require a 2‑hour emergency response.
Planned & Reactive Maintenance Commercial Oversight
* Supporting the commercial cycle relating to day patrols, inspections, and defect management – a core part of the contract’s compliance.
* Ensuring cost capture for emergency, reactive, and planned works is accurate, timely, and contractually aligned.
* Mitigating cost inefficiencies by supporting improvements such as upskilling operatives, which has already reduced downtime across the Northants contract.
Programme Commercial Support
* Working with operational managers to align commercial planning with street‑lighting work programmes.
* Supporting modernised methods of planning and mapping (e.g., visualised planning of traffic management requirements) that reduce aborted works and improve cost certainty.
Contractual Compliance
* Ensuring commercial compliance with the PFI contract, including reporting, audit trails, and performance‑related requirements linked to asset safety and response times.
Key Responsibilities
Commercial Management
* Measure, record, value, and reconcile works in accordance with contract rules.
* Prepare accurate monthly valuations, applications for payment, and final accounts.
* Manage CVRs and provide commercial commentary on cost, value, risk, and opportunities.
* Support risk analysis and implement strategies to minimise commercial exposure.
Cost & Programme Support
* Analyse cost/value data for planned and reactive street lighting works.
* Support the commercial lifecycle of emergency call‑outs and high‑priority safety defects.
* Work closely with delivery teams to ensure all works are commercially compliant with the PFI contract.
Procurement & Supply Chain
* Produce BOQs, schedules of rates, and tender documentation.
* Support procurement of subcontractors, ensuring value for money and adherence to safety and quality standards.
Stakeholder Engagement
* Build effective working relationships with operational leads, supervisors, local authority clients, and street lighting engineers.
* Provide commercial insight and training to operational colleagues when required.
About You
* BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying (or equivalent experience).
* Experience in street lighting, electrical infrastructure, highways, or term maintenance contracts (strong advantage).
* Knowledge of NEC or ICC forms of contract.
* Strong commercial reporting and analytical skills.
* Ability to work independently while contributing to a wider commercial team.
* Commitment to achieving or progressing toward RICS / ICES / CIOB membership.
Why This Role Matters
* The Northants Street Lighting contract is a cornerstone of Living Places’ portfolio, consistently recognised for strong team performance and safety achievements, including extended periods without LTIs.
* As a Quantity Surveyor on this contract, you play a pivotal role in ensuring the financial integrity, operational efficiency, and long‑term sustainability of critical public‑realm infrastructure.
Professional and Personal Development
We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.
We have a 70:20:10 approach to development: 70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.
Benefits
* Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
* 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
* Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partner leave.
* Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and more.
Diversity and Inclusion
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 also offer applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
We are committed to providing an inclusive workplace and encouraging applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists. We encourage applicants of all backgrounds to apply and comply with the Equality Act 2010.
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