Quantity Surveyor in Lowestoft

About The Role

At Balfour Beatty, we don’t just deliver projects—we shape communities, connect people, and create infrastructure that stands the test of time. We are looking for a talented and driven Quantity Surveyor to join our team, bringing expertise, innovation, and a passion for excellence to some of the UK’s most exciting construction and infrastructure projects. This is an opportunity to be part of a collaborative environment where your skills will directly influence project success, cost efficiency, and long-term value. If you’re ready to take on challenging projects, work alongside industry leaders, and grow your career with a company that invests in its people, Balfour Beatty is the place for you.

What you’ll be doing:

• Ensure all duties are carried out in accordance with standard company HSE procedures and work instructions.
• Commercial management of various civil engineering subcontract packages.
• Contribute to the management and maintenance of a contract cost reporting system, ensuring all financial information is managed and up-to-date and tracked with budget/tender allowances, commitments and deviations highlighted and managed.
• With other members of the team, produce and provide accurate forecasts of project cost to completion and final value.
• Continually monitor projected costs to completion in line with budget.
• Ensure that necessary interface information between customer, subcontractors and other departments is provided in a timely manner.
• Pro-actively monitor cash flow and valuation plan, ensuring applications are made correctly and in a timely manner.
• Ensure contract variations are identified, valued and turned into agreed variation orders with the customer in a timely manner.
• Assist in ensuring effective records are maintained to support claims and that applications for payment for variations are issued in a timely manner.
• Manage the subcontract tender process, including the selection of sub-contractors and provision of all relevant contract and schedule documentation.
• Ensure that subcontracts are placed in an appropriate manner to step down appropriate responsibilities from the Main Contract.
• Ensure that each sub-contractor’s account is managed strictly in accordance with their terms and conditions.
• Ensure that any insurance claims are notified in accordance with CSUK requirements and that appropriate data is compiled for insurance claims.
• Take an active role in assisting the Project Management team member(s) in arranging and undertaking project reviews and issue of associated reports.
• Provide accurate monthly reporting of cost and value on the project(s) in line with the Company’s reporting process.
• Be responsible for the preparation and agreement of final accounts.
• Agree and resolve final accounts with sub-contractors.
• Ensure compliance with BMS and Group Minimum Commercial Expectations.
• Where appropriate and where used on the specified project, utilise BIM to support progress monitoring, provide commercial reporting and incorporate information to support change management, variations orders and encourage all sub-contractors/ supply chain members to integrate their work into BIM.
• Live the Balfour Beatty Values.
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm.
• Support the delivery of CSUK’s Sustainability activities.

Who we’re looking for:

• BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or experience equivalent.

• Communication.
• Teamwork.
• Achievement Focus (Achieving Results).
• Previous Commercial Work experience.
• Industry knowledge.

Why work for us:

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
• Family friendly policies which include 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 much more…

About Us:

With a strong track record of delivery, our civils teams connect communities through infrastructure projects in the highways, public realm, rail, flood and coastal defence, and industrial sectors across England and Wales.

Diversity and Inclusion:

At Balfour Beatty 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, regardless of their identity or background.

Disability Confident Employer:

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.