Quantity Surveyor

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 you'll be working?

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards.  We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

This role will be within our Clean Water Capital Delivery Team - Our teams deliver various schemes from Mains Renewal, Diversions and PMVs all in aid of supporting the UU clean water network.

Want to be a part of it?

What you'll be doing?

You'll sit in Commercial Team on a Framework Contract and will monitor and review the activities of the contract operation to enable the company to meet its commercial objectives and targets. The contract is on our long term Framework with United Utilities undertaking Clean Water Mains Replacement activities.

You'll manage the full commercial lifecycle of projects from pre‑contract through to final account, preparing accurate valuations and applications for payment with full contractual support and compliant documentation. Produce detailed cost reports, forecasts, CVRs, and cashflow summaries, ensuring robust cost control, WIP management, and value capture. Prepare and administer subcontract and procurement schedules, lead subcontract engagement from tender enquiry to final account, and manage supplier accounts, payments, and contract drafting—including professional services agreements.

You'll oversee change management, maintain commercial registers, and identify risks, opportunities, value engineering options, and insurance considerations.

You'll ensure all work is measured in accordance with standard methods and maintain accurate site records and cost allocation coding, foster strong relationships with clients and counterparts, ensuring all work is properly valued and converted to cash.

You'll support operational teams with productivity analysis, ensure compliance with Morrison and client processes, and manage assigned staff in line with company procedures.

You'll participate fully in business meetings, learning and development, and maintain strict adherence to all health, safety, and legislative requirements.

What you'll bring

• Do you have knowledge of the Water and Waste Water Industry?
• Do you have the ability to manage the commercial aspects of complex and long-term contracts of significant value?
• Do you have significant ability in providing commercial expertise to technical specialists?
• Do you have significant experience managing supplier relationships? 
• Do you have a full UK driving license? 

What’s in it for you? 

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• 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
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!

In addition, this role offers;

• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• Private Healthcare - single cover
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Discretionary bonus scheme

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs. 

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3 rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

#MGroupW IND2