Overview
As Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will own the commercial performance of complex structural steel projects from award to final account. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to protect margins, manage contractual obligations, and ensure full entitlement. This role offers exposure to technically demanding projects across the UK and a clear path to leadership within a specialist construction business.
Pay / Benefits
- competitive salary package
- 25 days' holiday + Bank Holidays
- group personal pension scheme
- Medicash
- Life Assurance
- Employee assistance support
Responsibilities
- Manage the commercial performance of structural steelwork and construction projects
- Establish budgets, cost plans, and commercial controls
- Monitor performance and forecast final costs and margins
- Prepare CVRs, cost reports, and cash-flow forecasts
- Identify commercial risks and opportunities early
- Provide regular commercial reporting to senior management
- Collaborate with Project Managers and operations to meet commercial objectives
- Identify value engineering opportunities and cost savings
- Review contract documentation and ensure commercial obligations are met
- Protect company contractual position and entitlement
- Manage variations, claims, and extension of time
- Prepare, submit, and negotiate payment applications
- Review and agree client valuations
- Manage contractual correspondence and notices
- Identify and resolve potential disputes
- Support contract negotiations and assess risks on new projects
- Procurement & Subcontract Management duties including enquiries, quotations analysis, negotiations, ordering, and performance monitoring
- Maintain alignment of procurement decisions with budgets and programme
- Client & Final Account Management including developing contractor relationships, negotiating final accounts, and closing projects efficiently
Key requirements
- Proven commercial management experience on live UK construction projects
- Experience from contract award through final account
- Strong cost control, forecasting and commercial reporting
- Experience managing variations, valuations, payments, and final accounts
- Strong contract administration and negotiation skills
- Experience managing subcontractors and suppliers
- Excellent understanding of commercial risk and margin protection
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent attention to detail and organisational ability
- Strong Microsoft Office and Excel skills
- Structural steel experience would be advantageous
- Background with steelwork contractor, specialist subcontractor or major contractor would be relevant
- Solid understanding of UK construction contracts (advantageous: JCT, NEC, subcontract agreements, framework agreements)
- Degree/HNC/HND in relevant fields (or MRICS advantageous)
- Relevant industry experience considered with qualifications
- Strong communication
- Stakeholder-management
- Attention to detail
- Cost control and forecasting
- CVRs and cash-flow forecasting
- Valuations and payment applications
Senior Quantity Surveyor employer: Novax Recruitment
Join a well-established structural steel specialist in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, where your role as an Estimator will not only involve precise calculations but also foster meaningful client relationships. With over 75 years of industry experience, the company offers a supportive work culture, competitive salary, and benefits such as a health plan and a cycle to work scheme, all while providing ample opportunities for professional growth and involvement in diverse projects across the UK and Europe.
