Quantity Surveyor
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Overview of Responsibilities
The Quantity Surveyor is a cost and commercial professional responsible for the financial management, cost control, and commercial assurance of complex construction and infrastructure contracts within one or more Integrated Project Teams (IPTs).
The role provides expert quantity surveying advice across the full project lifecycle, from cost planning and procurement through to final account agreement. The post holder ensures robust cost governance, accurate measurement and valuation, effective change control, and proactive commercial risk management, in line with RICS professional standards, organisational governance, and regulatory requirements (including PA23 where applicable).
Accountability 1: Cost Management & Commercial Control
With respect to low value and low complexity contracts and package orders:
- Provide cost management expertise of major construction and infrastructure contracts, ensuring accurate forecasting, budgetary control, and cost assurance.
- Prepare, review, and maintain:
- Cost plans and cost breakdown structures
- Target costs and pain/gain mechanisms
- Forecasts, cashflows, and earned value metrics
- Successfully triage Early Warnings, Compensation Events and other commercial claims
- Ensure costs are managed in line with approved budgets, governance thresholds, and delegated authorities.
Accountability 2: Measurement, Valuation & Change Control
With respect to low value and low complexity contracts and package orders:
- Lead the measurement and valuation of works, including:
- Interim applications for payment
- Assessment of defined cost / compensation events
- Variations, changes, and claims
- Ensure change is properly instructed, valued, negotiated, and recorded in accordance with contractual mechanisms (e.g. NEC).
- Challenge contractor submissions to ensure value for money, robustness, and contractual compliance.
- Agree final accounts and support timely, controlled contract close-out.
Accountability 3: Contract & Procurement Support
With respect to low value and low complexity contracts and package orders:
- Support Lead Quantity Surveyors and Senior Quantity Surveyors with commercial input into procurement strategies for construction and infrastructure works.
- Support commercial negotiations at tender and post-contract stages.
- Ensure contracts are administered in line with agreed terms, governance standards, and regulatory requirements.
Accountability 4: Risk, Claims & Dispute Management
With respect to low value and low complexity contracts and package orders:
- Identify, assess, and manage cost and commercial risks, ensuring mitigation strategies are developed and implemented.
- Support dispute avoidance through early intervention, commercial negotiation, and robust contract administration.
- Provide support to formal dispute resolution processes where required.
Accountability 5: Reporting, Governance & Assurance
With respect to low value and low complexity contracts and package orders:
- Produce and assure high-quality cost and commercial data for inclusion in reporting for senior stakeholders.
- Maintain accurate, auditable cost and contract records in line with organisational and regulatory requirements.
- Support internal and external audits and provide professional commercial assurance.
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in cost management processes, data quality, and reporting discipline.
Accountability 6: Stakeholder Management & Leadership
- Build trusted relationships within the wider Commercial team, Project Managers, Engineers, Finance, and other operational stakeholders.
- Represent the organisation in meetings with contractors and delivery partners.
- Provide mentoring, guidance, and professional oversight to Commercial Analysts, or early-career colleagues.
- Act as a role model for professional integrity, ethical behaviour, and organisational values.
Accountability 7: Embody a Leadership Mindset
Regardless of your formal position, you embody a leadership mindset and a set of leadership behaviours. You embrace and embody our organization’s culture, values, and mission in all aspects of your work.
- Foster a positive and inclusive team environment that aligns with our cultural values.
- Contribute to maintaining a respectful and collaborative workplace, valuing diversity, and promoting teamwork.
- Act as a cultural ambassador, representing our organization’s values and professionalism in interactions with colleagues, clients, and stakeholders.
- Lead by example, demonstrating integrity, professionalism, and ethical behaviour.
- Make informed decisions and solve problems effectively, considering diverse perspectives and organisational goals.
Salary
£40,402 + excellent benefits including outstanding pension
Programme
STEP
Department
UKFE - Commercial and Supply Chain
Discipline
Design
Site Location
West Burton, Nottinghamshire
Type of Employment
Full-time
Reference Number
REF4231I
Qualifications
What Skills and Experience You’ll Bring to Us:
Essential:
- Experience in quantity surveying or cost management on construction, infrastructure projects or similar.
- Understanding of standard forms of contract (e.g. NEC, bespoke construction contracts).
- Demonstrable expertise in cost forecasting, valuation, change control, and final accounts.
- Good analytical, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
Professional Requirements (RICS):
- Degree or equivalent in Quantity Surveying or a related discipline
- Actively working towards Chartered status (MRICS), or already Chartered
- Ability to demonstrate competence aligned to RICS pathways, particularly:
- Commercial Management of Construction
- Construction Technology and Environmental Services
- Contract Practice
- Procurement and Tendering
- Risk Management
Beneficial:
- Experience working in highly regulated or public-sector environments.
- Experience supporting or managing junior quantity surveying staff.
- Familiarity with assurance, governance, and delegated authority frameworks.
Additional Information
We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly women in STEM and individuals from British black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, and people with disabilities. Our Executive team, supported by our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within our organisation. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.
This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions. Whilst not required at this time, there is a possibility of an SC Clearance being required in the future. If a candidate already holds an SC clearance, that clearance can be transferred.
For applicants applying from outside the United Kingdom or those who have spent time outside the UK in the last five years, please refer to government guidance on criminal records checks for overseas applicants. If your country of residence or previous residence is not listed or if the UK Government does not have information on obtaining a criminal records check from that state, applications cannot be processed.
Vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if a large number of applications are received. Applications may be considered for future or similar positions within the organisation.
Benefits
As an employee you will benefit from:
- Outstanding defined benefit pension scheme
- Corporate bonus scheme up to 7% and a Relocation allowance (if eligible)
- Flexible working options including family friendly policies
- Employee Assistance Programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders
- Generous annual leave allowance starting with 25 days, plus 3 days Christmas closure and 2.5 privilege days, in addition to UK bank holidays
- Wide range of career development opportunities
- A vibrant culture committed to equality and being fully inclusive
Company Description
By 2050, the planet could be using twice as much electricity compared to today. Fusion, the process that powers the Sun and stars, is one of the most promising options for generating cleaner, carbon-free energy that our world badly needs.
UKAEA leads the way in realising fusion energy, partnering with industry and research for groundbreaking advancements. Our goal is to bring fusion electricity to the grid, supported by tomorrow's power stations. In pursuit of our mission, UKAEA embraces core values: Innovation, Commitment, Trust, and Collaboration.
We aim to create a workplace that celebrates the diversity of our employees, supporting you to fulfil your potential and encouraging you to bring your authentic self to work. If you want to join a company that cares about you as an individual, take a look at our current vacancies.
Overview of Responsibilities
The Quantity Surveyor is a cost and commercial professional responsible for the financial management, cost control, and commercial assurance of complex construction and infrastructure contracts within one or more Integrated Project Teams (IPTs).
The role provides expert quantity surveying advice across the full project lifecycle, from cost planning and procurement through to final account agreement. The post holder ensures robust cost governance, accurate measurement and valuation, effective change control, and proactive commercial risk management, in line with RICS professional standards, organisational governance, and regulatory requirements (including PA23 where applicable).
Accountability 1: Cost Management & Commercial Control
With respect to low value and low complexity contracts and package orders:
- Provide cost management expertise of major construction and infrastructure contracts, ensuring accurate forecasting, budgetary control, and cost assurance.
- Prepare, review, and maintain:
- Cost plans and cost breakdown structures
- Target costs and pain/gain mechanisms
- Forecasts, cashflows, and earned value metrics
- Successfully triage Early Warnings, Compensation Events and other commercial claims
- Ensure costs are managed in line with approved budgets, governance thresholds, and delegated authorities.
Accountability 2: Measurement, Valuation & Change Control
With respect to low value and low complexity contracts and package orders:
- Lead the measurement and valuation of works, including:
- Interim applications for payment
- Assessment of defined cost / compensation events
- Variations, changes, and claims
- Ensure change is properly instructed, valued, negotiated, and recorded in accordance with contractual mechanisms (e.g. NEC).
- Challenge contractor submissions to ensure value for money, robustness, and contractual compliance.
- Agree final accounts and support timely, controlled contract close-out.
Accountability 3: Contract & Procurement Support
With respect to low value and low complexity contracts and package orders:
- Support Lead Quantity Surveyors and Senior Quantity Surveyors with commercial input into procurement strategies for construction and infrastructure works.
- Support commercial negotiations at tender and post-contract stages.
- Ensure contracts are administered in line with agreed terms, governance standards, and regulatory requirements.
Accountability 4: Risk, Claims & Dispute Management
With respect to low value and low complexity contracts and package orders:
- Identify, assess, and manage cost and commercial risks, ensuring mitigation strategies are developed and implemented.
- Support dispute avoidance through early intervention, commercial negotiation, and robust contract administration.
- Provide support to formal dispute resolution processes where required.
Accountability 5: Reporting, Governance & Assurance
With respect to low value and low complexity contracts and package orders:
- Produce and assure high-quality cost and commercial data for inclusion in reporting for senior stakeholders.
- Maintain accurate, auditable cost and contract records in line with organisational and regulatory requirements.
- Support internal and external audits and provide professional commercial assurance.
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in cost management processes, data quality, and reporting discipline.
Accountability 6: Stakeholder Management & Leadership
- Build trusted relationships within the wider Commercial team, Project Managers, Engineers, Finance, and other operational stakeholders.
- Represent the organisation in meetings with contractors and delivery partners.
- Provide mentoring, guidance, and professional oversight to Commercial Analysts, or early-career colleagues.
- Act as a role model for professional integrity, ethical behaviour, and organisational values.
Accountability 7: Embody a Leadership Mindset
Regardless of your formal position, you embody a leadership mindset and a set of leadership behaviours. You embrace and embody our organization’s culture, values, and mission in all aspects of your work.
- Foster a positive and inclusive team environment that aligns with our cultural values.
- Contribute to maintaining a respectful and collaborative workplace, valuing diversity, and promoting teamwork.
- Act as a cultural ambassador, representing our organization’s values and professionalism in interactions with colleagues, clients, and stakeholders.
- Lead by example, demonstrating integrity, professionalism, and ethical behaviour.
- Make informed decisions and solve problems effectively, considering diverse perspectives and organisational goals.
Salary
£40,402 + excellent benefits including outstanding pension
Programme
STEP
Department
UKFE - Commercial and Supply Chain
Discipline
Design
Site Location
West Burton, Nottinghamshire
Type of Employment
Full-time
Reference Number
REF4231I
Qualifications
What Skills and Experience You’ll Bring to Us:
Essential:
- Experience in quantity surveying or cost management on construction, infrastructure projects or similar.
- Understanding of standard forms of contract (e.g. NEC, bespoke construction contracts).
- Demonstrable expertise in cost forecasting, valuation, change control, and final accounts.
- Good analytical, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
Professional Requirements (RICS):
- Degree or equivalent in Quantity Surveying or a related discipline
- Actively working towards Chartered status (MRICS), or already Chartered
- Ability to demonstrate competence aligned to RICS pathways, particularly:
- Commercial Management of Construction
- Construction Technology and Environmental Services
- Contract Practice
- Procurement and Tendering
- Risk Management
Beneficial:
- Experience working in highly regulated or public-sector environments.
- Experience supporting or managing junior quantity surveying staff.
- Familiarity with assurance, governance, and delegated authority frameworks.
Additional Information
We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly women in STEM and individuals from British black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, and people with disabilities. Our Executive team, supported by our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within our organisation. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.
This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions. Whilst not required at this time, there is a possibility of an SC Clearance being required in the future. If a candidate already holds an SC clearance, that clearance can be transferred.
For applicants applying from outside the United Kingdom or those who have spent time outside the UK in the last five years, please refer to government guidance on criminal records checks for overseas applicants. If your country of residence or previous residence is not listed or if the UK Government does not have information on obtaining a criminal records check from that state, applications cannot be processed.
Vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if a large number of applications are received. Applications may be considered for future or similar positions within the organisation.
Benefits
As an employee you will benefit from:
- Outstanding defined benefit pension scheme
- Corporate bonus scheme up to 7% and a Relocation allowance (if eligible)
- Flexible working options including family friendly policies
- Employee Assistance Programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders
- Generous annual leave allowance starting with 25 days, plus 3 days Christmas closure and 2.5 privilege days, in addition to UK bank holidays
- Wide range of career development opportunities
- A vibrant culture committed to equality and being fully inclusive
Company Description
By 2050, the planet could be using twice as much electricity compared to today. Fusion, the process that powers the Sun and stars, is one of the most promising options for generating cleaner, carbon-free energy that our world badly needs.
UKAEA leads the way in realising fusion energy, partnering with industry and research for groundbreaking advancements. Our goal is to bring fusion electricity to the grid, supported by tomorrow's power stations. In pursuit of our mission, UKAEA embraces core values: Innovation, Commitment, Trust, and Collaboration.
We aim to create a workplace that celebrates the diversity of our employees, supporting you to fulfil your potential and encouraging you to bring your authentic self to work. If you want to join a company that cares about you as an individual, take a look at our current vacancies.
