About The Role
Balfour Beatty is on the lookout for a driven and detail-oriented
Assistant Quantity Surveyor to support our dynamic
Rail Plant team.
If you're passionate about construction, commercial excellence, and making a tangible impact on major infrastructure projects, this is your opportunity to grow with one of the UK's leading engineering companies!
What you'll be doing
As an Assistant Quantity Surveyor, you’ll play a key role in ensuring commercial and contractual control across exciting rail projects.
You’ll work closely with project managers and stakeholders to drive profitability, manage costs, and maintain strong relationships with subcontractors and clients.
Your Responsibilities Will Include
- Championing health, safety, and environmental standards across all activities.
- Supporting project profitability and cost forecasting.
- Managing contract cost reporting systems and tracking financial performance.
- Identifying and managing contract variations and ensuring timely client approvals.
- Assisting with subcontractor selection and tender processes.
- Maintaining accurate records to support claims and payments.
Who we're looking for
Essential
- A degree in construction, business, or a related field.
- Working towards or holding a professional qualification (e.g. RICS).
- Full UK driving licence.
- Strong IT skills and commercial awareness.
- Previous experience in the construction industry.
Desirable
- Experience in the build sector—especially education, accommodation, or commercial projects.
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.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key 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
Balfour Beatty works at the heart of the UK’s rail networks – designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth.
From feasibility studies, planning and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.
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. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at:
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