Commercial Manager (Quantity Surveyor)
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Commercial Manager (Quantity Surveyor)
Technical Asset
- Vacancy type: Full-Time Permanent
- Closing date: 17/03/2026
- Salary: £55,000 - £60,000 depending on experience
About the Role
As a Commercial Manager, you will be responsible for the timely delivery of commercial management to support the delivery of projects within Edinburgh Airport Limited. You will be responsible for the delivery of initial budgets, options stage budget cost plans to support business decision-making and detailed construction cost plans, which will include benchmarking and a detailed risk analysis (cost).
Throughout the Edinburgh Airport tollgate process, you will support the project delivery team providing estimates and advice at each stage to maximise value from the project. You will also be responsible for preparing and co-ordinating tenders for projects. This will involve the preparation of the tender documents such as the bills of quantities and the coordination of appropriate drawings and specifications for tender issue and the final tender appraisal (in conjunction with the Development Manager/Project Manager).
You can find out more about the team here.
About the Recruitment Process
The recruitment process for this role will comprise of 2 stages. The first stage will be an interview with our Senior Commercial Manager and one of our Project Portfolio leads – this might be via Teams or in person. If successful, you will be invited to a second, in person interview which will involve our Senior Commercial Manager and our Head of Projects – this interview will be competency based, to discuss your skills motivations for applying for the role.
You can find out more about our interview process and the questions we ask here.
What you’ll be doing
- The delivery of timely commercial management to support project delivery
- Coordinate and provide supporting documentation to allow for business decision-making
- Development of budgets to support capital planning at each stage in the project lifecycle
- Assessment of outline scope in order to develop initial budgets for capital planning, providing a clearly auditable list of qualifications/assumptions to support budgets
What we’re looking for
- This role requires the successful candidate to obtain a Counter Terrorist Check, so you must have been living in the UK for the last 3 consecutive years
- Post holders are required to hold, as a minimum, a BSc Quantity Surveying
- Member of Royal Institute Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
- Minimum 5 years’ post MRICS experience within their discipline
If your experience looks slightly different to what we’ve listed here, we encourage you to still apply. You could add something we didn’t know we needed.
What we’ll offer you
- Pension scheme- employer contributions can be up to 7%
- 32 days holiday, based on full time roles, increasing with service
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Supporting your health and wellbeing- private healthcare after 1 years’ service, access to our Employee Assistance Programme and occupational health services
- Free car parking on site and when you go on holiday
- We offer a range of other benefits, find out more here
Why EDI?
We are Edinburgh Airport, where Scotland meets the world. The success of the airport comes down to our people, and you can help us deliver even more big days for our passengers and colleagues. The development of your career is important to us, and we’ll support and encourage this every step of the way. We offer in-house and external training, both role specific and based on your objectives.
As a business we’re driven by our values – they’re at the core of our culture and everything we do. We will ask questions based on our values during your interview, as we’re looking for people who will demonstrate these values day-in, day-out. So if this sounds like you, apply now and get ready for your career to take off.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring applicants with a disability can participate fully in our recruitment process. Please let us know in your application form if you require any adjustments, such as parking arrangements or alternative methods of communication.
We work with Inclusive Employers, who are a leading organisation for employers committed to prioritising inclusion. We are supported by them through leadership workshops, a variety of resources and webinars, demonstrating our commitment to an inclusive workplace and ensuring all our employees feel valued. This partnership is part of our wider Diversity and Inclusion strategy, and you can find out more here
We give colleagues the opportunity to engage with different people and projects, within our business and beyond. You can get involved in a variety of different employee groups, including Diversity, STEM, Wellbeing, or create your own community – it’s important to us that you can share your interests and be yourself at work.