About the role

Join our Power Commercial team as a Senior Quantity Surveyor and play a key role in delivering complex, high‑value infrastructure projects.

Balfour Beatty Power is leading the UK’s transition to Net Zero, strengthening Scotland’s energy network and supporting the growth of renewable generation. As part of this once‑in‑a‑generation transformation, we’re expanding our commercial teams and have exciting opportunities to help shape the future energy landscape.

We welcome applicants from any sector with NEC contract experience. Power‑sector background isn’t essential; you’ll gain this through structured training, on‑the‑job learning and strong professional support. If you’re commercially focused and ready to grow, we’ll help you develop deep sector expertise and thrive in the role.

What you'll be doing

Manage project costs, budgets, and income to ensure strong commercial performance.

Identify and manage commercial risks and opportunities across infrastructure projects.

Lead subcontract procurement, negotiation, and contract administration.

Oversee change control processes, including variations and compensation events.

Ensure accurate, timely commercial reporting and forecasting.

Build and maintain effective working relationships with clients, subcontractors, and internal teams.

Drive value for money while maintaining quality and compliance with standards.

Support Project Managers with commercial insights, risks, and opportunities.

Provide commercial leadership across large infrastructure projects or a portfolio of smaller schemes.

Mentor, coach, and develop junior commercial team members.

Proactively pursue personal development, including professional accreditation.

Support adherence to Gated Business Lifecycle processes.

Who we're looking for

BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or experience equivalent.

Membership of RICS, ICES or CIOB (or working towards).

Experience with key contracts such as NEC.

Good communication skills.

Great Teamwork / Role Mode.

Leadership skills.

Achievement Focus (Achieving Results).

Business and Customer Awareness.

Applies organisational aims & objectives.

Identifies with the customer needs.

Recognises opportunities & threats.

Experience working on NEC 3 & 4 Contracts.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Competitive Salary

37.5 hours Monday to Friday

Company DC pension scheme up to 5% EEs & 7% ERs

Company car

Hybrid working

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications

Employee assistance programme

Up to 2 days volunteering per year

About us

Our skilled and dedicated teams deliver a range of proactive and reactive services which support a reliable and safe supply of power flowing to millions of homes and businesses around the world. Our contracts range from 50,000 schemes to 100 million plus major projects.

Balfour Beatty's Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions. With experience and expertise across the full spectrum of the electricity grid our teams have capability across overhead lines, cable tunnels, distribution networks and substations. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support clients in the development of some of the world's most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

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