Senior Quantity Surveyor | Blyth

Senior Quantity Surveyor - CSA | Hyperscale Data Centre, Blyth UK

• A senior commercial position on a major hyperscale data centre development.
• A long-term pipeline of data centre and mission-critical projects throughout the UK.
• Career progression opportunities towards Commercial Manager or Project Commercial Manager.
• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
• Structured professional development and support towards chartership.
• Exposure to complex, high-value civil, structural and architectural packages.
• The opportunity to work with an experienced construction and commercial team.

Senior Quantity Surveyor Job Overview

A leading Tier 1 Contractor is seeking an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor with a strong CSA background to join the commercial team on a major hyperscale data centre development in Blyth, Northumberland.

The Senior CSA Quantity Surveyor will take commercial responsibility for a range of civil, structural and architectural packages. These may include earthworks, groundworks, drainage, reinforced concrete, structural steel, building envelope, roofing, internal finishes and external works.

Working closely with the Commercial Manager, Project Director, CSA construction team and specialist subcontractors, you will manage package procurement, cost control, valuations, change management and final accounts while protecting the contractor's commercial position.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor or CSA Quantity Surveyor looking to work on one of the UK's most significant mission-critical construction projects.

Key Responsibilities of the Senior Quantity Surveyor

CSA Commercial Management

• Take commercial ownership of designated civil, structural and architectural work packages.
• Manage packages from procurement and subcontract award through construction and final account.
• Develop a detailed understanding of each package scope, programme and contractual requirements.
• Provide commercial advice to the Commercial Manager, Project Director and CSA construction team.
• Ensure commercial activities comply with company procedures and project requirements.
• Monitor package performance against agreed budgets and commercial objectives.
• Identify commercial risks, opportunities and potential cost exposure.
• Protect the contractor's contractual and financial position throughout the project lifecycle.

Cost Control and Financial Reporting

• Establish and maintain budgets for allocated CSA work packages.
• Monitor committed costs, actual expenditure, accruals and forecast costs.
• Prepare monthly cost-value reconciliation reports.
• Develop accurate cost-to-complete forecasts for assigned packages.
• Analyse package performance against budget and explain commercial movements.
• Maintain cash-flow forecasts and support overall project financial reporting.
• Identify potential cost overruns and implement appropriate mitigation measures.
• Provide commercial updates for monthly project and senior management reviews.
• Maintain accurate commercial records and supporting documentation.

CSA Package Procurement

• Support or lead the procurement of civil, structural and architectural subcontract packages.
• Prepare tender documentation, scopes of work, bills of quantities and pricing schedules.
• Undertake measurements and quantity take-offs from drawings and BIM models.
• Issue tender enquiries and manage subcontractor clarifications.
• Complete detailed commercial comparisons and tender analysis.
• Identify qualifications, exclusions, scope gaps and commercial risks within subcontractor proposals.
• Participate in commercial negotiations and subcontractor interviews.
• Prepare subcontract award recommendations for management approval.
• Ensure subcontract agreements clearly define scope, programme, deliverables and commercial obligations.

Contract and Subcontract Administration

• Administer subcontract agreements in accordance with the relevant conditions of contract.
• Ensure contractual notices and commercial correspondence are issued within the required timescales.
• Maintain accurate records of instructions, notices, quotations and commercial agreements.
• Review subcontractor applications for payment and assess completed works.
• Prepare valuation recommendations, payment notices and pay-less notices where required.
• Manage retention, contra-charges, damages and other contractual deductions.
• Monitor subcontractor insurances, bonds, warranties and collateral warranties.
• Support the administration of NEC, JCT or bespoke construction contracts, as applicable.
• Maintain a clear commercial audit trail throughout the project.

Change and Variation Management

• Identify changes arising from design development, client instructions, RFIs and site conditions.
• Maintain accurate variation, compensation event and change-control registers.
• Prepare and submit quotations for instructed or anticipated changes.
• Assess subcontractor variation submissions and challenge costs where appropriate.
• Ensure changes are properly notified, substantiated, valued and recorded.
• Track the effect of variations against package budgets and project forecasts.
• Liaise with design, construction and planning teams to evaluate the impact of change.
• Negotiate variation values with subcontractors, consultants and client representatives.
• Ensure agreed changes are incorporated into valuations and financial reports.

Applications, Valuations and Payments

• Prepare accurate monthly valuations and applications for payment.
• Ensure applications are supported by appropriate measurements, records and substantiation.
• Agree package valuations with the client's commercial representatives.
• Review subcontractor payment applications against progress achieved on site.
• Conduct site measurements and verify completed works.
• Ensure all completed and approved works are captured within monthly applications.
• Monitor payment cycles and help resolve disputed or delayed valuations.
• Maintain accurate records of certified amounts, payments and outstanding balances.
• Support effective project cash-flow management.

Claims and Commercial Risk

• Identify potential contractual entitlement relating to delay, disruption and scope change.
• Maintain contemporaneous records to support commercial claims and contractual positions.
• Assist with preparing and reviewing loss and expense, disruption and prolongation assessments.
• Coordinate with planning teams to assess the programme and cost impact of delays.
• Review subcontractor claims and prepare appropriate commercial responses.
• Identify risks relating to design information, procurement, access and construction sequencing.
• Maintain package-level risk and opportunity registers.
• Develop mitigation measures in coordination with the wider project team.
• Escalate significant commercial risks to the Commercial Manager.

CSA Package Expertise

• Manage commercial activities relating to earthworks, enabling works and ground improvement.
• Support the procurement and cost management of foundations and reinforced concrete structures.
• Manage structural steelwork and associated fire-protection packages.
• Oversee the commercial administration of roofing, cladding and building-envelope works.
• Manage internal architectural packages, partitions, ceilings, doors and finishes.
• Support drainage, utilities, roads, paving, landscaping and external works packages.
• Understand interfaces between CSA, mechanical and electrical packages.
• Assist the project team in identifying scope gaps between subcontract packages.
• Support value engineering and buildability reviews from a commercial perspective.

Project and Stakeholder Coordination

• Work closely with the Commercial Manager, Project Director and CSA construction management team.
• Attend commercial, procurement, design and package review meetings.
• Liaise with clients, consultants, subcontractors and supply-chain partners.
• Collaborate with design teams to understand the commercial impact of design development.
• Coordinate with planning teams regarding progress, delay and recovery programmes.
• Provide commercial input into project risk and opportunity reviews.
• Build effective relationships while protecting the contractor's commercial interests.
• Communicate commercial issues clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Team Development

• Provide guidance and support to Quantity Surveyors, Assistant Quantity Surveyors and commercial administrators.
• Review junior team members' valuations, measurements and commercial reports.
• Allocate tasks and monitor the completion of package commercial activities.
• Promote consistent use of company systems and commercial procedures.
• Support the technical and professional development of junior colleagues.
• Share commercial knowledge and lessons learned across the project.
• Contribute to a collaborative and accountable commercial team culture.

Final Accounts and Project Close-Out

• Manage subcontractor accounts through to commercial close-out.
• Negotiate and agree subcontractor final accounts.
• Ensure all variations, claims, contra-charges and outstanding liabilities are resolved.
• Support the preparation and agreement of the main contract final account.
• Monitor the release of retention in accordance with contractual requirements.
• Ensure warranties, bonds and contractual close-out documents are received.
• Prepare package close-out reports and reconcile final costs against budget.
• Capture commercial lessons learned for future projects.

Essential Qualifications and Experience of the Senior Quantity Surveyor

• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Construction Economics or a related discipline.
• Minimum five years' quantity surveying experience within the construction or engineering sector.
• Strong commercial experience managing civil, structural or architectural work packages.
• Experience in package procurement, subcontract administration and cost control.
• Ability to prepare measurements, bills of quantities, tender documentation and commercial comparisons.
• Experience preparing valuations, forecasts, cost-value reconciliations and cost-to-complete reports.
• Strong understanding of change control, variations, claims and final accounts.
• Working knowledge of NEC, JCT or bespoke construction contracts.
• Good technical understanding of CSA construction processes and package interfaces.
• Strong negotiation, analytical and financial management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
• Competence using Microsoft Excel and commercial reporting systems.
• Ability to manage multiple packages, deadlines and commercial priorities.
• Willingness to work in a site-based environment in Blyth.
• Eligibility to work in the United Kingdom.

Desirable Experience

• Previous experience working on hyperscale data centres, mission-critical facilities or large-scale technology projects.
• Experience managing high-value CSA packages for a Tier 1 Contractor.
• Strong knowledge of reinforced concrete, structural steel, roofing, cladding and architectural packages.
• Experience managing groundworks, drainage, utilities and external works.
• Chartered status or progression towards membership of RICS or CICES.
• Experience using CostX, Bluebeam, Autodesk Construction Cloud or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with BIM-based quantity take-offs and digital measurement.
• Experience managing delay, disruption or loss and expense claims.
• Previous experience mentoring junior commercial team members.
• Experience delivering projects from pre-construction through final account.