Location: Scotland | Contract Type: Permanent | Working Pattern: Full-Time | Office Based
Pay / Benefits: Remuneration for this role is benchmarked competitively within our sector.
OCU is delivering major electrical infrastructure, substation, and grid connection projects across the UK, helping to support the country's evolving energy network. As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll play a key role in managing the commercial performance of these projects, ensuring strong cost control, contractual compliance, and successful financial outcomes throughout the project lifecycle.
This is an opportunity to take ownership of complex NEC contracts, influence commercial strategy, and work closely with operational and client teams on nationally significant infrastructure projects. If you're looking to develop your career within a fast-growing organisation and make a meaningful impact on project success, we'd like to hear from you.
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Lead commercial activities across multiple infrastructure and power projects from tender stage through to final account.
- Manage NEC3 and NEC4 contracts, including Early Warning Notices, Compensation Events, and contractual change management.
- Drive cost control, forecasting, budgeting, and financial reporting to support project performance.
- Prepare, negotiate, and agree subcontract packages, variations, and final accounts.
- Build strong relationships with clients, operational teams, and supply chain partners.
- Identify commercial risks and opportunities, implementing strategies to protect and enhance project outcomes.
- Produce accurate cost reports and commercial forecasts for senior stakeholders.
- Support and mentor junior commercial team members, helping to develop capability across the function.
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Proven experience operating as a Quantity Surveyor or Senior Quantity Surveyor within utilities, power, infrastructure, construction, or civil engineering environments.
- Strong experience managing NEC3 and NEC4 contracts, particularly Option C arrangements.
- Excellent understanding of cost management, forecasting, budgeting, and commercial reporting.
- Strong commercial awareness and financial acumen.
- Experience managing subcontract procurement, commercial negotiations, and final accounts.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities effectively.
- Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, or a related discipline.
- Bonus if you are professionally accredited with RICS, CICES, or a similar professional body.
- It would be great if you have experience working on electrical infrastructure, substation, or energy projects.
- It would be great if you've worked within framework agreements or regulated utility environments.
- Experience supporting or mentoring junior commercial professionals would be advantageous.
At OCU, we believe that meaningful work should come with meaningful support. That's the principle behind Careers with Purpose, our commitment to ensuring every person at OCU feels supported, developed, and valued, not just in their role today, but throughout their career with us.
Alongside the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects, we offer a benefits package that we are continuing to develop as we grow, and the kind of career acceleration that only comes from being inside a business moving at this pace.
As a rapidly growing organisation, there are genuine opportunities to progress, broaden your experience, and build a long-term career within OCU Group.
For a confidential conversation about this opportunity, please contact
Jonathan Bryden at
[email protected].
Our vacancies are typically advertised for two weeks; however, we reserve the right to close applications early should we receive a sufficient number of suitable candidates. We therefore encourage early applications.
At OCU Group, we don’t just deliver infrastructure - we help power modern life.
As one of the UK’s fastest-growing utility and infrastructure businesses, we deliver complex, nationally critical projects across power, energy transition, water, telecoms, and digital infrastructure. Over the last five years, OCU has grown five-fold to a £1.1bn organisation, expanding both organically and through strategic acquisitions across the UK, Australia, New Zealand and India.
Our growth is driven by ambitious people, operational excellence, and a commitment to doing things properly. We work on projects that genuinely matter by supporting the UK’s energy transition, strengthening essential infrastructure, and helping build more sustainable communities for the future.
Whether you’re an experienced professional looking to take ownership of major projects and influence delivery at scale, or someone starting your career through an apprenticeship, graduate programme, or placement route, OCU offers real opportunity to grow, develop, and make an impact.
We are building a business where high performance, collaboration, innovation, and accountability sit at the centre of our culture. Our people are trusted to lead, encouraged to challenge thinking, and supported to continuously develop their skills and careers.
At OCU, you won’t just join a growing business, you’ll help shape it.
Our Culture & Values
At OCU, our values are at the heart of everything we do. We care about safety, lead with integrity, strive to be better every day, make a positive impact, and deliver to grow, together, as One Company United.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At OCU Group, we believe diversity, inclusion, and belonging are fundamental to building stronger teams, better ideas, and a more successful business. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels valued and supported.
As part of our commitment to fairness and equality, candidates may be asked to complete an equal opportunities monitoring form during the recruitment process. This information is used for monitoring purposes only and plays no part in hiring decisions.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and are committed to offering interviews to candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions who meet the essential criteria for the role.
To ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to join our team, please inform us if you require any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment and interview process is, by emailing
[email protected].
