About the Role
As Senior Quantity Surveyor, you’ll be taking the commercial lead in the delivery of projects, from inception to completion. The role involves working with the Project Team to ensure projects are delivered safely, on time, and to budget, while maintaining high client satisfaction and supporting the development of Assistants and Surveyors.
Responsibilities
- Lead the production and management of cost plans, life cycle costing, cash flow forecasts, and benchmarking using Cost-X, BIM, and relevant data sources.
- Oversee procurement activities, including preparation of tender documentation, bills of quantities, pricing documents, procurement reports, and managing the full tender and evaluation process.
- Manage contract negotiations, prepare and collate contract documents, and act as a key client liaison throughout pre- and post-contract stages.
- Administer contracts as Contract Administrator or Employer’s Agent, including issuing instructions, managing snagging, overseeing practical completion, and post-contract duties.
- Manage post-contract responsibilities such as interim valuations, cost reporting, change control, evaluation of variations, final accounts, and dispute resolution.
- Contribute to and oversee risk registers, value engineering, and value management reporting.
- Support the Associate Director in fee bids, resource and fee management, reporting, and maintaining client relationships.
- Supervise, mentor, and develop Assistant and Quantity Surveyors.
- Ensure accurate and timely updates to internal systems and sign-off of invoices.
- Maintain quality assurance standards and best practice procedures across all projects.
- Uphold health and safety standards and support environmental and social impact.
- Carry out additional duties in line with the role as required.
Requirements
- Ideally Chartered accreditation with previous experience working within the construction industry in a similar discipline.
- Ability to deliver larger and more complex projects through the whole project lifecycle.
- Excellent experience-based technical/project knowledge.
- Ability to delegate tasks to others within the team and support their work.
- Support junior members of the team with mentoring and development.
- Development of leadership and management skills.
- Generate new work through the management of client relations.
- Ability to analyse projects and report performance to line manager.
- Excellent knowledge of internal systems and processes in order to advise and guide others.
- Excellent knowledge of CDM and construction Health & Safety.
Skills
- Cost-X
- BIM
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- Extra paid day off for birthday
- Christmas shutdown
- Option to buy or carry over up to 5 additional holiday days annually
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Enhanced charitable volunteer leave
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Annual salary review
- Company pension scheme
- Private health cover from day one
- Employee Assistance Program
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Access to a wellbeing app
- Access to an online learning platform
- Agile working policy
- Career development opportunities
- Chartership support
- Training opportunities
- Internal recruitment reward scheme
About the Company
- Fulkers Bailey Russell is a construction consultancy focused on making a positive impact, delivering exceptional consultancy services, championing sustainability, and empowering people.
- As a proud B Corp, they are committed to high standards of social and environmental performance.
- They are large enough to lead complex, high-profile projects, yet small enough to genuinely support and care for their employees.
Equal Opportunity
- Fulkers Bailey Russell is dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.
- They promote equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status.
