Senior Quantity Surveyor

Our client, a specialist contractor delivering complex infrastructure and engineering projects, is seeking an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor to join their team on a major project. Key Responsibilities for Senior Quantity Surveyor: * Produce accurate and timely cost, value, and cash flow reports at both project and business levels. * Manage cost control activities, including forecasting, performance tracking, and variance analysis against actuals. * Maintain and update monthly cost-to-complete reports, commercial plans, and rolling final accounts, taking shared accountability for overall commercial performance. * Monitor and report on applications, early warnings, change events, quotations, claims, and disputes, providing clear visibility of project commercial status. * Ensure commercial and contractual processes are followed and continuously improved across the project and internal teams. * Lead subcontract procurement activities, including tendering, negotiation, financial administration, and timely assessment and payment of supply chain and consultant liabilities. * Identify, assess, and mitigate commercial and contractual risks within main contracts and supply chain agreements. * Build and maintain effective working relationships with clients, stakeholders, and the wider project team, including managing challenging commercial discussions when required. * Support and supervise junior commercial team members, providing guidance, mentoring, and day-to-day oversight. * Promote collaboration between commercial, finance, procurement, design, engineering, and site delivery teams. * Share knowledge, best practice, and lessons learned across projects to drive consistency and efficiency within the business. Key Requirements for Senior Quantity Surveyor: * Proven ability to deliver accurate and timely monthly valuations, forecasts, and final accounts. * Strong understanding of change management processes, including early warnings, variations, compensation events, and claims. * Ability to maintain contract re-measurement in line with agreed methodologies and commercial controls. * Demonstrated capability in managing rolling final accounts and monitoring shared or financial risks. * Confidence to positively challenge project delivery strategies, methodologies, resource levels, and cost assumptions. * Strong organisational skills with the ability to meet deadlines aligned to monthly commercial reporting cycles. * Effective communication skills to manage internal and external relationships at all levels