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Position: Senior Quantity Surveyor
Location: Whitehaven - Blencathra House
Role: Full Time
Mitie are recruiting for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to play a critical role in ensuring the commercial and financial integrity of a major Facilities Management contract.
Sitting at the core of our operational delivery, you will be responsible for robust cost management, contract administration, and commercial governance across multiple service lines and workstreams.
Main Duties
Commercial Management & Contract Administration
1. Administer and interpret contracts (NEC, JCT, CCS, and bespoke FM agreements), ensuring compliance with all commercial and contractual requirements.
2. Manage the full change control process, including preparation, pricing, negotiation, and final agreement of variations.
3. Lead the application for payment process, ensuring accurate measurement, substantiation, and timely submission.
4. Support the development of cost plans and pricing models for new works and service adjustments.
Cost & Financial Governance
5. Produce accurate monthly CVRs, cost reports, forecasts, and margin analysis.
6. Identify variances, risks, and opportunities, proposing actions to protect or enhance financial performance.
7. Work closely with finance teams on budgeting, cash flow management, WIP control, accruals, and audit readiness.
8. Ensure robust cost control procedures are implemented and maintained across the contract.
Performance Monitoring & Reporting
9. Monitor commercial performance against KPIs, SLAs, and contract terms.
10. Provide clear and concise commercial reports for internal leadership and client teams.
11. Support preparation for client reviews, audits, and commercial governance boards.
Stakeholder Engagement
12. Act as a trusted commercial partner to operational managers, providing guidance, challenge, and commercial insight.
13. Build and maintain effective relationships with clients, subcontractors, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
14. Represent the commercial function in operational meetings, client forums, and negotiations.
What we are looking for
Essential Experience
Extensive experience as a Quantity Surveyor within facilities management, construction, or other regulated service environments.
Degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Business, Finance, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
Proven capability in administering CCS, NEC, JCT, or bespoke FM contracts.
Demonstrated experience managing large, complex, multi-site contracts.
Strong financial management skills, including forecasting, CVRs, cost control, and reporting.
Experience managing subcontractor accounts, variations, and final accounts.
Desirable Experience
Background within a major FM provider or service integration environment.
Knowledge of public sector procurement routes, government frameworks, and compliance requirements.
Commercially astute with excellent analytical and numerical skills.
Strong negotiation, problem-solving, and contract interpretation ability.
Confident communicator with excellent stakeholder engagement skills.
Highly organised, able to work under pressure, and capable of managing competing deadlines.
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Jessica Mercel at .