Senior Quantity Surveyor

Our client is a major design, engineering and project management consultancy who has been rapidly growing within various sectors. They are currently seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join their team in Edinburgh.  

If you join them you'll be part of a team that delivers high-quality expertise, driven not just by success but also by doing what's right. You'll meet colleagues who are as talented as you and ready to support you to 'hit the ground running.' Collaborating with team members, clients, stakeholders, and contractors, you'll also enjoy opportunities to mentor co-workers while progressing your career upwards.  

Your Purpose:  

- 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.

- 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.  

- They have a strong presence in Network Rail and National Highways, and a growing presence in MOD, Nuclear and renewables. Experience in these sectors is desirable.  

- NEC and FIDIC experience are desirable.