Senior Quantity Surveyor

About the role

Senior Quantity Surveyor - Balfour Beatty Alliance)

Location: Peterborough (hybrid working, 2-3 days per week in the office)

Balfour Beatty plays a key role as part of Anglian Water's one Alliance. The Alliance is a ground breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and eight industry leading partners: Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. Together we deliver around 40% of Anglian Water's capital investment programme.

Entering AMP 8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period yet, we're taking on nature based, sustainable solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes. We're setting global benchmarks in environmental infrastructure and empowering our people with exceptional career growth opportunities.

We're seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to play a key role in delivering cutting edge solutions for AMP8.

In this role, you will serve as the commercial conscience of the integrated delivery team, ensuring cost control, value maximisation, and risk mitigation while upholding the highest standards of quality and safety. You will also ensure full compliance with Alliance and Anglian Water governance procedures, helping shape the future of sustainable infrastructure.

What you'll be doing

Key responsibilities:

• Lead all aspects of commercial and cost management for assigned projects, supporting the Project Commercial Manager.
• Implement robust cost management processes, ensuring accurate reporting, data analysis, and informed commercial decision making.
• Ensure all project team members understand and adhere to contractual agreements, meeting the expectations of both clients and partner organisations.
• Collaborate with the Delivery Team to identify, implement, and monitor efficiency strategies throughout the project lifecycle.
• Maintain comprehensive financial records, including final accounts, ensuring financial transparency for audits and cost assurance.

Who we're looking for

What we're looking for:

• Proven expertise in cost management and commercial operations within the construction sector.
• A passion for Commercial Management and a drive to deliver excellence.
• Strong leadership and customer service skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• In depth knowledge of construction methodologies, contracts, and safety standards.
• A proactive mindset, comfortable challenging existing processes to enhance commercial outcomes.
• A degree (or equivalent) in engineering, management, or cost disciplines is highly desirable.

Join us and be part of a team that's redefining the future of infrastructure.

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.

Why join us?

We offer a full range of benefits and the freedom to shape a package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.

About us

Balfour Beatty's Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, putting the road user at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and add social value to the communities within which we work.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing an inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit

We are members of WISE, ENEI, the Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audit and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourages 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 also offer applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more information, visit

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at .