Quantity Surveyor OR Senior Quantity Surveyor

A leading UK building contractor is looking for a commercially minded Quantity Surveyor to join the team delivering a major project inside a fully operational healthcare facility in Birmingham. The hospital stays open throughout the works, so careful planning, strong stakeholder engagement and sound commercial judgement are central to the role.

The role is open to candidates from either a building or an MEP background. Experience on live or constrained sites is particularly valued, for example hospitals, airports, schools, universities, data centres or manufacturing plants, anywhere construction has had to happen around day-to-day operations.

You'll be part of an established and supportive project team, working closely with operations, design and commercial colleagues. Your job is to protect margin, manage the supply chain and keep the project commercially on track from start to finish.

Key responsibilities

• Take ownership of all commercial matters within your package area, in line with company governance, processes and digital systems

• Measure and value works under the contract, and produce cost reconciliations and cost/value reports

• Prepare Bills of Quantities, schedules of rates and first-principles estimates from drawings and specifications

• Track progress against weekly and monthly programmes alongside the delivery team, keeping commercial activity aligned with key milestones

• Administer subcontract accounts from measurement and valuation of applications through to final account agreement

• Support procurement by preparing tender packages, analysing subcontract returns and helping to appoint specialist contractors

• Manage client and stakeholder relationships within your area, balancing commercial outcomes with client expectations

• Identify and manage commercial risk and opportunity, including change, delay and disruption

• Keep disruption to the hospital's operations to a minimum while maintaining cost control, value and quality on both MEP and building packages

What you'll bring

• A degree in Quantity Surveying (BSc/MSc), or equivalent commercial experience gained in construction, building services or MEP

• A track record as a QS on major projects, ideally in live or operational environments

• Strong commercial delivery experience on building and/or MEP packages, covering cost control, value management, subcontract administration and procurement

• Sound knowledge of standard forms of contract, commercial reporting, change control, and delay and disruption

• The ability to build good working relationships with clients, subcontractors and project teams in a high-profile, customer-facing setting

• Confidence using digital commercial systems and analysing cost and value data

• A clear understanding of what it takes to deliver safely in a live environment, including operational constraints, business continuity and stakeholder management

• A CSCS card (Academically or Professionally Qualified Person) or equivalent

• Chartered status (MRICS, MCIOB or MCInstCES), or currently working towards it

• A proactive, detail-focused approach, strong communication skills and the ambition to keep progressing your career

What's on offer

• Flexible working, including staggered hours and up to 40% remote working where the role allows

• 25 days' annual leave

• Enhanced family-friendly policies: 28 weeks' full pay for maternity/adoption leave and 4 weeks' full pay for paternity/partner leave

• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave and recognition schemes

Interested?

To find out more in confidence, get in touch with Jon at Pinnacle for an informal conversation