Job Title: Senior Quantity Surveyor
Location: Warrington, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: £60,- £70, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Quantity Surveyor.
The role
As a Senior Quantity Surveyor you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. The Senior Quantity Surveyor will work with key internal stakeholders, client and suppliers/subcontractors to drive both strategic value and operational excellence through all levels of the business.
Day-to-day, you’ll:
1. Provide commercial management and support to Q.S.’s as may be applicable for each project / contract along with providing commercial support and expertise to projects being responsible for a range of commercial activities (bid governance, reviews, change management, compensation event contractual notices, etc.)
2. Undertake internal compliance, liaising with the relevant Head of Commercial and customers as required as well as supporting Commercial Managers with all commercial aspects on the project.
3. Gain a full understanding of the head contract terms and conditions and how this flow down to the Subcontract supply chain and proactively ensure contract compliance exists and proposes and monitors correction plans to ensure any non-compliance is eliminated.
4. Construct and deliver a robust procurement project plan that delivers the objectives of the project, ensuring the deadline and budget are met and that the necessary communications and risk mitigations are in place
5. Ensure disallowed costs are at an absolute minimum as well as enhancing and utilising sourcing and tendering processes that meet and exceed project /programme deliverables
6. Manage the post contract commercial management of subcontracts during project execution phases and mitigating the business exposure to subcontractor claims
7. Ensure all Supplier / Subcontractor compensation events / claims are adequately justified, rationally explained, and recorded to support potential head contract CE’s / variations and sustain audit both externally and internally.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Senior Quantity Surveyor:
8. Educated to degree level (or equivalent) in Building Services Quantity Surveying or have a general degree in Quantity Surveying
9. Significant experience in a Quantity Surveying role
10. Experience in managing business stakeholders to meet milestones and deliverables
11. Good understanding of day to day commercial administration in the Engineering and Construction industries
12. Experience in managing multiple projects at any given time
13. Evidence of delivering on accountabilities and driving the commercial agenda
14. Experience in delivering to project commercial strategy, and to delivering on large and complex contracts and bids
15. Experience in supporting large-scale projects and complex change initiatives using appropriate methodologies
16. Excellent NEC3 skills
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (
What we offer
17. Generous holiday allowance
18. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
19. Employee share scheme
20. Employee shopping savings portal
21. Payment of Professional Fees
22. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
23. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one
24. working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
25. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
26. Opportunity to work with innovative technology.
27. Growth opportunities.
Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of