Senior Quantity Surveyor

Location: Warrington, GB, WA3 6YD. Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid.

Shape The Future of Nuclear Defence Through Expert Commercial Leadership. At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Quantity Surveyor at our Warrington, Cheshire site. Cavendish Nuclear is a trusted delivery partner across clean energy, defence and nuclear decommissioning. Our work underpins national security and long‑term energy resilience creating meaningful careers at the forefront of UK infrastructure.

The role: As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you’ll provide expert commercial leadership across major projects within our Nuclear Defence Support programme. This is a role where your impact is visible supporting complex, high‑value programmes that protect the UK and shape future nuclear capability. You’ll work closely with clients, suppliers, project teams and senior stakeholders to deliver value, manage risk, and drive commercial excellence from bid stage through to final account. It’s a career‑defining opportunity that offers challenge, responsibility, and the chance to grow your expertise on nationally significant programmes.

Key responsibilities:

• Providing commercial management and guidance across projects, supporting Quantity Surveyors and project teams
• Leading contract reviews, subcontract drafting and commercial governance activities
• Managing tender processes and commercial evaluations for complex equipment and service providers
• Overseeing post‑contract commercial performance, including change management and subcontractor claims
• Delivering final account settlements while protecting commercial and contractual interests

This role is full-time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with three days onsite and two days working from home.

Essential experience:

• Strong experience in commercial management within engineering, construction or infrastructure environments
• Proven expertise working with NEC3 contracts
• Experience supporting large‑scale, complex projects and contract delivery
• Ability to manage commercial risk and apply sound judgement in challenging environments
• Experience mentoring or supporting the development of junior colleagues

Qualifications:

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent) in Quantity Surveying or Building Services Quantity Surveying

Security Clearance: The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held.

Benefits:

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10‑days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading allows employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave from their entitlement (Open February through to March annually)
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.