Senior Quantity Surveyor

Overview

Senior Cost Manager role within our North East team, focused on cost management across major infrastructure projects. You will work with transportation, utilities and highways clients to monitor costs, manage budgets, and drive value through governance and change control. The role offers training and progression toward senior responsibilities within a collaborative, client‑facing environment. You help shape project outcomes by delivering accurate forecasts, effective cost control, and proactive commercial support.

Responsibilities

• Establish client relationships and professional collaboration across project teams
• Administer contracts and align with project objectives and policies
• Provide accurate cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting to completion within budget
• Monitor cost variance and contract cash flow; ensure timely applications
• Collaborate with client and contractor teams to deliver KPIs, programme performance, cost control and value engineering
• Lead contract change management to stay within governance and best practice
• Improve forecast and budget accuracy
• Provide commercial knowledge to stakeholders; support negotiation of final accounts
• Lead people and commissions as needed

Key requirements

• Excellent communication
• Contract Management (NEC3, Option C preferred)
• Cost Management
• Change management and control
• Valuation
• Risk Management
• Procurement
• Estimating
• Pricing
• Reporting
• Collaborative approach and best-for-project attitude
• People management
• Commission management
• Identifying and driving efficiencies through the project life cycle
• Knowledge of procurement routes, value management and value engineering
• Ideally Degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant subject
• Ideally hold or be working towards professional body membership or equivalent

• communication
• collaborative approach
• people management
• NEC3 Contract Management (Option C)
• Cost Management
• Change management

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