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project quantity surveyor.
Project Quantity Surveyor.
Ref: V-70146
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location.
Basingstoke
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salary.
Competitive
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type.
Permanent
job description.
Job Description – Quantity SurveyorLocation: Basingstoke, UK (role base remains Basingstoke)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Salary : £65 - £75k Package
Overview
We are seeking a skilled Quantity Surveyor, ideally with heavy-groundworks and civil-engineering experience, to manage the commercial and contractual aspects of major construction projects across industrial, commercial and built-environment developments. You will support cost control, procurement, forecasting and subcontract management while working closely with project teams to ensure effective, compliant delivery.
Featured Project
We are working on a high-profile assignment at Atom Valley — the new Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing Centre (SMMC). This 43,500 sq ft innovation-hub will support sustainable materials research and advanced manufacturing. Construction Enquirer 2The Irish Post 2
The centre includes light-industrial / workshop spaces, office and breakout areas, a social café, lecture/theatre space, as well as external works (service yard, landscaping, parking). The Irish Post 1
This project typifies the type of complex, mixed-use industrial/innovation-hub schemes you will be exposed to as QS — combining early-stage civil/groundworks, MEP, shell & core, and fit-out disciplines.
Qualifications & Skills
- Bachelor’s degree, HND, or equivalent qualification in Quantity Surveying
- Proven experience working on heavy groundworks, civil engineering or substructure/works packages
- Strong technical writing and reporting abilities
- Ability to communicate complex technical information clearly
- Experience working on industrial, commercial, or innovation-hub / mixed-use built-environment projects
- Proficiency with surveying forms, documentation, and project management / cost control systems
Key Responsibilities
Commercial & Financial Management
- Prepare and manage project cost plans, forecasts, and commercial reports
- Measure, price, negotiate and agree budgets and variations, particularly for groundworks, civil, substructure and structural packages
- Manage valuations and payment notices in accordance with contract dates and payment terms
- Complete subcontractor liabilities for forecasting and financial reporting
- Undertake external client valuations, ensuring value maximisation
- Prepare initial and monthly cost/revenue forecasts and support external reporting for project progress
- Follow project procurement schedules for timely procurement of subcontractor packages
- Issue and manage subcontractor enquiries — especially for civil, groundworks, structural and MEP / substructure packages
- Evaluate subcontractor quotations and prepare comparisons and recommendations for senior review
- Conduct Technical Review Meetings (TRMs) with the operations team for subcontractor orders
- Draft accurate subcontract orders for approval
- Maintain accurate on-site records, photographs and documentation
- Liaise with site teams to prepare labour allocation sheets
- Lead or contribute to design coordination and project meetings (including groundworks, structural, MEP, design-team, progress meetings)
- Ensure main contract compliance and manage design adherence, recording variations where required
- Maintain collateral warranty schedules
- Support, mentor or supervise Trainee / Assistant Quantity Surveyors as required
Benefits (customisable)
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Loyalty leave scheme
- Pension contribution scheme
- Wellbeing support
- Mobile phone allowance
- Early Friday finish / dress-down Fridays
- Health care and life insurance
- Company social events (summer & Christmas)
- Monthly team breakfasts & regular team-building activities
- Refer-a-friend incentive
- Cycle-to-work scheme
