Required Skills
Quantity Surveyor
Cost Planning
Estimation
Budget Management
Stakeholder Management
Commercial
Cost Benchmarking
Infrastructure
Job Summary
Our Client, a leading design, engineering, and project management consultancy, is looking for a Quantity Surveyor to join their team in London.
You’ll deliver high-quality expertise on global projects, collaborating with clients, contractors, and stakeholders. The role offers opportunities for career progression, mentoring colleagues, and maintaining high standards in cost management.
Experience
- Familiar with commercial roles and functions for large capital programmes.
- Preferably experienced in UK complex infrastructure sector clients.
- Good communication skills, collaboration and teamwork.
- Good stakeholder management skills and client-facing attributes.
- Data analysis: Good analytical skills and mathematical skills.
- Strong problem-solving capabilities.
- Commercial focus: shaping investment decisions based on value for money of various options.
- Workload planning and prioritisation: providing regular progress reports to keep stakeholders informed.
- Ability to present and prepare outputs easily understood by others, from senior to junior stakeholders.
Job Responsibilities
- Cost planning and estimation across the lifecycle of your projects.
- Producing estimates and budget reviews across a wide range of sectors.
- Collect data, analyse and define the needs of their clients and stakeholders.
- Produce Analysis and Benchmarking Reports that promote value for money, and identify & define trends and cost drivers.
- Ensure reported data is accurate and kept up-to-date.
- Champion innovation within their organisation as well as on the client-side.
- Support/lead tool development that integrates data, dashboards and outputs to represent unit cost analyses.
- Liaise with cross-function teams to develop ideas for continuous improvement.