Senior Quantity Surveyor

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

1/28/2025

Recruiter contact: Sacha Kelly

Mott MacDonald

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.

Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

As our Environment and Water portfolio continues to grow, we are seeking a dedicated Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our team. The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong enthusiasm for partnering with our clients to ensure their complex projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest standards of quality and safety. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on significant infrastructure projects throughout the UK.

What you will contribute to the team; 

• Support Water Companies in delivering large capital programmes, providing an essential service, and improving the environment.
• Provide commercial support to a large project or programme of works  
• Ensuring robust estimates are provided that are aligned to scope and makes due allowance for all risks and opportunities
• Managing commercial inputs to the procurement process including ensuring that strategies are developed and agreed.
• Contracts are properly managed in accordance with contract requirements including compliance with all responses to communications, payments, programme submissions etc
• Ensuring robust cost management is undertaken at all times.
• Proactive management of project and programme risk including ensuring that mitigation plans are in place and implemented.
• Development of strong client relationships across its organisation
• Monitor that technical solutions meet with technical standards, legal obligations, and client requirements.
• Use a systematic approach to critically examine the situation from different perspective.
• Gather relevant information from different sources in reaching a decision.
• Generate and weigh the different options in arriving at decisions.
• Weigh the risks and consequences of all options.
• Make well-reasoned, sound and timely decisions based on the needs of the situation, the clients and the team member
• Involve and consult those affected by the decision.
• Maintain and build on existing client relationships to anticipate needs. 
  
  

Required For Position Of Senior Quantity Surveyor

• Chartered Surveyor, ideally MRICS, with a degree or equivalent in Quantity Surveying
• Experience working with NEC Contracts and other target cost, or cost reimbursable contracts
• Experienced in delivering commercial and contractual elements of heavy infrastructure projects.
• Experienced in Contract Management
• Demonstrated background working within Consultancy or Main Contracting environment
• Ability to prioritise and able to work under pressure.
• Effective time management - efficient and adding value to projects
• Customer focus - ability to engage in sound relationships with the customer project team
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with clients and colleagues.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Ability to demonstrate a flexible approach to work
• Technically and commercially aware able to deliver on all post contract service delivery and to solve problems
• Proactive and self motivated
• Strong commercial knowledge
• Willing to travel to client site, with potential over night stays
  
  

Preferred, But Not Essential.

• A knowledge and expertise in the water/wastewater industry sector
  
  

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

 

About The Business Unit 

Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors. 

We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world-leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services.

APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management. 

Environment & water

Our multidisciplinary experts help water, wastewater, and government organisations find sustainable, cost-effective solutions to the challenges of climate change, net-zero, water scarcity and environmental protection. 

We work with around half of the UK’s regulated water and wastewater companies, and our work stretches across the entire project lifecycle - from pre-contract cost estimating and benchmarking, to post-contract quantity surveying and commercial assurance. 

For project and programme management, we deliver capital projects on behalf of our clients, both internal and external that range from several hundred thousand pounds in value to major projects and programmes worth over £0.5bn. 

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We Offer Some Fantastic Benefits Including

• Pension matched up to 7%  
• Life insurance 
• An annual professional institution subscription  
• Continuous development opportunities – because we want you to thrive 
• Agile/flexible working – because life isn’t 9-5 
• Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies – for parents and care givers 
• Annual bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits that suit you, including ability to buy/sell annual leave entitlement, cycle to work & interest free season ticket loans
• Wellbeing support including access to an independent Employer Assistance Scheme, wellbeing champions and access to learning and support resources
• Access to our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability and parents/carers communities
• The opportunity to make a difference; learn more about our social outcomes
  
  

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.

Location(s):

Birmingham, GB London, GB Cambridge, GB

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Market: Water

Discipline: Water

Job Ref: 6837

Recruiter Contact: Sacha Kelly