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Senior Quantity Surveyor

United Kingdom, Huntingdon · Job Posted May 17, 2026
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Right across infrastructure, there's a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you're at in your career, with us you'll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive. Where will you be working? At M Group Highways, we're supporting the safe transportation and movement of people across the UK. We don't just build roads and bridges- we're building a better future, creating lasting social value that gives back to the communities in which we work. You'll be joining our Highways maintenance team, as the UK's number one highway maintenance contractor, our teams use the latest innovations to create effective solutions. We offer a range of services including planned and reactive maintenance and highway improvement schemes.

Job Responsibility

  • Lead commercial management across a portfolio of contracts, ensuring accurate valuations and strong cost control
  • Shape project-level commercial strategy, supporting tender development and supply chain engagement
  • Provide expert commercial advice, manage risk, and act as the escalation point for subcontract, client, and internal issues
  • Oversee valuations, change control, commercial governance, and contractual compliance
  • Manage subcontract procurement, onboarding, agreements, payments, variations, and final accounts
  • Maintain robust cost and financial controls, ensuring accurate reporting of costs, accruals, liabilities, and margins
  • Produce and present CVRs, forecasts, cashflows, WIP, and commercial performance reporting
  • Analyse contract KPIs and SLAs, identifying risks, opportunities, and value impacts
  • Ensure complete, compliant, audit-ready commercial records and registers
  • Support continuous improvement and development of commercial processes and team capability

Requirements

  • Experience in Infrastructure or Construction in a Quantity Surveying role
  • Strong working knowledge of NEC3/NEC4 contract suites
  • Degree in Quantity Surveying or equivalent
  • Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship building skills
  • Excellent Microsoft Excel and commercial data analysis capability
  • RICS or CICES accreditation (or working towards)
  • Experience with FIDIC, JCT or bespoke contract forms
  • Experience mentoring or supervising junior team members
  • Wider exposure to varied project types and commercial environments
  • Strong communication skills for reporting and client engagement

What we offer

  • Matched or contributory pension scheme
  • Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
  • Employee assistance programme
  • My Rewards portal, access to 1000's of retail discounts
  • Life assurance
  • Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
  • Reward and recognition scheme
  • Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
  • Private health care and health care cash plan
  • 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us
  • Holiday purchase scheme
  • Personal Accident Cover

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