About The Role
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
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.
What You’ll Be Doing
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.
Who We’re Looking For
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
The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.
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’re proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it’s sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10* approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.
* 70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.
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Why Work for Us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
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/partners leave
* Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About Us
Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long‑term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.
Diversity and Inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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