Projects Quantity Surveyor
Role Purpose
The Projects Quantity Surveyor will support the successful delivery of installation projects across the UK, ensuring effective commercial management throughout the project lifecycle. Working closely with Project Managers, Engineering teams, Procurement, Subcontractors, and Clients, the role is responsible for protecting profitability, maintaining contractual compliance, managing project costs, and supporting the achievement of business objectives.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
- Provide commercial support throughout the project lifecycle, including pre-contract activities, contract administration, governance, and programme development.
- Manage project cost, value, cash flow, and financial forecasting, ensuring accurate reporting and commercial visibility.
- Monitor project performance through regular commercial reviews, audits, and work-in-progress assessments, supporting monthly reporting requirements.
- Prepare, submit, and negotiate interim valuations, applications for payment, variations, claims, prolongation submissions, and final accounts.
- Identify commercial and contractual risks, implementing mitigation strategies to protect project profitability and business interests.
- Support procurement activities, including sourcing materials, preparing and negotiating subcontract packages, and managing supplier and subcontractor relationships.
- Assess, validate, and certify subcontractor applications, variations, claims, and payments in accordance with contractual obligations.
- Liaise with clients, Project Managers, Engineering teams, and subcontractors to ensure effective communication and successful project delivery.
- Attend client, subcontractor, and site meetings as required, providing commercial guidance and support.
- Conduct post-project commercial reviews, analysing financial performance, margin movement, and lessons learned to drive continuous improvement.
- Support dispute resolution and commercial negotiations with clients, suppliers, and subcontractors where necessary.
Person Specification
Essential
- Previous experience in a Quantity Surveyor, Assistant Quantity Surveyor, or Commercial Management role within construction, engineering, M&E, Fire & Security, or a related industry.
- Strong understanding of commercial management principles, project financial controls, cost reporting, valuations, variations, and final accounts.
- Working knowledge of standard forms of contract including NEC, JCT, ICE, or equivalent.
- Excellent negotiation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong analytical, financial, and organisational abilities with excellent attention to detail.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively within a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and capable of working independently while contributing positively to a wider team.
Desirable
- Degree or equivalent qualification in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
- Membership of, or working towards membership of, a relevant professional body such as RICS or CIOB.
- Experience within the Fire & Security, Building Services, M&E, or wider Construction sectors.
- Knowledge of claims management, commercial recovery, and dispute resolution processes.
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .
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