Full Life Cycle Quantity Surveyors – Pre and Post Contract in Manchester

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description: Arcadis is working across major capital investment programmes across Northern England (multi‑million and multi‑billion £ schemes), across the infrastructure, transportation and buildings sectors. We work with a variety of clients, collaborating across the supply chain to ensure our client’s programmes are delivered effectively, efficiently and their requirements are met.

Role accountabilities:

• Hold client facing delivery roles working directly with our key customers for major projects within the infrastructure and transportation sectors, bringing best practice cost and commercial solutions to delight our clients.
• Bring cost and commercial management expertise to our major projects, integrating multidisciplinary teams to provide integrated and value‑adding commercial solutions for our clients.
• Act as an ambassador for Arcadis’ digital controls solutions, bringing in our talented teams in data science and data analytics to provide transformative and efficient digital cost control solutions to our clients.
• Be an active member within Arcadis’ Global Cost & Commercial community, supporting the growth and development of yourself, our people, and those within our clients, partners and wider industry bodies.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Quantity surveying professional who has worked in roles across a variety of projects within the infrastructure, transportation, energy and/or buildings sectors.
• Well‑rounded professionals with experience/qualifications across cost estimation / cost planning, tendering and procurement, contracts (mainly NEC, ideally NEC4 accredited), post contract cost control, whole life costing and carbon quantification and reporting.
• Candidates need a solid understanding across all these areas and a passion for learning, growth and agility.
• Experience working across the supply chain, including perspectives from client‑side, consultant, contractor and designers would be a strong advantage.
• Experience spanning through all stages of the project/programme life cycle, from mobilisation, set‑up, delivery, handover and benefits realisation across a variety of projects.
• A degree or diploma in Quantity Surveying or related field.
• A professional accreditation such as MRICS, MICES or equivalent.
• Qualifications & experience as NEC4 Practitioners are desirable.

Why Arcadis? We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills‑based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximise the impact we can make together. You’ll do meaningful work and help deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. We take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.