Senior Quantity Surveyor in Eastbourne

Balfour Beatty Living Places provides highways maintenance, street lighting, and public realm services across the UK, creating safe, sustainable environments where communities thrive. We have an opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our East Sussex contract, based from our Eastbourne office. You’ll play a key role in managing the commercial aspects of our local authority partnership, ensuring best value, compliance, and continuous improvement across a varied and dynamic portfolio of work.

What you’ll be doing:

• Support the Commercial and Finance Manager in delivering commercial strategy and performance.
• Manage the commercial lifecycle of assigned contracts, from cost forecasting and valuations to final accounts.
• Lead subcontract management, including procurement, administration, variations, and final settlements.
• Coach and support operational teams on commercial best practice and change management.
• Work closely with finance colleagues on monthly WIP valuations, accruals, and reporting.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and customer focus.
• Promote Balfour Beatty’s values of Integrity, Teamwork, Excellence and Respect in every interaction.

Who we’re looking for:

• Proven experience as a Quantity Surveyor in a highways or public realm environment.
• Strong working knowledge of NEC3/NEC4 forms of contract.
• Commercial acumen and the ability to deliver results in a collaborative team setting.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• Strong IT skills (Excel, Word, commercial systems).
• Ideally chartered (MRICS/MCInstCES) or working towards professional qualification.

Why join us?

• Be part of a business improving local communities through sustainable infrastructure.
• Access to industry‑leading learning, development, and chartership support.
• Competitive salary, company car/car allowance, and comprehensive benefits package.
• Hybrid and flexible working to support work‑life balance.

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. 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. 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.

Benefits:

• Smart working – up to 40% remote working where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
• Family‑friendly policies – 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 more.

Diversity and inclusion:

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. We are members of WISE, ENEI, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers, and in 2020 signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to Black Inclusion. 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.